ecco2_web/ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/website_improvements.txt

% changes to ECCO2 website

#benji

- Some publications under 2008 were published in 2007: "Hill, 2007: A dynamicthermodynamic sea"

- Be able to start .mpg videos in the same window by clicking on them, instead of having to download them into a separate window.

- Project Snapshots: Change Green <br> function to Green's function <br>; Add more than just one month or move elsewhere...There is nothing for May 2007

- Link to .mpg from homepage gives error in IE, but not in Firefox

- Give banner text more of a background because white text blends into sun


- Could not access password-protected mitgcm.org/ecco_wiki/index.php/Cube78 (the ECCO-Godae wiki someone else mentioned below)


+ Broken links: Related Links: SDSC Nuggets, Homepage imagemap Seasat
         Changed to jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Seasat
                Removed ESDCD news, summer 2003 from Related Links.

+ Some manuscripts and publications do not have links; missing space before doi in R. M. Ponte's first entry

+ Meetings and Presentations: choose consistent  Day, Month, Year MLA format

+ Inconsistencies between ecco2.org and ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov (such as banner links)

+ Links are unclear, so get rid of href="#" in the dependencies tree after clicking on Initial Conditions (IC); fix cubes 75 and 77

+ Typo in dependency tree ("horizontal" misspelled in legend)

+ Cube43 to Cube44 is exactly the same as subsequent Cube43 to Cube45

+ Related Links: Get rid of x after 2006...Data Assimilation; inconsistency in whether date is part of link; Cube 23 says "but with reduce viscosity"

+ Products and Data Servers: 
           +data1/cube and data1/eight are both referred to as PO.DAAC ftp server
           +"Diagnostics for CLIVAR/GODAE" includes web addresses without links
           (Could create readme.html instead of readme.txt)
           
+ Links lead user to filesystem directory index listings (such as Model-data comparisons)...pick out significant files or try to open links in the same black-background format and add index.htmls

+ Glossary (for acronyms used on the Perturbation Experiments Initial Conditions page, for instance)
           
+ Visualizations would be very useful...perhaps place a link to a visualization toolbox GUI .tar file near the OpENDAP link. Visualize changed boundary conditions.

+ Consider an example figure and then a link, "More figures..."

+ Button inconsistencies (& vs. and); ECCO2 Logo alt text is a bit of a misnomer for a link to ECCO(1)

+ Source code of ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov has seemingly extra // --> comments

+ People: In some browsers, one picture may move slightly upon mouseover; JPL people are separated

# end_benji


- video of rotating cube (gif rather than download mpg)?

- presenting output from runs

  -> ECCO-Godae wiki

+ [started] key time series (heat, mass, seaice)

+ [started] individual sites for ECCO2 team members with results

- set of standard plots

- rename to  "results and animations"

- run descriptions: contents in a uniform table?
 e.g. (products/output/cube/cube1)
 
+ [dependency tree does not include cube84] update run descriptions: cube 81
  +> list of perturbation experiments
  
+ highlight OceanDIVA, and or OPeNDAP
 
+ information where data can be downloaded
 
 
*****

from Dimitris:

add Laurent White
laurentw@princeton.edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~laurentw/
to http://ecco2.org/people/

maybe remove jim taft, move losch to were adcroft is ...

+possibly use bullets for meetings as is done for manuscripts

meetings, add index.html's to multi-presentation meetings


====================================

1. for the dependency tree,
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
fill in the "Text to come" with information from
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
and
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/readme.txt

2. for the dependency tree, clicking on a particular integration should take one to location of model output, i.e., for cube37, it should point to:
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/cube37/

3. for the initial conditions tree,
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
there has to be a sense of how many years of integration each experiment
involves.  There is a typo for 76 it is blend 2 + 13 (not 3) years.

5. need to update http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
with more recent integrations.

Eventually, I would like
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
to be replaced by some directions to the various pages, i.e.,
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/readme.txt
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
one link for the existing content of the page
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/output.html
http://ecco2.org/products/output/equiv/
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/gsop/
and so on and so forth, maybe with small pictures showing what each page means.

http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
to be renamed initial conditions.  Also change so that position on page immediately gives some idea of integration time.

Add explanations to arrows in
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html

update menu for meetings to include all the ones that are in directory

buttons at top to stay there while browsing to different years
in meetings web site

when going over MITgcm, it changes font size
buttons have different amounts of shading on the sides

add link to 
http://www.mit.edu/~mmazloff/current_research.html
and also the "saucy" figure

size of buttons may need to be readsuted a little bit, now that titles have changed

5) the sides of some of the buttons are narrower, less shaded, than others.

