Otago ITS Departmental Website
Posted by Anton at January 14th, 2007
Information Technology Services look after all the computers, lecture theatres, network, telephones, printery and a myriad of other operational details at the University of Otago.
Their website had stalled since its first incarnation back in the late 90’s and one of my first jobs was to get it in some sort of shape. Many, many meetings later I had a navigational structure based on services, not the byzantine organizational structure ITS adopts, as well as a nice design done by the University Web Office. The final icing was a notices page built by one of my colleagues, Geoff Hughes.
It took a year to implement after 4 or 5 years of lying stale, and it gets a lot of traffic from the local IT people as the first place to go when there are general network or IT problems. I manage about 4 or 5 separate editors looking after different parts of the site on a few hundred pages, using Mint as a back-end logging program as the Universities logging efforts are nto really up to commercial scratch.
The next step will be to roll the whole thing into a CMS. I wonder if WordPress will do it? 
