Alumni Association of the Western Pennyslvania School for the Deaf website launched today. It is one of my most challenge project I ever had. Here is the artice from James DeBee, President of Alumni what he had to say about this:
Okay, what I did for WPSD Alumni website:
New, Improved Website for Alumni Association By James DeBee ’76, President
Members of the Alumni Association of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf will find new and improved resources online at http://www.wpsdalumni.org.
The Alumni Association has offered a password-protected online alumni directory. Feedback and suggestions from alumnus led to these enhancements. Upgrades will continue based on feedback from alumni.
Alumni can use the directory to:
As always, privacy protection is a top priority. Alumni control their listing and can go online to update or “hide” specific contact information by making changes to their listing.- Look for a former classmate using the name search function to pull up current contact information
- Search for business contacts by title or company name
- Locate alumni in a specific geographic area by searching city or state
The directory is the first upgrade to the alumni website. Other improvements on the way include:
The Alumni Board Members hired our alumnus, David Fulmer ’96 to redesign and improve our alumni website. David just graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in February 2004. We are proud to have him as webmaster as well as WPSD Alumni. He has done an excellent job!- A class notes feature where alumni can upload pictures and more detailed information on their activities
- Profiles highlighting accomplishments of business school alumni
- Upgraded online career resources
We added more information:- Alumni Association’s by-law & constitution
- Alumni Association’s minute reports
- Alumni Events
- Alumni’s WPSD Historical & Photos
- Alumni’s Yearbook Collection (1969 to 2000)
- Alumin’s Lion Store
- Add your own event photos and stories in Alumni Gallery
- Applications & Nominations for Awards and officer elections
- Your Opinion Vote on any issue
- Pre-registration for Alumni Reunion
- News Announcements & Alumni President’s message
- School and Career links
- More...
Okay, what I did for WPSD Alumni website:
- Cascading Style Sheets powerhouse for design layout
- Seperate template files (header, footer, navigation, content, etc.) includes into one PHP page for easy to edit the layout in future
- PHP and MySQL - allowing for user registration and log-in and alumnus database management
- Wiki allows WPSD board members and administrator to edit, delete or modify the alumnus directory and link resources that has been placed on the Web by using browser interface -- without help from me
- Third-party PHP web tools. I installed Gallery, WordPress and Advance Poll. Board members can manage news blog, pictures and poll
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