Greg Duncan's "Web Page"

University Web Pages

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NOTE: The pages in this section are presented for historical value and as such some links no longer exist.

Computer Services first World Wide Web server installed on campus was in March 1995 on the Academic Computer System the Hewlett Packard 9000 850. The NCSA web server was installed on the HP9000. The following link represents the first home page for www.cameron.edu designed by Greg Duncan:

In August of 1995 I redesigned the University's Web Page:

Cameron's first two home pages, March and August, were designed by myself. To keep it in the family my wife Julie Duncan designed the third university home page. Julie was hired by Computer Services in August of 1995. Her major job function on campus was web maintenance and web instruction.

Interest in the Web had reached to the upper levels of the university administration and a web committee was formed. The web committee's job was to determine a new look and structure for the university pages. The committee looked at the University page, School page, Department page and Faculty/Staff page. Recommendations were made to the provost. The current web structure, implemented November 1995, is a result of the Web Committee's recommendation: Julie Duncan implemented the main top level pages. A number of departments started maintaining their own pages. The web committee was disbanded after the pages went into effect.

In August of 1996 the university's main page and a number of other university pages underwent a facelift. A new button bar was added as well as a number of new features such as a local web page search and a faculty/staff/student web search page. The main push of the new pages was to let everyone know about Festival III "Science Technology and the 21st Century". A number of pages were added to celebrate Festival III.

The University's fifth facelift was put in place in August of 1997. Julie Duncan implemented a new sleek design in this version. The background graphic was removed opting for a clean white background.

The University's sixth facelift was put in place in August of 1999. Julie Duncan incorporated the new Festival 2000 logo into the design. The pages have evolved into a sleek design providing easy access to Cameron information.

This design incorporated server side includes, javascript for rollover buttons, and a random graphic on the main page. The pages off the main page also incorporated these same features to give the site a more dynamic feel and look. These changes went into effect in August of 2000.

After several years implementing the new enrollment system with its own web server the main Cameron page was redesigned in the fall of 2003. The new design goes back to school colors, black and gold. The site also goes from static html documents to dynamic content based in a database. A web content management system called WebGUI is used. WebGUI is an open source web management system. This new design went into effect during Spring Break (March 2004).

Starting in January 2007 a backup web server was set up to start the implementation of a new version of WebGUI. Going from version 5.5.8 up to 7.3.21 several incremental versions of WebGUI had to be installed. At each version bugs had to be worked out then the next incremental version of WebGUI installed. Each web site on the web server also had to be updated to the same version of WebGUI. The operating system on the two web servers www.cameron.edu and www2.cameron.edu was updated to Red Hat ES4. The new look was developed by the company FairIsaac in Tulsa. In May of 2007 we switched to a new UNIX based enrollment system. Implementing the enrollment system consumed a large part of the time in the first half of 2007. Once the enrollment system went live time was concentrated on the new web design. The actual implementation of the design into WebGUI was done in house. All development and implementation of the new design was done on our backup web server. On August 2, 2007 at 12:30pm the switch was made over to the back up web server as our main web server.