OVERVIEW
One of the Minerva project goals is to help users quickly and easily put up a simple website that looks good. A typical user is a departmental website, the Departmental Template tool will be available to the whole community.
This will be of interest to users and sites which:
* want a good-looking site but don't have web designers on staff
* want to update their sites themselves
* want a simple, straightforward publishing tool that doesn't require a lot of training
* publish mostly static html content
* may publish simple dynamic components, like an events calendar or showing an RSS feed
TOOLS
We are working wtih DKS Interactive to license their site-building software. Here's a link to the site building demo they set up, using the IS&T site as an example.
DKS Interactive was the brains behind the Northeastern University templates program . This is a good snapshot of what we're aiming for: great looking sites, created easily and quickly.