WebSite Revision Discussion
Oct 5th 2011 @ 12 PT / 13 MT

Attending: Amber, Rebecca, Laura, Grace, Chris

Posters to be printed at end of week:
1.Home - Some changes needed
2. About>DataONE Organization - Good to print (once header issues resolved)
3. EVA page - once images in, good to print
4. Products>BP landing - life cycle diagram fix, text needed from Amber
5.ST>Vistrails - USE Taverna instead (more content, better example)
6. Education>Training activities

Status Updates:
ITEMS ADDRESSED
Front Page

•     Site Search 
•    Twitter feed - holding spot for CCIT? Replace with CCIT image (e.g. MN map) with word incidating "Access ONEMercury" or some such?  
•    Too many fonts - stick within san serif
•    Put dots back
•    Links change to bold - this makes things jump.  Change method of roll over
•    Social media icons smaller?  Also, align with line and/or word above
•    Footer font - smaller?
•    Speed of scrolling news too slow?
•    Background color - can it be less dark?
•    Black panel for picture label  - increase transparency?  reduce words?
• Tab Info - give logo transparent background and make DataONE one word (as in current website)
•    8pt buffers throughout

General

• Drop down alignment - should align. style similar to aekos. org.au but use same size tabs 
• ITK comes out from under Data
• Landing page - need to have one?  if so, need to have content. No landing page - make ONEMercury page have content.
• ONEMercury shouldn't be two words

DataONE Organization

• Org Chart -  color changes to pums and teals, include names, change one of the WG names - Rebecca to send. Org chart elements to be links.
• "THE Organization" - drop "the"
• CCIT - spell out
• About DataONE - reduce to About so it matches boxes

EVA

• Amber to send images and credits for EVA page.  Amber to edit pages.

Best Practices

• Tag cloud - include color?
• Move 'Products Links' to top and reduce to 'Products'
• Order of LHS elements: Products>Featured>Tags>FIF
• Tags correction - desribe and Describe

Vistrails

• Items to go after colons
• 'Contributor' to be removed and used for behind the scenes stuff only
  
  
  
  

ITEMS REMAINING??
Front Page

•    Alignment - Align DataONE Logo with picture panel -completed.Not yet- revisit
•    Latest News - links to news page? - completed need to check
•    Picture panel - takes you to relevant content as opposed to a news item

General - Check

• Breadcrumbs - don't always followONEMercury comes out form under Products.

ST>Vistrails

• Tags to be horizontal - tags are now displayed on one single line.
• If additional info box is filled, that would start below subhead and not to right of colon (the one exception)l -completed.
  
  
  
  

NEW ITEMS

• Plum social network logos - completed.
• space between logo and tags on software tools (remove word logo:) - word logo removed  Also added top spacing between the logo and  tags.
• fix datalifecycle graphic
• add images to EVA workgroup
• Amber to work on BP landing page text
• create pages for 2010 and 2011 training activities fix lhs past training block - fixed to '2010' and '2011'
• Amber to update old site training page 
• Updated Best Practices URLs to display "../best-practice/..Best_Practice" as opposed to "../content/..Best_Practice" -- Also made sure BP tag cloud is displayed on every Best Practice page.
• Updated Software Tools URLs to display "../software-tool/..Software_Tool" as opposed to "../content/..Software_Tool" -- Also made sure ST tag cloud is displayed on every Best Practice page.