DMD mo-web Survey

Results as of 8/26/2004

27 responses from 22 agencies

Web Administration/Staffing

  1. Who oversees your public agency web site content?
    • 8 Public Information Officer/Director's Office
    • 6 Information Technology
    • 8 Both
    • 5 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • Web Committee consisting of people from it, admin, communication, sales and mkt
      • a website committee
      • Each division/office is responsible for their own content however IT monitors it and the HIPAA offic
      • Each business unit is repsonsible for its content
      • Web Policy Team
  2. How many people are assigned to web development? (Does not include content contributors.)
    • 6 1
    • 15 2-4
    • 4 5-10
    • 2 10+
  3. How many people are responsible for web design (layout and static pages)?
    • 13 1
    • 12 2-4
    • 2 5+
  4. How many people are responsible for web programming (dynamic content)?
    • 9 1
    • 14 2-4
    • 4 5+
  5. Does your agency have designated content contributors?
    • 18 Yes
    • 9 No
  6. What primary tool does your agency use to analyze the web logs?
    • 5 Nothing
    • 9 Analog
    • 7 Web Trends
    • 0 Webalizer
    • 0 FastStats Analyzer
    • 6 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • SiteLogz
      • Currently Webalizer but looking at URCHIN 5
      • I do some informal analyzing
      • livestats
      • Access and FastStats
      • Duh, what are these tools?
  7. Does your agency have HTML-based intranet?
    • 22 Yes
    • 5 No

Platform and Development Tools

  1. What operating system does your agency use for web development? (Check all that apply)
    • 27 Windows
    • 3 Macintosh
    • 3 Linux/Unix
    • 2 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • OS390 Webaware
      • AIX for some WebSphere Application Servers
  2. What primary web development tool do you use?
    • 20 Dreamweaver
    • 0 GoLive
    • 2 FrontPage
    • 1 WebSphere
    • 0 Visual Studios .NET
    • 4 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • Eclipse and a Text Editor(UltraEdit)
      • ColdFusion
      • Advantage CoolGen
      • UltraEdit-32
  3. What other web development tools do you use? (Check all that apply)
    • 10 Dreamweaver
    • 0 GoLive
    • 6 FrontPage
    • 6 WebSphere
    • 10 Visual Studios .NET
    • 10 Text editor
    • 5 HomeSite/BBEdit
    • 2 CoolGen
    • 4 CICS
    • 4 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • Eclipse, ant, wincvs, mysqlcc, mascon, cygwin, putty, filezilla, winscp
      • Websphere suffices for it all :)
      • contribute, editplus, 1stPage
      • mainframe CWS and CW Aware
  4. What programs do you use for image creation/editing? (Check all that apply)
      • 15 Fireworks
      • 4 ImageReady
      • 23 Photoshop
      • 1 GIMP
      • 2 Image Composer
      • 6 Other (If "Other", please specify):
        • Illustrator (SVG baby!)
        • Microsoft Photo Editor
        • WebSphere
        • FLASH
        • Macromedia Freehand
        • illustrator, powerpoint
    • Does your agency use any version control for web pages?
      • 3 Yes, using our development tool's built-in version control
      • 4 Yes, using a versioning system like CVS or SourceSafe
      • 6 Yes, we save a copy of the old file in an archive folder
      • 2 Yes, using comments and/or meta tags
      • 12 No
    • How does your agency test new web pages?
      • 7 Upload them to the production server and see if they work
      • 5 Test on a server installed on the developer's PC
      • 13 Test on a network server with no public access
      • 1 Test on a separate public server
      • 1 Other (If "Other", please specify):
        • Test on local pc and then to a non public server with security enabled

Servers and scripting

  1. What operating system does your primary web server use?
    • 0 Windows NT
    • 11 Windows 2000
    • 4 Windows XP
    • 0 Macintosh
    • 11 Linux/Unix
    • 1 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • Windows 2003
  2. What server(s) do you use? (Check all that apply)
    • 10 Apache 2.x
    • 3 Apache 1.3.x
    • 4 Tomcat
    • 19 Microsoft IIS
    • 0 Domino(Lotus Notes)
    • 6 WebSphere/Other Java server
    • 3 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • IBM HTTP Server
      • Not sure
  3. Where is your server located?
    • 11 State Data Center/MOREnet
    • 16 In Agency
    • 0 Hosted by non-state, third-party company
  4. Which dynamic web technologies does your agency site use? (Check all that apply)
    • 3 None. All pages are static HTML
    • 15 CGI/perl
    • 16 ASP
    • 10 JSP
    • 2 PHP
    • 10 .NET
    • 4 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • javascript, html
      • java
      • Java with the Struts Framework (compiled to .do files)
  5. What database technology does your site use? (Check all that apply)
    • 2 None
    • 11 MySQL
    • 5 Oracle
    • 10 DB2
    • 10 Microsoft SQL
    • 3 CICS
    • 4 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • MS Access
      • WebFOCUS
      • MS-Access; (note CICS uses both VSAM & DB/2
      • cumulus image asset database for photo database

