The LNCD website was in need to updating, so I have taken the lead in creating the new site. Nick Jackson Provided the new LNCD logo, which was decided on via peer review along with the colour. A number of colours were looked at but there was no real logic to the colour to reflect the group as it was chosen mostly on the number of people who liked it. Majority rules, so it was chosen along with the white version of the logo. Using the CWD, I made a template for the site using the University crest and LNCD logo.
CWD
The CWD has recently been updated by Alex Bilbie to version 4.0. Now it is almost entirely twitter bootstrap, any additions to the bootstrap framework from Twitter can easily be implemented into future versions. So the LNCD site has used this to keep consistency with other sites in the University. The CWD used bootstrap before, but only partially. The new version uses the entirety of Bootstrap so all functionality is available. A custom css file is used in the LNCD site to overwrite any css from the CWD. This is simply for customisation for certain aspects of the site, but not so it is no longer recognised as using CWD.
Blogs and Projects
I have imported Blog posts from the Lincoln blogs platform along with the database of past and present projects. The website can now stay up to date with both these sources. Jamie Mahoney provided some initial content and the method form extracting the projects out of the database.
Changes
The content from the old site was ported driectly across to the new site, but a few changes, additions and deletions have been made.
Kept:
- Contributors
- Current Projects
- Past Projects
Removed:
- Funding
- Calendar
The Calendar is still on the site, but is the link to it us currently hidden as there are no upcoming events.