6) Depressed button is still not quite right.  What do you think?  Shall we try a slightly darker shade overall, i.e., less light.

7) Also when we go over the buttons and they light up green, shall we have the one that is depressed also light-up green but in a depressed state, i.e., slightly darker and shaded sides reversed?

add description of cubed sphere to web site, see e-mail to Victor, 8 march 2007

High Resoution -> High Resolution

ASPERA with instructions
RSYNC Victor/Jerry

formats netcdf or software for on-the-fly transformation

ACCESS call for ECCO2/PO.DAAC and for SCIFLOW
look at February 16 call for ROSES FY07

move "other results and animations" under products and data servers and call it "visualization"

Need to write text for "List of Global Cubed-Sphere (CS510) ECCO2 Solutions and Perturbation Experiments" in http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
There was an old description on original page that I can use as a baseline but it will need to be modified to better explain the baseline to perturbation concept.

replace rhoConst with actual value in description

ECCO logo should point to ecco-group web site for both ecco2.jpl and ecco2.org, without opening new window.  avoid opening new windows for any of the web sites
why does ECCO2 banner move when we click it?
button, can it have a depressed look when clicked, i.e., opposite shadows
make search ECCO2 live, needs to be accessible outside JPL

separate http://ecco2.org/products/index.html page
transfer some of the other stuff to JPL and beautify
populate http://ecco2.org/applications/
add description of Tong Lee's and Josh Willis' efforts to ECCO2 web site
add 1/6th degree Arctic Ocean and Antarctic Ocean solutions to ECCO2 web site

