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About

vTools.WebInaBox is a project with the goal of providing a wizard to assist section volunteers in generating simple section websites in an automated fashion with no dependence on webmaster availability. Such websites have the following pages:

* A Home Page that can be customized with a welcome message, announcement, and a picture
* A Calendar Page that shows a list of events for this section that have been entered using the vTools.Meetings tool by section volunteers (in other words vTools.WebInABox seamlessly integrates with the vTools.Meetings to show meetings data).
* An Officer Information Page shows the section's officer information as specified by the section volunteer. Volunteers can specify what officers' information (s)he wants to show: name, position, e-mail, phone, etc. This information is then automatically pulled from a central IEEE data source that contains officer data as reported to the IEEE.
* An Other Units Page - information on chapters, affiliate groups, student branches, etc is automatically pulled from a central IEEE data source. Information includes unit name and a website if known. A volunteer can add custom links to other units on this page, for example a link to a “sister” section in a different region.
* A Links Page - this page has a number of IEEE links plus custom links specified by the volunteer.

vTools.WebInABox is not meant to compete with or replace complex content management systems. It is aimed toward sections that do not have a webmaster to create and maintain an up to date section website and need a very simple wizard to publish a site. Sections and chapters that only need a simple website with automatically updated information can take advantage of the vTools.WebInABox as well. Organizational units with advanced websites might find vTools.WebInABox will not satisfy 100% of their needs. However, those sections and chapters should strongly consider integrating with vTools.Meetings.

Currently vTools.WebInABox support sections, chapters, and affinity groups.

The vTools.WebInaBox look and feel is designed to be in compliance with IEEE guidelines for web presence. It will be updated as new guidelines emerge in the future.

vTools.WebInABox is designed to be installed on the IEEE server.

Contact

If you have any questions or would like to start using WebInABox please e-mail us at vtools-webinabox AT ieee org

SLA

SLA_vTools.WebInABox.pdf: Service Level Agreement

Tutorials

WebInABox online tutorial in Flash format

Instructions on automatically redirecting visitors from your old site to the WebInABox: