The Intranet serves as the main source of information for internal employees. It will have its own unique homepage, navigation, and design. The design will be based upon the approved public website design; however, it may include its own color scheme, collage, and homepage layout.

Steps to implement:

• Complete main website project
• Replicate the main website including components such as calendar, news, etc.
• Implement the approved Intranet design
• Migrate or add pages as required*
• Launch the website behind a firewall to make it inaccessible from outside the client's
  internal network**
• Vision provides a day of web-based training for the Intranet

Server Requirements

Single Servers / Dual Servers 

Web Server

• Dual processors with quad cores at minimum 2.8 GHz CPU
• Minimum 6 GB RAM
• Minimum 40 GB Hard Drive
• Windows Server 2012

Database Server

• Dual processors with multiple cores at minimum 2.8 GHz CPU
• Minimum 8 GB RAM
• Minimum 80 GB Hard Drive
• Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Note: The Web Server and Database Server can either be separate or reside on the same machine. In case they are on the same machine, the minimum requirements are dual processors with Quad cores and at least 2.8 GHz CPU and 8GB RAM. For better performance, we recommend dual processors with Quad cores and 3.0 GHz CPU and above.

*Includes up to 25 pages; additional pages may be migrated for an additional budget
** For users to access the Intranet from outside your network, they may need to use a VPN to access your network prior to accessing the Intranet

RSS Viewer Widgets

RSS viewer widgets can be used to retrieve and display information from the main site, such as news and events, and display them on the Intranet. Any content can be retrieved as long as a RSS feed URL is available. If a website user clicks on one of the news or events items in the RSS viewer, they will be taken to the detailed information on the main website.

Items from the Intranet and main site will not be combined into one list. In this approach, the content in the website and the Intranet plus all management tools would be separate. We will implement Responsive Design for the Intranet that
will display an optimized view of the Intranet for mobile devices.

Optional Content Sharing Package

For an additional cost, we can provide more advanced content sharing options beyond the RSS viewer widgets.

This optional package allows for content sharing between the main site and the Intranet without the use of RSS viewers. Staff will be able to categorize items from the main website for use on both the main website and Intranet. From the Intranet, staff will be able to modify widget settings to choose what items to display from the widget. The items from the main site and Intranet will sort together into one list, based on the sorting assigned to that widget.

Initially, the components that will have content sharing options will be the News, Calendar, Staff Directory and Job Posting components. An icon will indicate which items came from the main website.