UNC-CH COMP 523

Project Website

The web site is to be the repository of all project materials. While you may use it to keep track of early drafts of documents, it is only necessary to keep the latest, most current version.

You may build your own web site or use any existing tools. I strongly recommend using an existing tool and infrastructure. Why? You have plenty of work to do and don't really need to build a web site. Tools that have been used for the web site include

If at all possible, I prefer that the site be hosted on the UNC Wordpress space. In this way, your project information will be archived. If you have a reason to use some other tech, please discuss it with me. I will get the site URL from you (by email) and make that a link on the team page so we can all see the progress of your project as the semester progresses.

You should consult with your client to assure that is alright for them. (They may have a site that they want you to use or be concerned about public availability.) You simply need to identify the url. If you are using a system that requires login to post to, the professor must be a registered user. It is the simplest way to give you feedback and assures that I have appropriate access.

For most of you, this will be a public website and you need to be considerate of such use. If there are confidentiality issues with a client or subjects, they need to be honored on this site. The contents and appearance of the web site reflect on your team, on the class, and on the university. Do not post anything that you do not want the world to see. This is also the place that you can share design, code, and techniques with other teams. This is a living document and needs to be kept up to date. Feel free to put anything out on the web site that helps the team. Specific elements required on the web site are as follows. They are listed in the approximate order that they will be added. The first 4 items and the behavioral team rules are to be posted when the site is established.

Make your site as shallow as practical. We want to find the information we need to see with few clicks... preferably one. We don't want to have to click-click-click down deep to get to items that we reference frequently.