Standards

  1. To what HTML standard does your agency site validate?
    • 7 Validation? What's that?
    • 9 HTML Transitional
    • 1 HTML Frames
    • 1 HTML Strict
    • 2 XHTML Transitional
    • 0 XHTML Frames
    • 7 XHTML Strict
    • 0 XML
  2. Does your agency site use validated CSS?
    • 16 Yes
    • 11 No
  3. Does your agency site meet WAI or 508 accessibility standards?
    • 22 508 compliant
    • 0 WAI compliant
    • 5 No

Work flow

  1. Who is authorized to upload content to your agency site? (Check all that apply)
  2. Who reviews content prior to posting to the public web site? (Check all that apply)
    • 3 No one
    • 10 Each Division/Section Manager
    • 8 Public Information Officer
    • 16 Web master
    • 13 Content contributor
    • 2 Review panel
    • 1 Other (If "Other", please specify):
      • Julie
  3. Who reviews design changes prior to posting to the public web? (Check all that apply)
    • 19 Web master
    • 10 Public Information Officer
    • 9 Management
    • 6 Review panel
    • 0 Other (If "Other", please specify):

Web Page Elements

  1. Does your agency web site have a DOCTYPE as the first line of each web page?
    • 10 Yes
    • 17 No
  2. Does your agency web site identify the primary language of each page?
    • 15 Yes
    • 12 No
  3. Is your agency web template layout
    • 21 Table-based
    • 6 Tableless
  4. Does your agency site use cookies?
    • 3 Yes, we use persistent cookies
    • 6 Yes, we use session cookies
    • 17 No, we don't use cookies
    • 1 I plead the Fifth Amendment
  5. Does your agency site use JavaScript?
    • 27 Yes
      0 No
  6. Does your agency site use Server-Side Includes?
    • 21 Yes
    • 6 No
  7. What file formats do you use on your agency web site? (Check all that apply)

DMD

  1. Have you attended any DMD meetings in the past 12 months?
    • 22 Yes
    • 5 No
  2. Have you attended any DMD-sponsored courses at MOTEC?
    • 19 Yes
    • 8 No
  3. Did you attend the DMD conference on accessibility and usability in April?
  4. What would you like to see the DMD doing? Check all that apply:
    • 21 Technology demonstrations
    • 10 Conferences/Symposiums
    • 22 Technology courses
    • 15 State web projects
    • 18 Web standards and guidelines development
    • 11 Web issues on-line help desk/discussion forum
    • 0 Other (If "Other", please specify):
  5. Please use the space below to make any comments or suggestions on improving the DMD
    • dmd im list ;)
    • I have not attended due to volume of work. When I did attend years ago, I did gain useful information. Everything I read in the agendas and conference reports tell me I really need to find time to attend.
      Keep up the good work!
    • I answered some questions based on the new site that we are about to go live with in the next couple months, not our current site.
    • Our site is partialy 508 compliant and we are working hard to get fully complied but right now we are in the process of redesigning the entire site.
    • Here at DOLIR we are looking at using CVS (or something like it) for version control. We will be using it for the Websphere/Java based applications.
    • At MVE our site which is a sub site of the department of corrections site is an online catalog. We continue to try to meet assessibility standards but due to the nature of the beast some are unattainable at present. Next years site as we do a new site annually in july, will be the first designed and developed using Dreamweaver and not frontpage. I have planned to attend meetings but as yet have not been able to attend.
    • Establish a posted "helper" list of those with specific expertise on DMD website. I am often in need of help with CGI/Perl and constantly am calling Kevin Lanahan. I know there are others, but who? Possibly think about forming subgroups conscentrating in areas such as CGI/Perl, CSS, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, MySQL, Photoshop, XHTML and others.
    • More surveys like this. Or perhaps coordinating usability studies of sites.
    • The server and scripting section did not cover what we server on the internet. All our static content is hosted on the Morenet server, but we also have a Microsoft IIS server in the DMZ. This is where most of our current dynamic applications are served. These are asp applications some are created to work with AdvantageGen.
    • We also serve CWS applications on the Mainframe Unix server designed to interface with CISC mainframe data.
    • We just need to keep up the great networking and collaborative work we are doing!
    • We staff some of these roles with consultants, questions 2, 4.

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