I made a number of websites for my office at UofT from 2008-2013. It was not because I was a web developer, but because (a) the department website was so awful I couldn't stand it and (b) often what I worked with was best communicated to the community at large via websites. The web info can be exhaustive, standardized and is easy to update, and so works well in an academic environment which typically (a) has little infrastructure for customer service and (b) has a fair disconnect between the admin which services the academic community and the professors / users
OSM / ACE
Display Platforms
Con Hall
Design Standards
Component Database
*** some of these sites may have been removed or altered since I built them; since 2013 I am no longer a UofT website administrator.
The best sites are likely the TSJr site (most recent) and the Teaching Station simulator, which uses some of my earlier quite crude code but works quite well (IMO):
Control Simulator
TSJr
The OSM / ACE site is quite conventional because it had the largest user base and we wanted to keep it very familiar looking and quite obvious in its menu system for faculty users who may have fewer computer skills.
Con Hall needed a website because of the myriad questions about rental and use and because of a staff reduction there. The TSJr site I made basically of my own volition, as the device itself was to a degree 'my baby'. I was the designer on the development committee and so I made the website to help the users familiarize themselves with this new classroom AV control system before the start of classes. I wanted the device be part of a fuller service to the teaching community, and not simply another device foisted on them as if it were a one-way interaction.
OSM / ACE
Display Platforms
Con Hall
Design Standards
Component Database
*** some of these sites may have been removed or altered since I built them; since 2013 I am no longer a UofT website administrator.
The best sites are likely the TSJr site (most recent) and the Teaching Station simulator, which uses some of my earlier quite crude code but works quite well (IMO):
Control Simulator
TSJr
The OSM / ACE site is quite conventional because it had the largest user base and we wanted to keep it very familiar looking and quite obvious in its menu system for faculty users who may have fewer computer skills.
Con Hall needed a website because of the myriad questions about rental and use and because of a staff reduction there. The TSJr site I made basically of my own volition, as the device itself was to a degree 'my baby'. I was the designer on the development committee and so I made the website to help the users familiarize themselves with this new classroom AV control system before the start of classes. I wanted the device be part of a fuller service to the teaching community, and not simply another device foisted on them as if it were a one-way interaction.
