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ATLAS Public Pages. A proposal for development. Executive Summary . Problems with Current Site Short v isitor r etention Poor design Missing key functionality Outdated technology Inaccessibility of infrastructure Proposed Solution Drupal CERN Hosting Market Survey Development Plan. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ATLAS Public PagesA proposal for development
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Executive Summary Problems with Current Site
Short visitor retention Poor design Missing key functionality Outdated technology Inaccessibility of infrastructure
Proposed Solution Drupal CERN Hosting Market Survey
Development Plan
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Problems: Symptoms Average Visits
Average page views / month: 95,000 Average visits / day: 1,500 Average visit duration: 1m 40s Bounce Rate: 73% (50% considered not good, 70% disaster)
Who stays or comes back? New viewers: 64% 76% of visits last 1-10 seconds 73% of visitors look at 1 page 59% of visitors come once and do not return (in 1 year)
What do they visit? Home 44%, Photos 15%, News 14%, Rest under 3% each
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Problems: Design Lack of clear organizational structure, hierarchy
Repeated tabs at different levels
Lack of intuitive navigability No consistent navigation bars on each page No easy return to original home
Lack of consistent theme, templates ATLAS visual identity should be obvious and consistent Navigation bars, tools should be easy to find
No search functionality
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Problems: Functionality Difficult to Contribute to Content Development
Example: Educational pages for students, teachers Example: Social Science pages for polls, studies No protected work space for developers No way to bring in collaboration to develop, edit
Complicated Procedure for News Articles Drafts circulated as Word files Email Iterations with writers / editors / approvers Lack of control over final presentation
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Problems: Functionality Problems with Multimedia Content Handling
Local copy of images and videos No embedding from CDS Images not individually linkable Missing links to high-resolution sources Lack of enforced “Terms of Use” form
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Problems: Technology Mainly static html + some scripts
No RSS feeds for news
No content management Cannot develop, manage content remotely Cannot version content Cannot set up work flow for editing, approval
No interlink between on-line platforms Blog, Social Media CDS, Other databases
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Problems: Infrastructure Hosting
Servers, Webmaster located at LBNL Web Designer on Outreach budget
O.K. But 9 time zones away
Maintenance Maintenance provided by LBNL
Also 9 time zones away
Unknowns For how long will this last? Will it always be “free”?
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Problems: Summary Dysfunctional Work Environment
Wastes effort of Outreach, Management Prevents additional contribution from Collaboration
Control Outreach Coordination must control the pages We feel impeded to develop Projects are on hold because of this
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Solutions: Drupal Content Management
Remote Development, Editing Content Sharing, Versioning Work Flow with Protection, Publishing Themes/Templates for Design Searchability, Navigability
Why Drupal? Most commonly used Open Source CMS Modules for most common functionality Installed, Developed, Maintained by CERN
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Solution: CERN Hosting CERN has offered support
Drupal installed and used for new CERN pages Standard modules in place and being maintained DG-COM developers (Dan Noyes) willing to help IT-OIS (Tim Bell) offer infrastructure, maintenance
Now is the time Work-flow models recently worked out Interfaces to CDS, e-groups, calendars being developed Changing now will allow our input to be taken into account
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Solution: Market Survey Market Survey (2 Months)
Drafted Requirements Briefed, analysed and invited 8 firms
Examined proposals, companies, sites Interviewed 3, seriously discussed 2
Lessons from Market Survey Instead of developing the project based on assumptions
developers do research through user experience First step is a “discovery phase”
identify problems and deliver a blue print for the project Next are design and development Sprints;
Each sprint has clear deliverables
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Development PlanOverall Plan
Discovery Phase Kick-off meeting and discussion of the background of the project in
detail 5 days of stakeholder research Audience research Strategy workshops to define the scope of the work Architecture diagrams Process Flows UI sketches and Visual Design Concept
Development Phase by Sprints Design sprint (Experience strategy and informational architecture,
design research, Website prototyping, design interaction) Development sprints (Drupal theming)
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Appendices Details on various aspects of the decisions and the project
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The CERN Web Pages ENTICE Working Group
Chaired by Dave Foster Input, Requirements from Experiments, Departments, Groups Made Decision to Install Drupal Open Source CMS
Porting of CERN Web Pages Redo Public Pages Provide Templates for Internal Sites Train Developers for Divisions, Groups
Design Hired Professional Firm of Marc Boulton
Designer of Drupal Web Site (and many others) Close Interactions with CERN Stakeholders
Workshops, Meetings, Development Blog Identification, Interviews with Target Audience
Infrastructure Maintenance by IT-OIS
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CERN Support (Tim Bell) Hardware
CERN IT budget covers the cost of the hardware and maintenance of those systems assuming reasonable use
Drupal Maintenance Drupal and MySQL are open source so there is no pure software
costs but there are the administration costs which are currently covered by the IT staff plan
New Modules Installation of new modules can be performed onto each site by the
site manager themselves. There is no need for IT support to perform these operations
Modules which are frequently used are reviewed with the ENTICE user community and may be ‘promoted’ to centrally managed modules which IT will ensure are kept up to date.
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CERN Support (Tim Bell) Support
Support for problems is handled through the helpdesk portal (Drupal Infrastructure). These tickets fall within the standard support levels for IT services (i.e. working hours only).
IT provides support for the infrastructure only (i.e. web servers, database, machines, network, authentication with e-groups, backup, site creation/cloning/etc). The content creation and module usage is not covered within the scope of the Drupal Infrastructure service.
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