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    Introduction to the New IWDW Website

    An online presentation of 12 slides and some live web pages...

    Shawn McClure (CIRA)

    Permalink:

    https://views.cira.colostate.edu/iwdw/slideshows/SEM_TCOMeeting_20171221/Default.aspx
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    Some Quick Highlights
    • Launching early next year (2018)
    • A completely redesigned and refactored framework
    • Uses "responsive web design" (RWD) principles
    • Employs recent web technologies and standards
    • Enables new development possibilities
    • Improves backend and frontend security
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    Launch Plans
    • "Soft" launch in Q1 2018
      • Announced selectively by email to IWDW project groups
      • Old website and URL will continue to represent the official site
      • Cooperators will be asked to register and review
      • Development team will be testing, refining, and polishing
      • Pages will continue to be migrated during this time
    • Official launch in Q2 2018
      • The current website will be archived
      • The new site becomes the official site
      • Old URL and bookmarks will start permanently redirecting to the new site
      • Announced broadly by email and on the home page
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    Why a new website?
    • Because our content has grown
      • Broader range of content across different subjects
      • Greater depth of content about individual subjects
      • The site can now be better organized to fit the content
    • Because our feature list has grown
      • A larger set of tools to be accessed
      • More sophisticated tool capabilities to offer
      • Expanded website management effort to handle
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    Why a new website (cont'd...)?
    • To showcase the project
      • To ensure the website looks good on all devices
      • To support more contemporary browsing habits
      • To enhance the promotional aspects of the site
    • To support current web best practices
      • To support user authentication and authorization best practices
      • To provide website and database security best practices
      • To follow website design and behavior best practices
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    Website Elements
    • Home page
      • Rotating content marquee
      • Dynamic tool selection grid
      • Responsive web design for smaller screens
    • Slideshows and brochures
      • Large image backgrounds
      • Full screen layouts and flexible designs
      • Automatic or manual slide action
      • Content is more discoverable on the web
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    Website Elements (cont'd...)
    • Right Sidebar
      • Updates: content, features, and datasets
      • Events: meetings, calls, conferences, and milestones
      • Tools: quick links to commonly-used tools and pages
      • Page Tags: instant search and navigation tags
    • Footer
      • Quick website summary and a link to more info
      • Contact and location information
      • Links to contextual and metadata pages
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    Website Elements (cont'd...)
    • Top Navigation Menu
      • "Flattens" the website navigation
        • Compact, multi-level dropdown design
        • Fewer clicks to your destination
        • Less mouse travel for clicking
        • Convenient link consolidation
      • Allows full HTML markup for increased flexibility
        • Ability to use icons and images as visual cues
        • Increased screen real estate
        • More sophisticated groupings and layouts
        • Enables responsive web layout for smaller devices
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    Infrastructure Refinements
    • Improved Security
      • Secure content delivery via an authenticated certificate (HTTPS protocol)
      • Required login for interactive pages
      • Refined practices for user authentication
      • Updates to backend infrastructure to guard against hacking
      • Automated operating system and server software testing by CSU
      • Automated "pen testing" by external contractors
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    Updated Pages (cont'd...)
    • New "Fine Print" Pages
      • Terms of Use
      • Privacy Policy
      • Data Use
    • Improved Utility Pages
      • Website Search
      • Site Map
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    Telling Our Story
    • An expanded "About" page
      • Combines and expands content from the follwing sources:
        • The current "About" page
        • The current "Overview" page
        • The current "Benefits" page
        • The current "Support" page
        • The draft IWDW-WAQS Operational Plan
      • Adds a clickable index and "back to top" links for navigation ease
      • Uses "accordion" widgets to mitigate long bullet lists
      • Adds some images and contemporary styling for mobile use
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    Future Goals
    • A streamlined data request process
    • Additional model post-processing and MPE tools
    • More seamless Wiki integration
    • System and infrastructure documentation (example)
    • A cloud backup system using Google Drive
    • Registration with external catalogs (NASA, EPA, Data.gov)
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    Thanks!
    And have a very Merry Christmas.
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The IWDW provides air quality data, photochemical grid modeling products, and analysis tools to support various air quality applications. Available datasets include monitoring data, emissions inventories, meteorological data, and air quality modeling platforms.

  • Location: Fort Collins, CO
  • Phone: 970-491-8455
  • Fax: 970-491-8598
  • Email: iwdwadmin@colostate.com
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