NCSD Webmaster Updates
2019 Winter Presentations
Just had some time to upload the 2019 winter presentations. It took a while, but boy was that a headache. Having to sort through different file names and connecting them to authors. Anyhow, it is up there now, along with the download counter.
2020 New Year Resolution!
Happy New Years to all that reads this sad NCSD webmaster updates (blog?). For those that do read it, maybe you have a bit too much free time in hand.
My new year resolution is to work more efficiently; this generally means think before taking actions. Hopefully this would allow me to do more (whatever that means) in the bigger picture of things.
And also, general ANS NCSD website updates and stuff (here and there, too many little things to list).
File download counter – 2019-03-12
Added file download counter to NCS Whitepapers. This can be expanded to other files that we want statistics on, however it is a manual process, and the counter starts at “0” at the time of implementation (so you wouldn’t know how many has been downloaded prior to implementation)
2018 Winter Gallery 2018-12-03
Uploaded the pictures taken from the 2018 Winter Meeting, along with some other minor updates.
2018 ANS Summer meeting presentations – 2018-07-09
The PowerPoint presentation for the 2018 Annual ANS Meeting has been uploaded (or at least ones with presenter agreement).
They are under the individual conference webpage.
Pictures pictures ugh pictures – 2018-06-23
It has been long debated on quality of pictures vs. speed in which they are loaded while accessing them via gallery from each meeting.
I’ve made the decision to move all pictures from individual meetings/conferences to Flickr, instead of uploading them onto the ANS server.
This has a few advantages and disadvantages
Pro:
Flickr auto compress images and optimize them between size and speed
Less space taking on ANS server for hosting the pictures
Flickr has better user interface
Con:
Images are not in one location, and it is up to the webmaster to know where it is
Images are hosted under MY personal account, and access to other website administrator is difficult
Anyhow, I’ll allow comments on this post (if anyone… would event comment that is) for those that wish to discuss this.
NCSD Governance page update – 2018-06-22
Updated the Governance page to reflect the changes in NCSD governance body.
Pioneer Scholarship page update – 2018-06-03
Updated the scholarship page to include all the recipients. Also updated pictures to the same size for consistency.
Communication Committee Page update – 2018-04-27
Updated the Communication Committee Page Purpose, Responsibilities as well as the lead table for each communication tool.
Committee page(s) – updates 2018-03-19
Many of the committee pages have been updated to include/update Membership Requirements section.
Honors and Awards – 2018-02-24
With inputs from Larry, I’ve manually compressed the pictures for full screen viewing, as well as having a separate resized image for grid display, this should help the loading of images on slower connections.
Contact Us Page – 2018-02-04
Updated the Contact Us page to include the NCSD Website Change Request Form.
Also updated Home Page Slider to include KRUSTY.
Standards Page – update 2018-02-02
The excel file for the Standards status page was updated on 2018-02-02 based on information gathered from workspace.ans.org.
Honors and Awards
With inputs from Larry, I’ve updated some pictures associated with the Honors and Awards page. Without knowing the person, it is difficult to figure things out when someone accepts awards for someone else
minors updates
Haven’t been on for a while, provided minor updates to the 100 word summary as well as Pioneer Scholarship page.
100 words summary
Uploaded the 100 words summary under Program Description for 2018 Annual and Winter meetings.
Uploaded 2017 Winter Meeting Minutes
As provided by the NCSD secretary, the approved NCSD meeting minutes was uploaded.
Home page and Meetings page
The HOME page and MEETINGS page now have blog style posts which allows for easier website management.
Webmaster Update page was also updated to add the webmaster bio and website ideas.
2017 Winter Meeting presentations
Added majority of presentations, missing Thursday AM presentations. Will upload those when available.
Honors and Awards, Publications and individual committee pages
The menu associated with honors and awards, publications were updated. Individual committee page were updated to reflect such change. At the moment, individual committee page will include high level committee information.
Ning Zhang
Webmaster
Ning Zhang joined the Communication Committee around the summer of 2016 (although the exact date he cannot recall) as a backup for Larry. He quickly realizes that the effort of maintaining the ANS NCSD website was not an easy task as walk in the park…
Learning how to manage the website is something that he had to learn quickly, and quickly he did. In the process, he crashed the ANS NCSD website a few times, but with the help of ANS head webmaster, the site was able to be restored with no data loss.
Working under the Communication Committee, Ning implements many improvements to the ANS NCSD website with the directions from the Communication Committee chair.
The day-to-day job consists of keeping existing information up-to-date, disseminate any new/relevant information, and not to crash the website by installing too many plugins.
When not breaking the website or other mischievous actions, Ning like to be 1) non-productive, 2) drink coffee, 3) eat steak 4) drink beer 5) shoot trap. Not in that order.
Got a new idea for the website?!
The intent of the ANS NCSD website is to provide relevant and useful information to the NCSD members and public at large. If you have any great ideas that would like to see being implemented on the website, let us know by commenting on this post!