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New LIR Website. Glenn Wearen HEAnet / LIR Committee. The LIR website 1.0. Static HTML Edit and upload by ftp Handcoded styling fonts, tables etc. Read-only. The LIR website 2.0. Dynamic content easy to edit by LIR committee RSS Feeds & Publishing User interaction
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New LIR Website Glenn Wearen HEAnet / LIR Committee
The LIR website 1.0 • Static HTML • Edit and upload by ftp • Handcoded styling • fonts, tables etc. • Read-only
The LIR website 2.0 • Dynamic content • easy to edit by LIR committee • RSS • Feeds & Publishing • User interaction • poll’s, comments, registration forms • User login • twitter, LinkedIn & Edugate • Secure area for committee documents • Minutes & drafts
Website refresh... new hosting? • Continue with traditional hosting, use client-side scripting (Javascript) for dynamic content. • Free hosting (Google sites etc). • Hosted Content Management System (CMS) • Cloud solution • Public • Private • Hybrid
Where to host? Future User location probably not a concern On his/her campus on A campus off-campus User location Past on-campus private cloud community cloud public cloud Service location
Final decision • Move to hosted CMS, provided by HEAnet Long standing free hosting agreement with HEAnet