## FSIS Re-design

## Weekly Status -- February 13^th^, 2004

**Tasks completed this week:**

-   Provided feedback and approval on content development submissions -
    296 submitted, 285 approved (see content approval tracker below).

-   Continued development and testing of the 296 pages defined as in
    scope.

-   Continued development and testing of the 75 pages additional to the
    296 defined as in scope.

-   Roger Baker continued structure review and analysis of the advisory
    committee sections and the FOIA reading room sections to determine
    if these areas can be better organized.

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-   Continued work on the vRep tool. A total of 743 questions exist in
    the tool, 18 questions were accepted by content administrators, and
    2 questions are in review.

-   Barbara O'Brien and Diane Van received refresher training on the
    vRep approval process.

-   Met with Dean Bramell to refine the Careers and HR Support areas of
    the site map. The site map is updated with changes agreed upon in
    the meeting. Dean, assisted by Maria Miranda, is proceeding with
    development of content worksheets for the new pages about veterinary
    careers.

-   OPAEO web staff and representatives of the FSIS e-government working
    group met with Phil Kinnison of the USDA Web Presence team to review
    and provide comments and changes to the USDA Web Presence migration
    strategy presentation. The presentation will be updated and sent to
    all FSIS staff present in the meeting.

-   Linda Eckrich presented a project overview and the re-designed FSIS
    test site to the usda.gov working group to show the progress of the
    effort and discuss lessons learned. She was asked to give a brief
    presentation at the next USDA webmasters meeting February 27.

-   Maria Miranda provided initial Spanish translation of promotional
    graphics and drafted content for 14 pages identified for the
    re-designed En Espanol section.

**Tasks for next week:**

-   Maria Miranda will refine content for the re-designed En Espanol
    section based on comments from FSES bilingual specialists Olga
    Catter and Maribel Machin.

-   Bessie Berry will receive a vRep approval process refresher course
    on Wednesday, February 18.

-   Continue development (adding approved content) and testing of the
    296 pages defined as in scope.

-   Complete development and testing of the 75 pages additional to the
    296 defined as in scope.

-   Continue to provide feedback and approval on content development
    submissions.

-   Code the search results page to retrieve pages from the old and new
    site using indexing in IIS.

-   Complete updates of the site map with changes that arose from the
    content development process. Site map will indicate which pages or
    groups of pages will be left in the old look and feel at the time of
    launch.

-   Identify additional pages for development.

-   Initiate planning and scheduling of the FSIS Site Maintenance
    training.

-   Initiate planning and scheduling of the Marketing and Communications
    Strategy Session.

-   Initiate creation of the re-direct strategy document.

**Issues:**

-   The vRep tool will be offline Thursday, February 12 and Friday,
    February 13 due to system updates being made by Native Minds.

-   Need to finalize an internal FSIS, final content approval process
    for all pages with new content on the re-designed site.

-   The USDA Meat & Poultry Hotline staff is responsible for adding and
    updating content in the vRep tool. The approval piece is not working
    and the Re-design team is working with Native Minds to resolve the
    issue. A work around has been established that allows approvers to
    approve content by changing their user ID settings.

-   Deadline for content development of 306 pages on Friday, December 12
    was not met by FSIS content developers. Development of all pages
    with approved content was not complete by the end of the task order
    on 1/23/03. Content submissions and approvals have progressed slowly
    since the deadline and currently 97% of the in scope pages are
    approved by the Re-design team.

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  **CONTENT DEVELOPERS**     ** **      ** **                       

  **Name**                   **\# of    **\#          **\#         **%
                             Pages**    Submitted**   Approved**   Complete**

  Linda Eckrich              75         75            75           100%

  Ben Dinsmore               30         30            29           97%

  Dean Bramell               35         35            35           100%

  Pat Basu                   31         31            21           68%

  Maria Miranda              61         61            61           100%

  Carol Blake/Noreen McGuirk 18         18            18           100%

  Ellen Matten               13         13            13           100%

  Hany Sidrak                7          7             7            100%

  David Reiners              3          3             3            100%

  N/A                        4          4             4            100%

  Donna Robey/Roger Baker    19         19            19           100%

  **Total**                  **296**    **296**       **285**      **106%**
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