This is the plan for History to move to the new templates:

The freeze of the current site will happen on May 9. This has been scheduled by JS, but we should check live publishing is in fact turned off before we start editing.

The site is scheduled to go live again on June 6.

Things to be done before the freeze:

• Change course codes from HIST to HSTR (TG).
• Update winter schedule (TG).
• Update contact info and add new page and info for incoming new prof (TG).
• Remove office hours (TG).
• Add a Field School page under Current Students (TG).
• Correct all existing titles and captions to sentence case (TG).
• Add keywords to all pages (if possible, globally) (MDH).
• Write headings/captions for future images, to save time later, and identify where banner images will link to (the "Read more" link) (TG).
• Investigate the possibility of scripting a scrape of the Banner course information to create source code for Courses pages that can be pasted into Cascade (MDH).
• Investigate ways to make the Twitter feed more active (TG).
• current-students/graduate landing page: break up the content with headings (GT).
• current-students/graduate/degrees-completed: This should be moved to future-students/graduate, or perhaps mirrored there (TG).

Notes on specific pages from our discussions:

• Home page:
  • 3 big buttons, identical to French.
  • Banner with rotating images.
  • 2 sentences of "Why study...".
  • 2 column-boxes, one for undergrad nd one for grad.
  • A tab control with tabs for YouTube (main tab with video), Facebook and Twitter.
• fhome/why-history-is-crucial: recycle content to elsewhere. Take a one-sentence quote for the home page (see www.uvic.ca/anth).
• future-students/undergraduate/careers-in-history: sentence case for title; table of job areas might be converted into a multi-column box with no outline.
• Course pages: use expanding boxes sorted into levels as on the anth site.
• home/offic-hours: MH to set up a block for office hours as a div, for each fac member's page, and then set up a block containing all of those blocks; the latter may be able to use CSS display: table-row etc. to show the aggregated office hours content as a table.
• future-students/undergraduate/awards-scholarships-undergrad: Use accordions for the three scholarships.
• Faculty page: MH and TG to liaise with Systems through JS to arrange the creation of a search-and-filter widget to supercede the existing error-prone duplication of content. This will likely cost money.
• current-students landing page: Add a banner and some content from the chair's letter, and move the video down the page.
• current-students/undergraduate/research: definitely needs a picture.
• current-students/undergraduate/find-your-professor: MH to investigate creating this as a block. Perhaps the Office Hours block described above can be designed to fill both purposes.
• current-students/coop-and-career: Get a copy of the picture used on the Coop site, which features a History student, in uncropped format, and re-use it.