Introduction

This is the first monthly status report about the www.iac.org web site. The goal is to keep both the IACWEB team and the IAC leadership apprised of our progress to date, tasks remaining, and any major open issues.

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Accomplishments

A lot of work got done in January and February, mostly positioning the team to reorganize our existing content and publish it using our new technology platform in an initial "parity" release.  Some highlights:

• Obtained control of the iac.org domain name and extended the registration through June 2015
• Configured the new cloud server, including web services, email, and FTP
• Migrated the existing site content to the cloud server; it now handles all of our web traffic
• Trish Deimer-Steineke set up web tools so that she can update the legacy site as needed (e.g. publishing the 2012 rule book)
• Installed and configured the Drupal Content Management System, which will power the new site, on the cloud server
• Wayne Roberts produced detailed maps of the existing www.iac.org, members.iac.org, and iacusn.org sites
• Doug Lovell arranged for us to receive a nightly update of member status (new, renewed, and expiring), which is critical to managing user accounts on the web site
• Copied all legacy content to the new (Drupal-powered) site
• Lorrie Penner accepted the position of Editor-in-Chief; she and her team have started work on the new site by updating and tidying up the existing content.
• Jim Ward and the "look-and-feel" team have produced working drafts of the Style Guide and the site's visual layout
• Configured Google Analytics to produce site metrics and reports for both the legacy and new sites

Many thanks are owed to the many people who have already pitched in.

Next Steps

• Establish a full project plan and schedule for the parity release
• Define the content hierarchy of the new site
• Publish version 1.0 of the Style Guide
• Ensure that the bulk of our content conforms to the Style Guide
• Create an IAC-controlled member database and develop an automated process to update it nightly based on the member status report