Over the summer, ITSS and SULAIR made substantial changes and improvements to the Stanford web's Computing and Communication pages. You can find the site by selecting "computing" from the Administration, Faculty, or Staff & Employment menus on the Stanford home page or by going directly to:
http://computing.stanford.edu/
The site, often referred to as "CompComm," is the central source for links to service information, help resources, and ordering tools for all things "IT" at Stanford.
The update changed the visual design to look more like Stanford's top level web pages and introduced a few major improvements to the site's usefulness.
Menu-Based Navigation
When you visit computing.stanford.edu, you are now presented with menus that link you directly to the source you need, whether it's an information page, a download site, or an online help or ordering resource. No more having to link to -- and read through -- a bunch of "getting started" summary pages on your way to the information you really want.
Improved A-to-Z Services List
The last time the Computing and Communication site was updated, ITSS and SULAIR added a multi-page, alphabetical catalog of technology services that included descriptions and links to provider web sites. This time, in addition to auditing and updating that list from top to bottom, the site's designers have consolidated the catalog onto a single, searchable page. They also added a links-only version of the list to the top page, providing single-click access to service information for those who don't need to scroll through descriptions to get what they need.
Google-based Search Utility
The site now utilizes Stanford's central, Google-based tool for searches. The central search utility provides more comprehensive, intuitively accurate results than those delivered by the previous custom-built, CompComm-only search utility and database.
Please send comments and suggestions about the updated site to compcomm-team@lists.stanford.edu.
