site redesign

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Brian Chitester Send message Joined: 1 Jun 10 Posts: 5 Credit: 4,275 RAC: 0	Message 40286 - Posted: 8 Jun 2010, 14:52:29 UTC Hey guys, my name is Brian Chitester and I've just joined the Milkyway@home research team at RPI for the summer! One thing that I am working on is redesigning the project website. So far I've be focusing on organizational tweaks but I wanted to see what you, the users, would like to see more (or less) of on the site. Any suggestions are welcome, I look forward to hearing your thoughts! ID: 40286 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Divide Overflow Send message Joined: 16 Feb 09 Posts: 109 Credit: 11,089,510 RAC: 0	Message 40290 - Posted: 8 Jun 2010, 20:14:13 UTC - in response to Message 40286. Welcome Brian! It would be great to get some sort of blog from the astronomers / science team reviewing the data. ID: 40290 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Arif Mert Kapicioglu Send message Joined: 14 Dec 09 Posts: 161 Credit: 589,318,064 RAC: 0	Message 40291 - Posted: 8 Jun 2010, 20:14:53 UTC Last modified: 8 Jun 2010, 20:15:26 UTC I would like to see dynamic tables of fitness values updated every twenty minutes like in Einstein@Home. The twenty minute update isn't important; but dynamic fitness value tables would be awesome. What i mean is that as the user moves mouse within the values of "individuals analyzed", the "fitness values" in y-axis change accordingly. ID: 40291 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

The Gas Giant Send message Joined: 24 Dec 07 Posts: 1947 Credit: 240,884,648 RAC: 0	Message 40292 - Posted: 8 Jun 2010, 20:29:41 UTC Last modified: 8 Jun 2010, 20:30:03 UTC Can you put the "Your account" link just under the "Message boards (forums)" link on the Home page. It'd be nice not to have to scroll down the page a little to get to it. ID: 40292 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Purple Rabbit Send message Joined: 9 Nov 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 128,043,914 RAC: 0	Message 40293 - Posted: 8 Jun 2010, 22:07:50 UTC - in response to Message 40292. Last modified: 8 Jun 2010, 22:13:12 UTC Can you put the "Your account" link just under the "Message boards (forums)" link on the Home page. It'd be nice not to have to scroll down the page a little to get to it. Yeah, what he said :) Hopefully BOINC doesn't revert all the nice changes back to the default at the next update. ID: 40293 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Brian Chitester Send message Joined: 1 Jun 10 Posts: 5 Credit: 4,275 RAC: 0	Message 40406 - Posted: 15 Jun 2010, 17:51:06 UTC Last modified: 15 Jun 2010, 17:52:39 UTC Here's a screen shot of the new main page, it will be online soon. I still need to do a bit of testing on the server side to make sure everything works nicely. Let me know what you guys think so I can make changes before it gets finalized: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30409/milkyway_ss.png ID: 40406 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Chris S Send message Joined: 20 Sep 08 Posts: 1391 Credit: 203,563,566 RAC: 0	Message 40420 - Posted: 15 Jun 2010, 21:17:17 UTC Looks OK to me. How about a link on there to the latest Boinc Manager download? Don't drink water, that's the stuff that rusts pipes ID: 40420 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TJ Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 262 Credit: 92,631,041 RAC: 0	Message 40422 - Posted: 15 Jun 2010, 21:43:01 UTC - in response to Message 40406. This looks like a "clean" site Brian. I like it a lot. Greetings from, TJ ID: 40422 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Ironworker16 Send message Joined: 31 Jan 09 Posts: 31 Credit: 69,908,565 RAC: 0	Message 40427 - Posted: 16 Jun 2010, 3:47:59 UTC - in response to Message 40406. Thumbs up, I like it! ID: 40427 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bruce Send message Joined: 28 Apr 08 Posts: 1415 Credit: 2,716,428 RAC: 0	Message 40453 - Posted: 17 Jun 2010, 1:08:55 UTC Kool! ID: 40453 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Chris S Send message Joined: 20 Sep 08 Posts: 1391 Credit: 203,563,566 RAC: 0	Message 40475 - Posted: 17 Jun 2010, 11:17:12 UTC OK, one last suggestion how about a box with the top 5 teams in it showing work done? Don't drink water, that's the stuff that rusts pipes ID: 40475 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Aurora Borealis Send message Joined: 13 Sep 09 Posts: 20 Credit: 5,662,415 RAC: 0	Message 40503 - Posted: 18 Jun 2010, 7:37:17 UTC - in response to Message 40475. Last modified: 18 Jun 2010, 8:04:06 UTC OK, one last suggestion how about a box with the top 5 teams in it showing work done? Please don't. Crunching should not be about the competition for numbers. Although I acknowledge that teams do contribute a great deal to get new project off the ground, they should not be given such a prominent position. In the long run individual interest in a project is what makes it successful, not catering to the more fickle interest of number chasing individuals or teams as has been shown historically at Seti. Questions? Answers are in the BOINC Wiki. Boinc V7.0.27 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470 ID: 40503 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TJ Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 262 Credit: 92,631,041 RAC: 0	Message 40505 - Posted: 18 Jun 2010, 9:23:21 UTC - in response to Message 40503. I agree. Greetings from, TJ ID: 40505 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Chris S Send message Joined: 20 Sep 08 Posts: 1391 Credit: 203,563,566 RAC: 0	Message 40509 - Posted: 18 Jun 2010, 12:40:26 UTC Last modified: 18 Jun 2010, 12:41:11 UTC Ok, it was just a suggestion, no probs :-)) Don't drink water, that's the stuff that rusts pipes ID: 40509 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Brian Chitester Send message Joined: 1 Jun 10 Posts: 5 Credit: 4,275 RAC: 0	Message 40524 - Posted: 18 Jun 2010, 18:56:28 UTC Last modified: 18 Jun 2010, 18:57:24 UTC Alright, the new site is online! I'm still working out a few minor bugs but, if anyone wants to take it for a test drive you can go to http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/index_new.php. Let me know if you guys see anything that's broken/weird. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated! ID: 40524 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote