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Well we just wrapped up the "Organizational Information Gathering" (OIG) sessions and phase of the portal project.  What is OIG?  A fancy way of saying that we wanted to know what was important to you.  Easy enough, huh?

So if it wasn't already obvious, this is a fairly complex process.  We began planning and initial preparations back in December 2007, and we're usually meeting or participating in a conference call three or four days of the week.  The entire portal implementation from start to finish is expected to take around eight to ten months.

For those that haven't heard, YC has purchased a new portal product called Luminis.  We're excited to be working on this new project and think that the College community will find it to be of significant value - whether you're a staff member, faculty, or student.

 Let's address some of the questions that have been asked so far:

In case you didn't notice, almost a year ago we eliminated the necessity to use the "2" in our web address (e.g. http://www2.yc.edu is now just http://www.yc.edu).

Why is this news? Well it means that (a year ago) we finally were able to move the Lotus Notes web server out of production. It represents one of the final steps in moving to a fully-dynamic, self-maintainable web infrastructure.

Do you ever get tired of typing in some insanely-long web site address? Something like http://www2.yc.edu/content/its/webservices/projects/current-projects/this-is-a-really-long-page-title-that-doesn't-exist-in-real-life.htm?

Well even if you don't, your students, parents, community members, vendors, and anyone else browsing your web site most certainly do.

We can help! Just send $24.95 in a self-addressed stamped envelope to Box 6004 and we'll extend the life of your keyboard and delay the onset of carpal-tunnel syndrome for a little while longer.

Maybe we should go ahead and change that to "bi-weekly"...

This new blog format will take over for the emails that were sent out to web authors in the past. Why? Because we almost certainly missed some web authors in our earlier emails, those that did receive the email may not have needed to receive it, and we may have included information relevant to non-web authors who would have never had the opportunity to see it.