[EMP2012] weekly status (Halloween edition) - 10/31/12 @ 10am Boo-lder time

[Alisdair Davey]

On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 09:00 -0600, Randy Russell wrote:
> 2) web site update (Igor, Laura) - anything missing?

I have a couple of suggestions re the readability of the web site. 
Disclaimer: my brother has all the artistic talent in the family!

But - I'd rather see all the main text on the home page in the white
area rather than both the orange and white areas, as I find it a little
grating to read now. Also I'd push for the back ground film graphic to
be fainter especially in the area behind the main text as I find it  
again a little harder to read at the moment 

My 5c worth. 

Also Scott the link from the FB page to the web site is still not
correct.
Cheers
A.

> Seems like we need pages that:
> 
> 1) describe how to participate
> 2) form to collect some demographic data about participants (are you 
> student/teacher/general public/amateur astronomer/etc?) Age? Location? 
> Maybe this is the same as the photo upload page - but we should have a 
> way for a person to upload more than one photo (and maybe at different 
> times) without having to re-enter data about themselves each time. Some 
> other Citizen Science projects allow folks to register; then submit 
> reports using their established account/username (see "Single Report" 
> and "Regular Observation" sections of Project BudBurst, for example - 
> http://neoninc.org/budburst/getstarted_occasionalobserver.php - 
> http://neoninc.org/budburst/getstarted_budburstobserver.php)
> 3) describe our intended product - a movie - maybe this should be on the 
> "More About the Project" page?
> 4) How to view an eclipse safely (link out to a good site that someone 
> else has already done?)
> 5) Instructions: how to take eclipse photos
> 6) How to contact us (maybe includes link to our Facebook page?)
> 
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