add short descriptions to blue buttons when you pass over them
1	dimitri	1.1	% changes to ECCO2 website
2
3			#benji
4
5	dimitri	1.2	- Some publications under 2008 were published in 2007: "Hill, 2007: A dynamicthermodynamic sea"
6	dimitri	1.1
7			- Be able to start .mpg videos in the same window by clicking on them, instead of having to download them into a separate window.
8
9			- Project Snapshots: Change Green <br> function to Green's function <br>; Add more than just one month or move elsewhere...There is nothing for May 2007
10
11			- Link to .mpg from homepage gives error in IE, but not in Firefox
12
13			- Give banner text more of a background because white text blends into sun
14
15
16	dimitri	1.4	- Could not access password-protected mitgcm.org/ecco_wiki/index.php/Cube78 (the ECCO-Godae wiki someone else mentioned below)
17	dimitri	1.1
18
19
20	dimitri	1.3
21			+ Broken links: Related Links: SDSC Nuggets, Homepage imagemap Seasat
22			Changed to jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Seasat
23			Removed ESDCD news, summer 2003 from Related Links.
24
25			+ Some manuscripts and publications do not have links; missing space before doi in R. M. Ponte's first entry
26
27			+ Meetings and Presentations: choose consistent Day, Month, Year MLA format
28
29			+ Inconsistencies between ecco2.org and ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov (such as banner links)
30
31			+ Links are unclear, so get rid of href="#" in the dependencies tree after clicking on Initial Conditions (IC); fix cubes 75 and 77
32
33			+ Typo in dependency tree ("horizontal" misspelled in legend)
34
35			+ Cube43 to Cube44 is exactly the same as subsequent Cube43 to Cube45
36
37			+ Related Links: Get rid of x after 2006...Data Assimilation; inconsistency in whether date is part of link; Cube 23 says "but with reduce viscosity"
38
39	dimitri	1.4	+ Products and Data Servers:
40			+data1/cube and data1/eight are both referred to as PO.DAAC ftp server
41			+"Diagnostics for CLIVAR/GODAE" includes web addresses without links
42			(Could create readme.html instead of readme.txt)
43
44			+ Links lead user to filesystem directory index listings (such as Model-data comparisons)...pick out significant files or try to open links in the same black-background format and add index.htmls
45
46			+ Glossary (for acronyms used on the Perturbation Experiments Initial Conditions page, for instance)
47
48			+ Visualizations would be very useful...perhaps place a link to a visualization toolbox GUI .tar file near the OpENDAP link. Visualize changed boundary conditions.
49
50			+ Consider an example figure and then a link, "More figures..."
51
52			+ Button inconsistencies (& vs. and); ECCO2 Logo alt text is a bit of a misnomer for a link to ECCO(1)
53
54			+ Source code of ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov has seemingly extra // --> comments
55
56			+ People: In some browsers, one picture may move slightly upon mouseover; JPL people are separated
57
58	dimitri	1.1	# end_benji
59
60
61			- video of rotating cube (gif rather than download mpg)?
62
63			- presenting output from runs
64
65			-> ECCO-Godae wiki
66
67	dimitri	1.4	+ [started] key time series (heat, mass, seaice)
68	dimitri	1.1
69	dimitri	1.4	+ [started] individual sites for ECCO2 team members with results
70	dimitri	1.1
71			- set of standard plots
72
73			- rename to "results and animations"
74
75			- run descriptions: contents in a uniform table?
76			e.g. (products/output/cube/cube1)
77
78	dimitri	1.4	+ [dependency tree does not include cube84] update run descriptions: cube 81
79			+> list of perturbation experiments
80	dimitri	1.1
81	dimitri	1.4	+ highlight OceanDIVA, and or OPeNDAP
82	dimitri	1.1
83	dimitri	1.4	+ information where data can be downloaded
84	dimitri	1.1
85
86
87			*****
88
89			from Dimitris:
90
91			add Laurent White
92			laurentw@princeton.edu
93			http://www.princeton.edu/~laurentw/
94			to http://ecco2.org/people/
95
96			maybe remove jim taft, move losch to were adcroft is ...
97
98	dimitri	1.4	+possibly use bullets for meetings as is done for manuscripts
99	dimitri	1.1
100			meetings, add index.html's to multi-presentation meetings
101
102
103			====================================
104
105			1. for the dependency tree,
106			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
107			fill in the "Text to come" with information from
108			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
109			and
110			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/readme.txt
111
112			2. for the dependency tree, clicking on a particular integration should take one to location of model output, i.e., for cube37, it should point to:
113			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/cube37/
114
115			3. for the initial conditions tree,
116			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
117			there has to be a sense of how many years of integration each experiment
118			involves. There is a typo for 76 it is blend 2 + 13 (not 3) years.
119
120			5. need to update http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
121			with more recent integrations.
122
123			Eventually, I would like
124			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
125			to be replaced by some directions to the various pages, i.e.,
126			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/readme.txt
127			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
128			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
129			one link for the existing content of the page
130			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/output.html
131			http://ecco2.org/products/output/equiv/
132			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/gsop/
133			and so on and so forth, maybe with small pictures showing what each page means.
134
135			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
136			to be renamed initial conditions. Also change so that position on page immediately gives some idea of integration time.
137
138			Add explanations to arrows in
139			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
140
141			update menu for meetings to include all the ones that are in directory
142
143			buttons at top to stay there while browsing to different years
144			in meetings web site
145
146			when going over MITgcm, it changes font size
147			buttons have different amounts of shading on the sides
148
149			add link to
150			http://www.mit.edu/~mmazloff/current_research.html
151			and also the "saucy" figure
152
153			size of buttons may need to be readsuted a little bit, now that titles have changed
154
155			5) the sides of some of the buttons are narrower, less shaded, than others.
156
157			6) Depressed button is still not quite right. What do you think? Shall we try a slightly darker shade overall, i.e., less light.
158
159			7) Also when we go over the buttons and they light up green, shall we have the one that is depressed also light-up green but in a depressed state, i.e., slightly darker and shaded sides reversed?
160
161			add description of cubed sphere to web site, see e-mail to Victor, 8 march 2007
162
163			High Resoution -> High Resolution
164
165			ASPERA with instructions
166			RSYNC Victor/Jerry
167
168			formats netcdf or software for on-the-fly transformation
169
170			ACCESS call for ECCO2/PO.DAAC and for SCIFLOW
171			look at February 16 call for ROSES FY07
172
173			move "other results and animations" under products and data servers and call it "visualization"
174
175			Need to write text for "List of Global Cubed-Sphere (CS510) ECCO2 Solutions and Perturbation Experiments" in http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
176			There was an old description on original page that I can use as a baseline but it will need to be modified to better explain the baseline to perturbation concept.
177
178			replace rhoConst with actual value in description
179
180			ECCO logo should point to ecco-group web site for both ecco2.jpl and ecco2.org, without opening new window. avoid opening new windows for any of the web sites
181			why does ECCO2 banner move when we click it?
182			button, can it have a depressed look when clicked, i.e., opposite shadows
183			make search ECCO2 live, needs to be accessible outside JPL
184
185			separate http://ecco2.org/products/index.html page
186			transfer some of the other stuff to JPL and beautify
187			populate http://ecco2.org/applications/
188			add description of Tong Lee's and Josh Willis' efforts to ECCO2 web site
189			add 1/6th degree Arctic Ocean and Antarctic Ocean solutions to ECCO2 web site
190
191			add short descriptions to blue buttons when you pass over them