MITgcm_contrib/ecco2_web/website_improvements.txt

% changes to ECCO2 website

#benji

- Broken links: Related Links: SDSC Nuggets, Homepage imagemap Seasat
         Change to jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Seasat

- 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

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

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

- 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

- 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)

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

- Visualizations would be very useful...perhaps place a link to a visualization toolbox GUI .tar file near the OpENDAP link. Visualize changed boundary conditions.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

# end_benji


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

- presenting output from runs

  -> ECCO-Godae wiki

- key time series (heat, mass, seaice)

- 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)
 
- 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			- Broken links: Related Links: SDSC Nuggets, Homepage imagemap Seasat
6			Change to jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Seasat
7
8			- Some manuscripts and publications do not have links; missing space before doi in R. M. Ponte's first entry
9
10			- Meetings and Presentations: choose consistent Day, Month, Year MLA format
11
12			- Some items publications under 2008 were published in 2007: "Hill, 2007: A dynamicthermodynamic sea"
13
14			- Inconsistencies between ecco2.org and ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov (such as banner links)
15
16			- Products and Data Servers:
17			data1/cube and data1/eight are both referred to as PO.DAAC ftp server
18			"Diagnostics for CLIVAR/GODAE" includes web addresses without links
19
20			- 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
21
22			- Glossary (for acronyms used on the Perturbation Experiments Initial Conditions page, for instance)
23
24			- Links are unclear, so get rid of href="#" in the dependencies tree after clicking on Initial Conditions (IC); fix cubes 75 and 77
25
26			- Visualizations would be very useful...perhaps place a link to a visualization toolbox GUI .tar file near the OpENDAP link. Visualize changed boundary conditions.
27
28			- Be able to start .mpg videos in the same window by clicking on them, instead of having to download them into a separate window.
29
30			- 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
31
32			- People: In some browsers, one picture may move slightly upon mouseover; JPL people are separated
33
34			- Link to .mpg from homepage gives error in IE, but not in Firefox
35
36			- Typo in dependency tree ("horizontal" misspelled in legend)
37
38			- Cube43 to Cube44 is exactly the same as subsequent Cube43 to Cube45
39
40			- Give banner text more of a background because white text blends into sun
41
42			- Related Links: Get rid iof x after 2006...Data Assimilation; inconsistency in whether date is part of link; Cube 23 says "but with reduce viscosity"
43
44			- Button inconsistencies (& vs. and); ECCO2 Logo alt text is a bit of a misnomer for a link to ECCO(1)
45
46			- Source code of ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov has seemingly extra // --> comments
47
48			- Could not access password-protected mitgcm.org/ecco_wiki/index.php/Cube78 (the ECCO-Godae wiki someone else mentioned below)
49
50			- Consider an example figure and then a link, "More figures..."
51
52			# end_benji
53
54
55			- video of rotating cube (gif rather than download mpg)?
56
57			- presenting output from runs
58
59			-> ECCO-Godae wiki
60
61			- key time series (heat, mass, seaice)
62
63			- individual sites for ECCO2 team members with results
64
65			- set of standard plots
66
67			- rename to "results and animations"
68
69			- run descriptions: contents in a uniform table?
70			e.g. (products/output/cube/cube1)
71
72			- update run descriptions: cube 81
73			-> list of perturbation experiments
74
75			- highlight OceanDIVA, and or OPeNDAP
76
77			- information where data can be downloaded
78
79
80
81			*****
82
83			from Dimitris:
84
85			add Laurent White
86			laurentw@princeton.edu
87			http://www.princeton.edu/~laurentw/
88			to http://ecco2.org/people/
89
90			maybe remove jim taft, move losch to were adcroft is ...
91
92			possibly use bullets for meetings as is done for manuscripts
93
94			meetings, add index.html's to multi-presentation meetings
95
96
97			====================================
98
99			1. for the dependency tree,
100			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
101			fill in the "Text to come" with information from
102			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
103			and
104			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/readme.txt
105
106			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:
107			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/cube37/
108
109			3. for the initial conditions tree,
110			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
111			there has to be a sense of how many years of integration each experiment
112			involves. There is a typo for 76 it is blend 2 + 13 (not 3) years.
113
114			5. need to update http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
115			with more recent integrations.
116
117			Eventually, I would like
118			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/
119			to be replaced by some directions to the various pages, i.e.,
120			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/cube/readme.txt
121			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
122			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
123			one link for the existing content of the page
124			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/output.html
125			http://ecco2.org/products/output/equiv/
126			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/gsop/
127			and so on and so forth, maybe with small pictures showing what each page means.
128
129			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/dependencies_tree.jpg
130			to be renamed initial conditions. Also change so that position on page immediately gives some idea of integration time.
131
132			Add explanations to arrows in
133			http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/products/output/cube/ecco2_diagram/diagram.html
134
135			update menu for meetings to include all the ones that are in directory
136
137			buttons at top to stay there while browsing to different years
138			in meetings web site
139
140			when going over MITgcm, it changes font size
141			buttons have different amounts of shading on the sides
142
143			add link to
144			http://www.mit.edu/~mmazloff/current_research.html
145			and also the "saucy" figure
146
147			size of buttons may need to be readsuted a little bit, now that titles have changed
148
149			5) the sides of some of the buttons are narrower, less shaded, than others.
150
151			6) Depressed button is still not quite right. What do you think? Shall we try a slightly darker shade overall, i.e., less light.
152
153			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?
154
155			add description of cubed sphere to web site, see e-mail to Victor, 8 march 2007
156
157			High Resoution -> High Resolution
158
159			ASPERA with instructions
160			RSYNC Victor/Jerry
161
162			formats netcdf or software for on-the-fly transformation
163
164			ACCESS call for ECCO2/PO.DAAC and for SCIFLOW
165			look at February 16 call for ROSES FY07
166
167			move "other results and animations" under products and data servers and call it "visualization"
168
169			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/
170			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.
171
172			replace rhoConst with actual value in description
173
174			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
175			why does ECCO2 banner move when we click it?
176			button, can it have a depressed look when clicked, i.e., opposite shadows
177			make search ECCO2 live, needs to be accessible outside JPL
178
179			separate http://ecco2.org/products/index.html page
180			transfer some of the other stuff to JPL and beautify
181			populate http://ecco2.org/applications/
182			add description of Tong Lee's and Josh Willis' efforts to ECCO2 web site
183			add 1/6th degree Arctic Ocean and Antarctic Ocean solutions to ECCO2 web site
184
185			add short descriptions to blue buttons when you pass over them