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About

vTools.WebInaBox is a wizard to assist volunteers in generating simple 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

* An optional Calendar Page that shows a list of events for this section that have been entered using the vTools.Meetings tool by volunteers (in other words vTools.WebInABox seamlessly integrates with the vTools.Meetings to show meetings data).

* An Officer Information Page shows the officer information. 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.

* An optional Blog Page shows most recent posts from your blog.

* A Links Page - this page has a number of IEEE links plus custom links specified by the volunteer.

* A File Repository Page (coming by February of 2011) can be used to post files and protect them with IEEE web account login.

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

Currently vTools.WebInABox supports sections, sub-sections, chapters, and affinity groups.

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

vTools.WebInABox is installed on the IEEE server, no local installation is needed.

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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: