REU/SEU website

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REU/SEU website

• Lessons learned, experiences and challenges
• Ildiko Pocza, Information Resources and Library
  Clerk, FAO REU

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Why new REU site?

• Common look and feel
• Common technical support
• Easy navigation
• Easy maintenance

All similarities with AgroWeb and ESCORENA are
deliberate!
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• Advantages

• Challenges

• Separation of design, structure, and content
• Sharing best practices
• Access to style sheets and other elements in the
  design part
• Shared or separate file storages
• Good connectivity

• Separation of design, structure, and content
• Decentralized maintenance
• Consistency
• Cooperation

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Design versus content

• Existing sites (different technical solutions)
• Do not recreate outdated content
• Update your records
• Disconnection of outdated pages or sites
• New sites starting from scratch
• Exclude or hide pages with not yet available
  content (under construction, etc)
• Collect and publish missing data

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Back and now 1.
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Back and now 2.
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Suggestions

• Clear communication of css and other useful
  design elements
• Shared separated storage folders
• Share best practices
• E-mail lists for different user groups

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Oh I get by with a little help from my
friends,Mmm, I get high with a little help from
my friends,Mmm, I'm gonna try with a little help
from my friends.(The Beatles)
Thank you for the attention and for your help and
cooperation.