Stanford Biochemistry/Suggestions for Department Website


 * Our own video page
 * Webcams
 * Photos/department flickr
 * Post all the department-wide photos
 * Include black-and-white photo of founders as one of the photos rotated on the front page
 * Descriptions of what each faculty member is currently working on in one easy to find place instead of having to look at each faculty member's personal page
 * More accessible/visible department calendar
 * Department history and lineage
 * [[Image:HHKornbergBio1530408.pdf|Include this Kornberg Biography‎]]
 * List of Faculty and Student Awards
 * Highlights of alumni
 * Full list of alumni, students, and postdocs- their thesis titles, where they are now (incl. global map of distribution), and/or sortable by career (faculty, biotech, communications, etc.)
 * A "forceful statement about our our unique attributes"
 * Press Coverage
 * Twitter feed(s)
 * Running banner of departmental publications that cycles thought the most recent 10-20 so that people can see what is coming out.
 * Simple front page with good pics and not too much text
 * Remove search bar
 * Compact, up-to-date link to lab and faculty web pages
 * eg. http://www.chem.yale.edu/faculty/)
 * Interesting and creative design, see:
 * http://mullinslab.ucsf.edu/
 * http://www.dnadarwin.org/
 * http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/index.php
 * http://www.richbrown.info/ (hipster potential)
 * Make sure a character set is used that won't be weird with international characters
 * Centralized system for reserving common equipment and rooms (possibly with LCD panels reflecting these reservations next to each resource)
 * Power draw updates for equipment (mostly centrifuges)
 * "Purely fantastical, but power draw vs. time graphs for the whole floor"