Midwestern State University

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Midwestern State University

• Designing a Web Site for VOICES

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VOICES

• Overview
• Purpose Audience analysis
• Site Management
• Site Content
• Site Design

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Audience and Purpose

• Campus- students browse for pleasure, seek
  submission information
• High School- teachers/students browse for
  pleasure, seek submission information
• Viewing Public- important as recruiting tool

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Publication Management

• Student Editors serve one year as Assistant
  Editor, one year as Editor
• Faculty Advisors Gary Goldberg, Art Sue
  Henson, Literature
• Pre-publication Angie Lewis, MSU Press

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Site Management

• Oversight by University Assistant Webmaster, Adam
  Chavez
• Updates by student editors
• Oversight of Web site and Forum, Sue Henson

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Essential Content

• Instructions for submission
• Cover sheet
• Criteria process for selection
• Email submission link
• Contact Information

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Additional Content

• Mission statement
• High School entry information
• Application for editor /volunteer for jury panel
• Issue archives
• Link to English Department

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Optional Content

• Resources
• Short Stories East of the Web
• Writing/ Publishing Links
• Tips from Jim Hoggard, Texas Poet Laureate)
• Poetry Board (Continuous Poetry/Chat)
• Search Feature

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Technical Issues

• Use form for cover sheet Adam will write using
  CGI (more difficult to troubleshoot, manage
  JavaScript)
• Use forum set-up from Honors Program for
  Writers Forum
• Save files as .asp rather than .html convert
  PDFs to web pages, zip files, send to Adam to
  upload

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More Technical Issues

• File Formats Files come from print shop as PDFs,
  but web pages are smaller, more flexible
• Files for archives can be uploaded only one at a
  time, limit of 3Mg
• Only 2004 and 2005 issues are digitized must
  scan older issues
• Organize sequentially or by genre?

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Design Considerations
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Design Options
Background 2
Cover Art
Background 1
Image Map
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VOICES Magazine
English

• Information

Editors

• Archives

• Poetry Blog

Advisor
VOICES Email

• Ask an Expert

Design Option 1 Light background, MSU banner,
image map
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VOICES Magazine
English

• Information

Editors

• Archives

• Poetry Blog

Advisor
VOICES Email

• Ask an Expert

Design Option 2 Image background for content
area, MSU banner, image map
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VOICES Magazine
English

• Information

Editors

• Archives

• Poetry Blog

Advisor
VOICES Email

• Ask an Expert

Design Option 3 Image background for whole
page, MSU banner, image map
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VOICES Magazine
Contact
English
Editors Elizabeth Hawley Jason York
Advisor Sue Henson
VOICES voices_at_mwsu.edu
Design Option 4 Image background for whole
page, MSU banner, image and links
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VOICES MSU Student Literary and Artistic Magazine
Contact
English Home

• Information

Editors Elizabeth Hawley Jason York

• Writers Resources

• Writers Forum

Advisor Sue Henson

• Archives

"This is the Wheel of Dreams Which is carried
on their voices, By means of which their voices
turn And center upon being." N.Scott Momaday
VOICES voices_at_mwsu.edu
Design Choice Image background for whole page,
image and links, omit MSU banner. Home page view.
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VOICESMSU Student Literary and Artistic Magazine
Contact Us

• Information

English

• How to Submit
• Cover Sheet
• Selection Guidelines
• Application for Editor
• High School Entry Information

Editors Elizabeth Hawley Jason York
Advisor Sue Henson
VOICES voices_at_mwsu.edu
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VOICESMSU Student Literary and Artistic Magazine
Contact

• Writers Forum

English
Add an entry to the poetry corner, share your
ideas about writing, or post a question.
Editors Elizabeth Hawley Jason York
http//libarts.mwsu.edu/english/voices/forum/
Advisor Sue Henson
VOICES voices_at_mwsu.edu
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VOICESMSU Student Literary and Artistic Magazine
Contact

• Writers Resources

English

• Texas Poet Laureate
• Jim Hoggard on writing

Editors Elizabeth Hawley Jason York

• Helpful Links
• Short Stories East of the Web
• Representative Poetry Online
• Writers Resources
• Twenty Writing Tools
• Cool Quiz Trivia, Games more

Advisor Sue Henson
VOICES voices_at_mwsu.edu
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VOICESMSU Student Literary and Artistic Magazine
Contact Us

• Archives

English
Editors Elizabeth Hawley Jason York
Advisor Sue Henson
2005
VOICES
voices_at_mwsu.edu