Purpose

The Web Development team oversees the Maricopa and District websites, encouraging standard practices, consistent user interfaces, the use of web interfaces to save printing expenses and meeting time, and compliance with the general standards governing use of Maricopa computing resources. They have been key in encouraging ADA compliance for information provided via the web, and in development of interactive pages supported by database engines in the background.

Results / Impact / Costs

Increasingly, potential students and employees are researching their options via the Internet before approaching a school physically. Departments at the District Office have increased their use of the web to disseminate information, frequently offsetting or supplanting the use of paper printing, travel and/or telephone activity for like purposes. While it is very difficult to measure, best practices indicate that a pleasing and consistent user interface is at least as important as the content.

Staffing

In theory, two programmers support the Maricopa and District websites with intermittent support from their manager. One of the two programmers has been reassigned to the Quality Assurance team, hopefully to be replaced by an OYO employee. If the current trend continues to demand more functionality and reporting via the web, yet another FTE may be needed.

Future Issues