Website Sustainability

The aim of this project is to transfer the website of the East Midlands Knowledge Network ( http://www.emkn.org.uk/ ) to the free web creation and web hosting service – Google Sites, in order to save the useful resources and make them available after the original web site is closed. Google Sites is a free tool to quickly create and publish web pages and it is available under: https://sites.google.com/ . In order to use the service, it is required to have a Google Account which is also free. Since I have both Google Account and a little experience in creating Google Sites (I set up a website for my maths group project, 2 years ago) I thought that the task would be fairly easy. The EMKN original website looks nice and modern, but it is made only with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. All the data is static and there is no database or server-side scripting behind the website. Setting up the page is very quick, the user just needs to fill in a form where they choose properties of the website, suc...

A Google Site has been started at  site  as in Figure 1. Figure 1 Starting Page One of the areas that has been focussed on setting up the services menu as can be seen  https://sites.google.com/site/emknorg/services  at the moment the image links to pages with their content missing. Figure 2 Starting page Problems found and addressed. Google Sites is restrictive on where certain features can be placed, such as the main image on this page. The image on this page had be handled a little differently as well.  It had to have it's own Google Gadget as an xml file and managed to recreate the colourful menu. It looks almost exactly the same as the original one. There was an initially a problem with the links but this  was fixed by adding  target="_parent"  to every link. An area that is being worked on curent is the interactive map shown in figure 1 at the moment only a portion is being used. This work has been supported by fu...