How to Survive in a Fast-Paced Office Environment

- Christine Liew, SFU Business Co-op Program

In the past, educational websites would tend to be long, dry, and busy with information. This left users feeling lost and frustrated, leading them away from the website. Today, some college websites go beyond the standard two-column and three-column layout; they have come a long way from the boxy look and feel of websites past. Some have even branched out different departments within their school into their own separate, independent website.

Government, like other industries, are facing a series of challenges when dealing with Records Management (RM); to list a few, we have:

Manual and inconsistent processes

Existing tools not easy to use, especially for end-users

Heavy regulation

Higher cost for managing growing records

Hitting a contractible deliverable for accessibility is generally easy enough, even despite Drupal's best efforts to scupper all attempts with forms and redundant labels and other hidden gotchas. A deliverable in these cases usually comes in the form of meeting a standard, whether it be a North American client wanting Section 508 coverage, or A UK client wishing for AA coverage and protection from UK disciplinary against the Accessibility Acts laws.