2012 Web Working Group Report: Difference between revisions
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*The portal aspect to be kept separate from content. Any content produced by the working group or others should be on separate pages. | *The portal aspect to be kept separate from content. Any content produced by the working group or others should be on separate pages. | ||
*Content can be hosted anywhere including the sever being utilized by the portal (if someone outside the project requests help to host their content) | *Content can be hosted anywhere including the sever being utilized by the portal (if someone outside the project requests help to host their content) | ||
==Infrastructure set up== | ==Infrastructure set up== | ||
Revision as of 07:37, 2 August 2012
The main effort of the Portal working group was to produce a live, working, alpha version of the web portal. substantial discussions preceded the construction and continued through the set up/construction. In some sense the portal serves as the best "report" of the activities. However some notes follow
Philosophy and Choices
- The portal aspect to be kept separate from content. Any content produced by the working group or others should be on separate pages.
- Content can be hosted anywhere including the sever being utilized by the portal (if someone outside the project requests help to host their content)
Infrastructure set up
- The smallangle.org and smallangles.org domains were purchased and registered. Both point to the portal but only the singular will be advertized
- A google apps account was set up for the domain smallangle.org which manages the calendar and mailing groups (e.g. infor@smallangle.org etc)
- Drupal was chosen as the content management software to manage the site.
- Several module were installed to meet our needs (several more will need to be installed before the site is ready for prime time, both in terms of viewing and in terms of long term maintenance)
Site Organization
- There are currently 10 portal pages. The intent is to keep this number to a minimum. These are organized as a landing page linked to 8 subpages plus an "about" page.
- The landing page is the top level page and should stay as clean as possible. it contains only links to the subpages and a scrolling news ticker (and perhaps some kind of graphic logo)
- The eight subpages, organized by topic area feed out to all the content available on the web.
- Some content pages provide by the group were constructed. These will eventually be given a different theme in order to separate them clearly from the actual portal pages
- common to all portal pages:
- the banner area which includes a google translate - users are encouraged to contribute better translations through the google "contribute better translation" button
- the contact "mail too link" is on the footer of every page.
