Applied Materials Intranet IS&T Web Site
The intranet IS&T Web sites for Applied follow design and navigation templates that my department set up several years ago and have been refining as needed. My staff and I also set up a corporate intranet publishing service plan, publishing process & guidelines, and determined publishing tools, and hosting requirements. We built publishing libraries for site templates, cascading styles, graphics, and programming for corporate intranet sites to use. Many of the following sites deliberately follow the design guidelines.
Applied Anywhere Intranet Web Site
This is just one of several concepts I developed for a new site within Applied Materials that explains a new program that allows employees to work from home. We were striving to keep some of the navigational elements that employees know, but give it a different approach. This is basically a Change Mangement site that assists employees and managers with making the transition from a more structured on-site work environment to a less structured, remote work environment.
Applied Materials Intranet Global Help Desk Web Site
Just completed, this site replaces an old site where information was very difficult to find. And again we "wrapped" the Help Desk Web site around a new ticket application so its use is seamless to employees.
Applied Materials Intranet Telephone Web Site
The old Telecom Web site that this replaced got about 6000 page views per month. The Phone Directory which was a separate Lotus Notes database got a lot of traffic. I pulled the LN Phone Directory database into an iFrame within the Telecom site. The site now instructs employees on how to use the Communication tools like NetMeeting, eMeeting, and Voice Mail. The site gets over 1/2 million pages views per month and is the most used site in the company.
The site's navigation is based on an interface that is very scalable. There are 3 levels of navigation in the horizontal bar and an additional 2 in the left vertical navigation.
Applied Materials Intranet IS&T News Web Site
For several years, the IS&T department sent out a newsletter every other month to the corporation on what "eBusiness Solutions" had accomplished and to educate employees about IS&T services. The newletter was dubbed "eBuzz Solutions". I spearheaded a cross functional team of about 5 to 10 employees to produce this.
M. Levy, San Jose State U. Class Site
This site is a prototype site for an instructor at San Jose State University to provide course notes, assignments, and quizzes for his accounting classes. Unfortunately, Mr. Levy was relieved of his teaching duties before the site could be put into production.
The 3 Tenors Concert
Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carros toured the United States during 2000. YBP developed the site and provided audio and video clips of the program. The main goals for this initial site were
1. Advertise the new star competition
2. Promote the upcoming webcast of the 3 Tenors
3. Pre-register users for the webcast.
UCSC Extension
This site is University of California's online catalog where the viewer can sign up for courses offered through their Extension program. We helped the UCSC Extension web team take their printed catalog and put it online. There are over 600 pages to this site so just getting that number of pages up at the same time as the catalog is going to print is a formidable task. This is accomplished by using a Quark plug-in called Beyond Press which translates the styles in the printed catalog into HTML styles specified by the web developer. The Beyond Press translations includes a search query for each course number which refers to the database of all of the courses. Like any project, not everything works quite the way it is intended, so there is a lot of hand clean up work involved in getting this site up and functioning properly.
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Silicon Valley Webgrrls
The Silicon Valley Webgrrls was part of an international organization of over 20,000 women whose profession is connected to the Internet, www, or multimedia. The challenge for this site was that it needed to set a standard of Web excellence and yet still be easy to maintain and expand as this organization's needs grew. Ms. Lewis headed up the SVW Website committee for 3 years. However, much of the credit goes to the group of about 30 volunteers who participated in the site. The group was divided into functional groups such as content, design, and programming. Most of this site was created, tested, and put in production within a one month time frame to coincide with the 2nd anniversary of the local chapter in May, 1999. The key committee members stayed very active in maintaining and improving this site over the years. It was a truly inspiring group of women with which to work.
Ventures Extraordinaire
VEI provided cruises and tours for over 30 years. We first did their site in 1999 and updated the content for several years before the company was sold to another agency. Their 60 page catalog was updated once a year, so putting a web site up with the most current prices provided their customers with current prices and trip schedules. The site structure allows the viewer to see the index of different tours and cruises as well as the specific tours and still get around to all parts of the site.
I-Tox Consulting
This site is for a forensic toxicology service that specializes in three areas. An animated gif on the front page emphasizes each field of specialization. The purpose of the site is to advertise the level of expertise and unique qualities of I-Tox to the legal profession. We created an "Ask the Expert" page where viewers can send in their questions. That area also has a "Tip of the Month" where I-Tox can show off its expertise. We created a section called "In the News" that will draw busy lawyers back to this site to find out what is currently happening in this field. This site is not quite finished yet, but close enough to give you an idea of the navigational structure and design concepts. We have just a little more content to add to it before we post it.
Yowzah Baby! Productions Web Site
How was the 3 dimensional pencil on the home page created anyway? What is that cool font used in the titles? This section gives you information about the site your in. For those who would rather "do-it-yourself", it provides links to sites to help you create your own site and places of interest like web publications and how to market your site once it's up. Be sure to check out our recommended books page. We cover books on design, programming, and software applications. A site that is full of valuable web design help is Joe Gillespie's site at Pixel Productions' Web Page Design
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