We need your feedback - Beta version of New CEAL website now available!

The Library Technology Committee is pleased to announce that a beta version of NEW CEAL website is now available to the CEAL community for feedback. Here is the URL to the beta site: http://www.eastasianlib.org/newsite/. It is built in WordPress, one of popular content management systems for contemporary websites. Below are some of the highlights of the beta site:

• Clean layout – A drop-down navigation bar is created with top-rated links according to the CEAL website survey we conducted last year.
• Responsive and consistent design – The beta site can work well on a variety of devices (desktop, tablet, phone, etc.) and window or screen sizes. All webpages have visual consistency in design.
• More visual elements – The homepage includes a wide image slider to feature CEAL news. There are also photos of CEAL members and activities across the website.
• One place for annual meeting programs – A centralized section for annual meetings is created for all plenary and committee program schedules and presentation slides.

Please note that the beta site only includes important and updated content for CEAL, and annual meeting programs and presentations from 2018 on. All the historical content (2017 and prior years) are still kept on the current website. The current site will be archived with a new URL when the beta site becomes the official CEAL website at the beginning of next year (2019).

Our website development team (Anlin Yang, Lucy Gan and myself) would like to express our gratitude to the Executive Board for their generous support of this website redesign project. We would love to hear your feedback about the beta site. Please submit your comments using “Contact Us” form on the bottom right of the beta site or email Tang Li (tangli@usc.edu) directly through the end of this year.

CEAL Website Webhost Change

FYI
The CEAL website is moving to a new “webhosting” company, Arvixe (http://www.arvixe.com/). As a part of the move, for the next 24 to 36 hours (until Wed. Jan. 28th at about 4PM PST), the usual CEAL URL (http://www.eastasianlib.org) may (or may not) take you to a temporary message page, indicating that the website is moving to Arvixe.


In the meantime, you can still access the CEAL website at this temporary URL:
http://eastasianlib.org.lotus.arvixe.com/index.htm

Please let me know if you have questions or concerns.


Yours Truly,
Rob Britt
Chair, CEAL Library Technology Committee

CEAL Website Back Online

As noted in my recent post, the CEAL Website was hacked last week. I took steps to secure our server, and have now restored the site (click to view the CEAL website).

CEAL Server Folder administrators: 

For now access to the CEAL server is limited to me, as I am testing our site to make sure there is no further problem. No FTP access to your folders on the server is available. I am currently developing a new system to allow you to administer your folders with less risk to the CEAL server.

About one or two weeks from now (as soon as possible), I will contact you with new information about how to update your CEAL server folder. Thanks for your patience.

Let me know if you have questions or concerns.

Yours truly,
Rob Britt
Chair, CEAL Library Technology Committee
rrbritt@uw.edu

CEAL Website Down

The CEAL website has been hit with the second malware attack in the last two weeks. I am working to restore the website, but it may take some time (it's difficult to be more specific at this point). I will carefully (and slowly) make sure the problem is resolved before restoring the website. As it is the holiday, it may take longer than otherwise. In the meantime, the two CEAL blogs, CEAL News and CEAL Jobs (both hosted by Google blogger) are working. The Eastlib listserv is also still working.  I am happy to do posts for you on the blogs, just let me know what you'd like to post.

Thanks for your patience.

For those who manage folders on the CEAL website:

I have changed all the passwords, again. This means that you will have no FTP access to your CEAL folder. After the website is restored, you may email me for further information and instructions. At that point, I will re-issue your password. In the meantime, please do a complete malware scan of your computers, especially your CEAL web folder backup.

Have a great holiday season.
Regards,
Rob

Rob Britt
CEAL Library Technology Chair
rrbritt@uw.edu

Help Wanted With Website, Directory, Blogs, Etc

Dear CEAL Members (or potential members):
As Chair of the CEAL Library Technology Committee (CLT; currently staffed only by me!), I am looking for help with various aspects of the CEAL website: Server routine backups; CEAL Directory MS Access database update; Blog Update (CEAL News and CEAL Jobs). In addition, I may need help with technical support for presenters at the annual meeting. The work is mostly routine, and not difficult if you have OR are willing to learn some basic skills. I am willing and able to help you learn.

Why? For one thing, my tenure as CEAL Library Technology Chair expires in about 20 months (March 2014). If requested, I may continue after that (the CLT chair position is appointed by the Executive Board). In any case, it would be good for CEAL to have a CLT backup who is at least familiar with the basics.

Are you interested? It's fun (if you like this sort of thing!) It looks good on your resume!

Please email or phone me (contact info below).

Rob
CEAL Library Technology Chair

Rob Britt Coordinator of East Asian Library Services University of Washington Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library East Asian Law Department (Room L138) Box 353025 Seattle, WA  98195-3025 USA Phone: 206-543-7447 Fax: 206-685-2165 Email: rrbritt@uw.edu http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/eald.html

CEAL Logo Page Updated

Click to view the updated information page on the CEAL logo, including designer Shirin Eshghi's description of her design for the new logo, and information about the old logo.

Search the CEAL Website

I've added a Google search engine to the CEAL website. The new CEAL search engine indexes the CEAL website and the two CEAL blogs (News and Jobs). Click the "Search" link in the yellow search bar, or go directly to the CEAL Search page. Please let me know if you have comments or questions.
Regards,
Rob Britt