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 (embed videos).

- Project Snapshots: Change Green <br> function to Green's function <br>; There
  is nothing under heading May 2007! Add research highlights.

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

- Give banner text more of a background/outline because white text blends into
  sun (http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pretty.jpg)

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

(+ indicates problem fixed)

+ 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" [butRES.animations.jpg images available
on server, but the font size looks bad when the button gets rescaled to fit
the size of the previous button]

- 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
[http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/dataSelectionSimple.html]
 
 
*****

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	% changes to ECCO2 website
2
3	#benji
4
5	- Some publications under 2008 were published in 2007: "Hill, 2007: A
6	dynamicthermodynamic sea"
7
8	- Be able to start .mpg videos in the same window by clicking on them, instead
9	of having to download them into a separate window (embed videos).
10
11	- Project Snapshots: Change Green <br> function to Green's function <br>; There
12	is nothing under heading May 2007! Add research highlights.
13
14	- Link to .mpg from homepage gives error in IE (but not in Firefox).
15
16	- Give banner text more of a background/outline because white text blends into
17	sun (http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pretty.jpg)
18
19	- Could not access password-protected mitgcm.org/ecco_wiki/index.php/Cube78
20	(the ECCO-Godae wiki someone else mentioned below)
21
22	(+ indicates problem fixed)
23
24	+ Broken links: Related Links: SDSC Nuggets, Homepage imagemap Seasat
25	Changed to jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Seasat
26	Removed ESDCD news, summer 2003 from Related Links.
27
28	+ Some manuscripts and publications do not have links; missing space before
29	doi in R. M. Ponte's first entry
30
31	+ Meetings and Presentations: choose consistent Day, Month, Year MLA format
32
33	+ Inconsistencies between ecco2.org and ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov (such as banner
34	links)
35
36	+ Links are unclear, so get rid of href="#" in the dependencies tree after
37	clicking on Initial Conditions (IC); fix cubes 75 and 77
38
39	+ Typo in dependency tree ("horizontal" misspelled in legend)
40
41	+ Cube43 to Cube44 is exactly the same as subsequent Cube43 to Cube45
42
43	+ Related Links: Get rid of x after 2006...Data Assimilation; inconsistency in
44	whether date is part of link; Cube 23 says "but with reduce viscosity"
45
46	+ Products and Data Servers:
47	+data1/cube and data1/eight are both referred to as PO.DAAC ftp
48	server
49	+"Diagnostics for CLIVAR/GODAE" includes web addresses without links
50	(Could create readme.html instead of readme.txt)
51
52	+ Links lead user to filesystem directory index listings (such as Model-data
53	comparisons)...pick out significant files or try to open links in the same
54	black-background format and add index.htmls
55
56	+ Glossary (for acronyms used on the Perturbation Experiments Initial
57	Conditions page, for instance)
58
59	+ Visualizations would be very useful...perhaps place a link to a
60	visualization toolbox GUI .tar file near the OpENDAP link. Visualize changed
61	boundary conditions.
62
63	+ Consider an example figure and then a link, "More figures..."
64
65	+ Button inconsistencies (& vs. and); ECCO2 Logo alt text is a bit of a
66	misnomer for a link to ECCO(1)
67
68	+ Source code of ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov has seemingly extra // --> comments
69
70	+ People: In some browsers, one picture may move slightly upon mouseover; JPL
71	people are separated
72
73	# end_benji
74
75
76	- video of rotating cube (gif rather than download mpg)?
77
78	- presenting output from runs
79
80	-> ECCO-Godae wiki
81
82	+ [started] key time series (heat, mass, seaice)
83
84	+ [started] individual sites for ECCO2 team members with results
85
86	- set of standard plots
87
88	- rename to "results and animations" [butRES.animations.jpg images available
89	on server, but the font size looks bad when the button gets rescaled to fit
90	the size of the previous button]
91
92	- run descriptions: contents in a uniform table?
93	e.g. (products/output/cube/cube1)
94
95	+ [dependency tree does not include cube84] update run descriptions: cube 81
96	+> list of perturbation experiments
97
98	+ highlight OceanDIVA, and or OPeNDAP
99
100	+ information where data can be downloaded
101	[http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/dataSelectionSimple.html]
