Developing the SEPT website

John Howe

Developing the SEPT website

At the SEPT meeting in Argentina it was agreed to engage Hodsons to produce a new website:

• Completed May 2011

• Hosted in the UK by Hodsons

• Cost £5,940 (with 1 year hosting)

Developing the SEPT website

Primary aims of the new website are:

• Search engine optimisation (SEO)

• Portal to increase traffic to national associations

• Promote the Conferences and inform attendees

• Definitive international information resource via Papers

Developing the SEPT website

Main sections comprise of:• Introductory Home page - optimising SEO• SEPT and its Members – with web and email

links• National Associations – with interactive map• Conferences – reviewing recent past and

promoting forthcoming (need full list)• Technical Papers – with choices of search facility

With rolling images and News headlines on each page.

Developing the SEPT website

Using the Technical Paper resource

Search facility options:

1. Author’s Name – from drop-down list

2. Subject(s) – from drop-down list

3. Word-search – typed in by user

Developing the SEPT website

Options 1 and 2 use specific ‘tags’ allocated by DS and can be used together or in isolation.

Option 3 is a ‘Google like’ search engine looking at all text in all the papers.

Live web demo

Developing the SEPT website

Current limitations and potential improvements to the Technical Paper resource:

• Option 3 takes a wide, coarse approach and is best used after Options 1 & 2

• Options 1 and 2 are restricted by the specific tags allocated. They use various name forms and localised terminology

Developing the SEPT website

Current limitations and potential improvements to the Technical Paper resource:

• Duplication and some errors in the Author’s Name listing have already been resolved

• The current Subject list can be expanded with international terminology provided by JH with Hodsons – and applied to future papers

• Expanded tagging will not cover existing papers

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Standardisation of information for tags will be the key to simple and effective addition of future papers – applied by Conference organisers:

• A single author’s name as Family Name, initial 1, initial 2, initial 3 (if any) – e.g. Brown, H. K.

• No multiple author names, titles or ‘et al.’• Up to 3(?) subject key-words selected from a

prescribed SEPT list• No bespoke subject descriptions

Developing the SEPT website

Standardisation of information for tags will be the key to simple and effective addition of future papers – applied by Conference organisers:

• We need to work closely with the Chinese Conference organisers to test implementation.

Developing the SEPT website

Suggested next steps – promoting and informing about the Chinese Conference as a phased process during 2011/12:

• Launch News items – link to dedicated organisers’ website

• Expand Conference page and add PDF downloads (programme, brochure, etc.) from organisers

• Updates and reminder items• Need to agree budget

Developing the SEPT website

Suggested next steps – after the Chinese Conference:

• Upload all new papers with allocated Author Name and Subject(s) tags for each

• Consider possible new subject categories based on Conference topics

• Add post-Conference review text and images • Announcement and early promotion of next

Conference• Need to agree budget.