Peter Boersma Building a Community Website SIGCHI.NL Goes Online How do you Build the Perfect Website? Graphic Design would be no problem. Committees would have to contribute and update the information for other sections. Mock-up SIGCHI.NL, the Dutch local SIG, decided in its first member meeting o f January 1998 that most, if not all, communication to and between members should take place electronically. This also meant that the website should play a vital role in supporting the local HCI community. The newly appointed website committee was given the tough job of building the perfect website for an opinionated audience of 500 usability experts. IIow We Did It... The existing website had been created to promote the SIG's kick-off conference. It was basically one long homepage on a virtual server with links to some longer articles in the body. It was formatted with the Web Meta Language [1] toolkit and a CSS stylesheet [2]. The new website was designed by a subset of the committee due to the summer holiday season. It was built in stages: First a product plan, then a mock-up, and graphic design, some prototypes and a final version for publication. Product Plan A functional
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