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
• File:HHKornbergBio1530408.pdf
• 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"