Director's Blog

On Tuesday, February 19th, OHSU launched a new version of its main website. While the focus of the initial launch was the OHSU homepage and mission pages, altogether we launched 203 new pages. New content is being added regularly and the rush is on to redesign department websites under the Unified Site guidelines. So what happens now? Web Strategies has three immediate post-Unified Site launch goals.

First, we will be working with each of the departments that have expressed a desire to redesign their sites or may already be in the process of doing so. Either Heather Penner or myself will meet with each of these teams and make sure that our design and development resources are available to them in the most timely manner possible. We'll also be working with departments that have engaged outside vendors to make sure we aren't reinventing the wheel and paying for the privilege.

Second, next week we are kicking off a major upgrade of our web analytics capabilities. This spring, OHSU will have a much deeper insight into how our web efforts are working (or not working).

Third, we are turning our attentions back to the search capabilities of our websites. Now that we have the infrastructure in place and the basic capabilities launched, we want to enhance the functionality and utility of search at OHSU. Beyond the new capabilities you have read about here ("Endeca Search – Phase II, 7 January 2008) we are going to be working on the content and metadata itself to make search results more relevant and the result sets more navigable.

• Web Strategies Site Redesign (May 1, 2008)