Website updates at ATP

- for the department and for the three research areas

The department of astronomy and theoretical physics website (www.atp.lu.se) needs to be updated (again). This because we must follow the guidelines drawn up by the Government Interoperability Board and the guidelines of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) by the organisation W3C.

Once www.atp.lu.se has been updated the three research pages (astro, tpp and cbbp) also need updating and thereafter all webpages for individual researchers.

Current websites are located on three different servers:

(current) members of the web-group:

Carl Troein
Ross Church
Eva Jurlander
Stefan Prestel
Anna S. Arnadottir

Our mission is:

To try to understand the new web accessibility directive
To publish and accessibility statement on each website
To form a long term strategy (in collaboration with the department prefects) for where to host our sites, what system we want to use and who should administrate them.
Build and publish websites that comply with the new web accessibility directive.

Directive (EU) 2016/2102, in force since 22 December 2016, will provide people with disabilities with better access to the websites and mobile apps of public services.

Comparing Typo3 to Drupal

Typo3 pros:

www.atp.lu.se is already hosted there
Internal site that requires lucat-ID login
Time limited elements

Typo3 cons:

Editing rights for employees needs to be approved by the LTH web department.
Difficult to reach the LTH web department
Experience shows that those with access do not spend much time editing the website.

Drupal pros:

Drupal 8 just came out and has the "new look" already
Better support available
3 access levels: Admin, editor, writer
Online course for editors and administrators of system.
Writer access can be distributed rather freely among the staff
Admin rights will lie with someone at the department
Staff websites can be generated automatically, and then edited by members of staff
Drupal is technically better than Typo3 when it comes to the accessibility directive

Drupal cons:

No closed internal pages with login
All our pages need to be rebuilt from scratch

Action points

Apply for Drupal access
Administrators need to complete the course
Re-building the websites, starting with www.atp.lu.se
Launch www.atp.lu.se (and thereby stop using Typo3)
Keep pc500 and Willam for now, but start building the "research" sites (astro, cbbp, tpp) on Drupal
Eventually: Move all research sites and personal websites to Drupal, keeping only minimum amount of content on our own webservers.
Far future??: Shut down our own web-servers??