Agreed with Judy to have her prepare a mockup of the WS dept site within the UVic templates (or a version of them), and asked LP to provide us the following information before we could proceed:

We need to know what overall organization of the content you'd like and how you'd like the navigation system presented to the user:
Here's an example off the top of my head: you might have top-level headings "home" "department", "community", "students" and then secondary items for each of those:
Home
Welcome
Department
Women's Studies at UVic
People in the Department
Current Job Postings
Events
The Logo Story
Community
What is Women's Studies?
Resources for Women
Fab Feminist Quotes & Links
Alumnae Survey
Keep in Touch
Support Women's Studies
Students
What can I do with a Women's Studies degree?
Programs and Course Offerings
Current Schedule
UVic Women's Studies Students talk about Women's Studies
Financial Aid
The Humanities, Fine Arts and Professional Writing Co-op
Tips for Applying to Grad School

Also identified issues that need further discussion:
> 1. Could we create a space that could handle videos?

In principle, yes. In practice, we'd have to agree on how the videos are
to be formatted, sized, encoded etc. How many videos do you imagine
accommodating?

> 2. Would we need to set aside part of our budget for annual
updates/maintenance to the site?

You will not pay for any work the HCMC does. If you decide to hire a
contractor to add features or do maintenance beyond what your own staff of the HCMC provide, then you'll have to pay for that.

> 3. We would like to create a page for equity and outreach
committee which is run by students - could they have the ability to
update their own page as they see fit since it will be a living document?

Whenever you start talking about allowing people to add or modify
content on a site, things start to get complicated. We can probably
accommodate this capability, but we'll need to discuss further exactly
who will be entitled to edit this content and what range of changes
they're entitled to make.

> 4. We would like to create an alumni page in which people can
submit their own updates and it will automatically post, as well as a
donations page/link.

Again, there's a security issue around allowing agents (be they legitimate posters, vandals, spambots, or your pet dog) to submit material to a website and simply popping it up there. Not impossible, but we'll need to talk about exactly what kind of capabilities you're imagining and who'll be entitled to make use of them.

> 5. We need to redo the faculty bios - we have something in mind
like how poli sci is doing theirs (see
http://web.uvic.ca/polisci/people/faculty/

The table-oriented setup used by polisci is no problem. In general, for
faculty bios there are a number of chunks of information you might include for each person: name, degrees, contact, research interests, bio, office hours, courses taught, publications. Your current site includes name, contact and research interests. The polisci
entries include quite a bit more info on each person. Which chunks do
you wish to include for your new site?

> 6. Did you figure out the code for the English courses listing?

In a word, No. It's written by a private company and is not accessible
(as far as I know). The amount of work to re-engineer that is
considerable. I've been talking with the central computing people and
they are planning to produce such a widget as part of a larger project
due for release by end of 2010. So I doubt we'll be able to implement
that right now. We'll need to talk about what we can do in the meantime.

> 7. We would like to keep our logo on the main page.

No problem. It can't go in the banner at the top of the page, but can go
anywhere else. You may want to include a smaller version of the logo (or
a rotated version) on the pages other than the home page.

> 8. We would like to have an events calendar modeled after one
on the Greek and Roman studies site.

Yep. It would require that you use the university's centralized events
calendar system to enter the information for your events. Your
department already has an account on that system.