102
103
104
105	*****
106
107	from Dimitris:
108
109	add Laurent White
110	laurentw@princeton.edu
111	http://www.princeton.edu/~laurentw/
112	to http://ecco2.org/people/
113
114	maybe remove jim taft, move losch to were adcroft is ...
115
116	+possibly use bullets for meetings as is done for manuscripts
117
118	meetings, add index.html's to multi-presentation meetings
119
120
121	====================================
122
123	1. for the dependency tree,
124	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
125	fill in the "Text to come" with information from
126	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
127	and
128	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/readme.txt
129
130	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:
131	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/cube37/
132
133	3. for the initial conditions tree,
134	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
135	there has to be a sense of how many years of integration each experiment
136	involves. There is a typo for 76 it is blend 2 + 13 (not 3) years.
137
138	5. need to update http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
139	with more recent integrations.
140
141	Eventually, I would like
142	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
143	to be replaced by some directions to the various pages, i.e.,
144	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/readme.txt
145	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
146	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
147	one link for the existing content of the page
148	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/output.html
149	http://ecco2.org/products/output/equiv/
150	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/gsop/
151	and so on and so forth, maybe with small pictures showing what each page means.
152
153	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
154	to be renamed initial conditions. Also change so that position on page
155	immediately gives some idea of integration time.
156
157	Add explanations to arrows in
158	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
159
160	update menu for meetings to include all the ones that are in directory
161
162	buttons at top to stay there while browsing to different years
163	in meetings web site
164
165	when going over MITgcm, it changes font size
166	buttons have different amounts of shading on the sides
167
168	add link to
169	http://www.mit.edu/~mmazloff/current_research.html
170	and also the "saucy" figure
171
172	size of buttons may need to be readsuted a little bit, now that titles have
173	changed
174
175	5) the sides of some of the buttons are narrower, less shaded, than others.
176
177	6) Depressed button is still not quite right. What do you think? Shall we
178	try a slightly darker shade overall, i.e., less light.
179
180	7) Also when we go over the buttons and they light up green, shall we have the
181	one that is depressed also light-up green but in a depressed state, i.e.,
182	slightly darker and shaded sides reversed?
183
184	add description of cubed sphere to web site, see e-mail to Victor, 8 march 2007
185
186	High Resoution -> High Resolution
187
188	ASPERA with instructions
189	RSYNC Victor/Jerry
190
191	formats netcdf or software for on-the-fly transformation
192
193	ACCESS call for ECCO2/PO.DAAC and for SCIFLOW
194	look at February 16 call for ROSES FY07
195
196	move "other results and animations" under products and data servers and call
197	it "visualization"
198
199	Need to write text for "List of Global Cubed-Sphere (CS510) ECCO2 Solutions
200	and Perturbation Experiments" in
201	http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
202	There was an old description on original page that I can use as a baseline but
203	it will need to be modified to better explain the baseline to perturbation
204	concept.
205
206	replace rhoConst with actual value in description
207
208	ECCO logo should point to ecco-group web site for both ecco2.jpl and
209	ecco2.org, without opening new window. avoid opening new windows for any of
210	the web sites
211	why does ECCO2 banner move when we click it?
212	button, can it have a depressed look when clicked, i.e., opposite shadows
213	make search ECCO2 live, needs to be accessible outside JPL
214
215	separate http://ecco2.org/products/index.html page
216	transfer some of the other stuff to JPL and beautify
217	populate http://ecco2.org/applications/
218	add description of Tong Lee's and Josh Willis' efforts to ECCO2 web site
219	add 1/6th degree Arctic Ocean and Antarctic Ocean solutions to ECCO2 web site
220
221	add short descriptions to blue buttons when you pass over them