Website

Content/Code

All content and code for DSG WordPress pages can be found in the dsg-test repository on the DSG GitHub.

Special Notes

If the text above the event page needs to be edited, that text is not stored in a regular page. Instead, go to "Settings" under the "Events" option on the left-hand admin panel. Then, click the display tab. Under "advanced template settings" on this tab, it lets you display text before the event content.

Desired Website Improvements

• Fix broken Events listings (which don't show the content of the event entry); Dave DeCamp may be working on this
• Fix link to Podio contact form

• Remove gray bar below navigation bar
• Header image needs to link to DSG home instead of [current page URL]/index.php
• Generally more clean theme (similar to DSC, Academic Tech Services, Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research websites)
• More images (people working on projects, project intake meetings, computer lab, project presentations, events)
• Make typography better?
• The Resources page needs to be reviewed (new resources need to be added? page needs to be reordered? Learn section?)

These may already have been done:

• Better bullet points (properly centered on line, circles or boxes instead of arrows)
• Better sidebar (make light gray/white instead of red/dark gray, make header optional)
• Different colored links (red instead of blue)
• Consider changing font, line spacing (more like DSC website, or use same font as postcards)
• More customization allowed for tables or better default tables
• Remove the DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP GROUP header (is now redundant with the appropriate header image)

Done:

• Nice cycling news feed on front page with large images (something like NULab site)
• Add images to front page in some appropriate way
• DRS Project Toolkit CFP

2016 Website Revisions

General

• Add navigation for subpages to each main page

About

• Move the Staff and FAQ pages from the main navigation to an About subpage

Projects

• Sub navigation for the Projects pages should include:
• Active Projects
  • DSG projects will have title, brief description, and a link to a full description page on the DSG site.
  • Toolkit sites will have a title, description, link to the Toolkit site, and visual clue (badge or flag) to indicate that it is a Toolkit project
• Become a DSG Project
• Project Resources (Current Project Resources, Active Project Resources, just Project Resources?)
  • Service and installation requests
  • Documentation (move Toolkit documentation here)
  • Policies
  • Annual checkin form?

Resources and Services

• Services
  • Store Materials in the DRS/Sarah
  • Map Geospatial Information Systems/Bahare
  • Visualize Data/Steven
  • Journal publishing or Digital Publishing/Hillary
  • TEI and Other Markup Languages/Syd/Ashley
  • Markup Data with TEI and Other Languages
  • Grant writing/Amanda/Julia
  • Data management/Sarah/Amanda/Ashley
  • Move Toolkit documentation to Project Resources page
  • Remove project management and training?
  • Remove DSC computers/Oxygen/software access?
• Resources
  • DRS
  • Oxygen
  • OJS
  • Etc…
• And a link to services for current projects

2017 Website Revisions

• home page
  • redesign (Steven)
  • update images on carousel (Steven)
• print icon separated from text content (Ashley)
• blog and news
  • use shorter, newsier snippets on blog page, and add a link to the full post (Abbie)
  • formatting at the end of the page is ugly (Ashley)
  • /news has redundant content in "News" and "Recent Posts" containers (the only difference is that the News items have dates attached) (Ashley)
  • rethink inclusion of "Recent Posts" box on every page when more useful content could be highlighted (Ashley)
  • About page -- update content (Abbie)
• projects
  • headers should better reflect the hierarchy of their associated content (Abbie)
  • increase contrast between sections (Abbie)
  • draw more visibility to CERES projects (Param)
  • update information on projects (this is general maintenance rather than an improvement) (Param/Abbie)
  • reconsider the division between FAQ and /new-projects information (Param)
  • A place to link out to DSG resources/pedagogical materials (Steven)