The ASI web site had another quiet month in April, with no system
problems reported. The backlog in the Web Formatting and Editing stages of
the ASI web system began to clear out as the Web and Editing teams worked
hard to catch up on the outstanding update requests. The Missing Links
project contributed a significant number of new update requests, as Bobby
Will and Jeremy Kraemer tackled several key sections of the ADB.
During April, a total of 188 updates were published to the ASI web
site, including 38 new documents, 99 modifications to existing documents,
15 deleted documents, 35 moved documents, and 1 renamed document. The
latest updates bring the total number of documents on the ASI web site to
2108 HTML documents and 792 GIF and JPEG images. Most of the work in
editing and approving the updates was done by Luanne Jorewicz, Bobby Will,
Greg Bennett, John Wertz, Leah Simpson, Candace Dicks, Jeremy Kraemer, and
Ian Strock. Some of the new documents and other updates were submitted by
Tim Cadell, Paul Morris, and Richard Marsden.
The April ECTC IRC meeting spent a significant time on Web Team
projects, as well as the newly restarted ASI Site Design project. Tim
Cadell's "Web Ring" program sparked a lot of discussion as well, as
potential uses for the program were discussed in a lengthy brainstorming
session.
May
The ASI web site continued to improve in May, as the Missing Links
project continued to clean up link problems on the site. Although a high
volume of updates continued to go through the ASI web system, the Web and
Editing teams were able to keep up with the update requests and no
significant backlogs developed.
During May, a total of 158 updates were published to the ASI web site,
including 62 new documents, 79 modifications to existing documents, 9
deleted documents, 7 moved documents, and 1 renamed document. The latest
updates bring the total number of documents on the ASI web site to 2136
HTML documents and 834 GIF and JPEG images. Most of the work in editing
and approving the updates was done by Luanne Jorewicz, Leah Simpson, Greg
Bennett, John Wertz, Ian Randal Strock, Candace Dicks, Jeremy Kraemer, Tim
Cadell, and Simon Rowland. Some of the new documents and other updates
were submitted by Richard Perry, Predrag Lezaic, Kurt Klaus, Joelle Cowan,
and Charles Collier.
The Web Team projects were again a key topic at the May ECTC IRC
meeting, along with continued discussion about the ASI Site Design project.
John Peel completed the new header and footer templates, ending the first
phase of that Web Team project. John Wertz generated a new set of Missing
Links reports, which provide an updated set of missing links that need
correction.