http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/department-web-pages/ life, life in science, miscellaneous thoughts Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:08:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/department-web-pages/#comment-238 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:45:01 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/department-web-pages/#comment-238 Lab Lemming, are you kidding? That one isn't bad at all. Sadly, I can't send you the ones I'm thinking of as examples without outing myself. Let's just say that sites that list professor's webpages with vastly out of date reference lists and absolutely no lab webpages listing postdocs and grad students contact info... not good. I liked what Zuska had to say about webpages. I don't know how much you can tell about a department from its webpage though. Isn't it basically just the handiwork of whoever they pay to be webmaster? Seems to me website personality is always in the hands of the creator, and appearance often says even more about them than content. Lab Lemming, are you kidding? That one isn’t bad at all. Sadly, I can’t send you the ones I’m thinking of as examples without outing myself. Let’s just say that sites that list professor’s webpages with vastly out of date reference lists and absolutely no lab webpages listing postdocs and grad students contact info… not good.
I liked what Zuska had to say about webpages. I don’t know how much you can tell about a department from its webpage though. Isn’t it basically just the handiwork of whoever they pay to be webmaster? Seems to me website personality is always in the hands of the creator, and appearance often says even more about them than content.

]]> http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/department-web-pages/#comment-225 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:04:53 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/department-web-pages/#comment-225 A department that I graduated from recently revamped their website and they now include photos and contact info for everyone in the department including faculty, research staff, postdocs, graduate students, and administrative staff. It makes it pretty easy to match names to faces and easier to get in contact with someone that you were talking to in the hall (or at a conference) even if you aren't sure exactly what the person's name is or if you know the first name but not the last. A department that I graduated from recently revamped their website and they now include photos and contact info for everyone in the department including faculty, research staff, postdocs, graduate students, and administrative staff. It makes it pretty easy to match names to faces and easier to get in contact with someone that you were talking to in the hall (or at a conference) even if you aren’t sure exactly what the person’s name is or if you know the first name but not the last.

]]> http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/department-web-pages/#comment-224 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:12:47 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/department-web-pages/#comment-224 I dare you to find a North American department that is worse than this: http://wwwdsa.uqac.ca/ I dare you to find a North American department that is worse than this:
http://wwwdsa.uqac.ca/

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