[Media] IVOA website: front page example

[Deborah Baines]

Dear Jamie,

Many thanks for sending the draft front page, I think it's a great start!

Here are some inputs to your questions:

1.  Does the layout match the expectations laid out at our last 
meeting?  Is there any content missing you think should be there?
      - Missing currently:  menu bar, header image, footer navigation, a 
short IVOA description?

I think we definitely need an About link, and/or a 'What is the VO?' 
link (which is frequently asked by first time visitors). This could fit 
in a menu bar or footer.

One request that came from the Exec last year was to add the @IVOAastro 
twitter feed (embed the timeline). Unfortunately, these normally do not 
cover the whole width of a web page, so I don't see easily how it can 
fit into the current web design? Perhaps we don't add it since it can't 
be viewed in all countries? Maybe some of the news that are announced in 
the first two blocks link directly to the relevant news posted in our 
social media sites?

header image idea: mosaic of colour images, of selected imaging data in 
the VO, spanning from x-ray to radio (could be created from colour HiPS)?

      - Any layout / color ideas?

I prefer a dark background like your Chandra website http://cxc.harvard.edu/

I have very little experience in web development, I hope someone else 
can help who does have experience!

Thanks and regards,
Debbie


On 11/05/18 19:07, Budynkiewicz, Jamie Anne wrote:
> Dear Media Group and CSP,
>
> As an action from yesterday's telecon,  here is a screenshot of the 
> *draft* front page I was working on. It's mostly just the information 
> we talked about from our meeting in January -- I didn't work out 
> colors / fonts at all.  But I used the wireframe we made on this 
> Google doc as a reference for the front page layout: 
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fz49i6c_DaoyoZ81RPiDaHWGHfnb2UbW_9nOmIJdd2A/edit#slide=id.g327bd6a3f5_0_0
>
>   - The first image bar shows technical news (new standards, new 
> archive releases, upcoming abstract/meeting deadlines, etc).  The idea 
> was to make it into small boxes, showing a couple announcements at a time.
>   - The second, larger image block is a slider of the latest science 
> news that the more general scientist may be interested in.  This is a 
> dynamic slider made from wordpress posts.  We could also make our own 
> news slider from an RSS feed.
>   - The bottom part is the "information portal" with the important / 
> popular links, sending visitors to the right places.
>
>
> I made the pages with a local Wordpress install on my laptop since the 
> free test Wordpress blog we made in Santiago doesn't allow one to 
> install plugins or edit the CSS / PHP files. However, this may not 
> have been the best way to go, as I'm having trouble exporting this 
> site to HTML to send to you all...  I'll work on getting the site 
> exported, but I'll also try working on the test site to see if we can 
> get news sliders on it to show at the Interop.
>
> **For those who have experience in web development, please speak up! 
> I'd like to get the front page in a format we can send to people to 
> view locally on their computers, or on a test site (e.g., the free 
> Wordpress blog).
>
> In summary, here's what I'm looking for:
>
> 1.  Does the layout match the expectations laid out at our last 
> meeting?  Is there any content missing you think should be there?
>      - Missing currently:  menu bar, header image, footer navigation, 
> a short IVOA description?
>      - Any layout / color ideas?
>
> 2.  People to help work on getting a working front page for the 
> Interop meeting
>      -  e.g., self-contained site that we can package and send 
> around,  test Wordpress site, any other ideas?
>
> 3.  Comments / questions / concerns?
>
> I'll be on the #media Slack channel if anyone wants to have a more 
> interactive conversation, too. https://ivoa.slack.com/messages/media
>
> Lastly, apologies for procrastinating the website revamp 
> organization.  I appreciate everyone's inputs from meetings and 
> emails, and I'm happy we're getting back to business for the Interop. 
> Looking forward to seeing you all in person soon!
>
> Thanks and warm regards,
> Jamie
>
> -- 
> Jamie A. Budynkiewicz
> Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
> Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
> 100 Acorn Park Dr. R-377 MS-81
> Cambridge, MA 02140
>
>
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