Emergent Future

The Husky Game Development website has had a long history of being fairly drab, useless, hard to update, hard to maintain, and horribly out of date. During my time at the Enterprise, I worked hard to change quite a bit within it. I revised how we handled documentation, I did what I could to start turning the internal idea of being a 'computer science enterprise' into a 'multi-discipline enterprise'. However, there was always one nagging issue that never got fixed, even after bringing aboard a webmaster: the website was just not so good. So, when I came back for my final semester, I was pleased to see a new team was being created: the web development team. Wasting no time, I volunteered to lead this new team to build a new, better, easier to maintain website. The main focus of the new site was in several areas:

• Greater intigration and unification. There would be a single look for the entire website and there would be online one login that would be shared between the site, the forums, the wiki, and our file servers.
• Easier to maintain. The site can be updated very easily now that we are using the Joomla! Content Management System, and anyone could do the updating, even with no prior web programming knowledge.
• Greater internal use. We focused more heavily on maintaining a useful wiki, as well as other ways of sharing information and ideas within the enterprise through the website.
• Greater external presence. Another major issue was our image to the outside. This new site was to bring in a new image that would hold the enterprise in a better light and for visitors to find more information about the enterprise easier than in the past.