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