New College of DuPage weather website up

[Tyler Allison]

I especially hate extra clicks to reveal menu items, especially when there is plenty of screen real estate there to just show the links in the first place.

I've passed this to the web dev.

IMHO, the biggest mistake was the way all (or at least all of the ones I tried) of the old links just 404 now, instead of redirecting to the new place. That is really gonna hurt COD's SEO and makes headaches all the way down the line for anybody who linked to COD. I would have argued for at least putting the new design side by side with the old interface so that people would have the option of which to choose. That also would have given Google time to learn to rank the new pages.

Given that the COD website is maintained by volunteers we simply didn't have enough time to track down all the old links, figure out what the new links are, and then write a 10,000 line apache rewrite rule (no seriously, 10,000+)

Also...we don't have enough equipment to process two sets of everything, which is what would be needed for to run side-by-side. We had to work with what we had so we did a cold-turkey cut over. We know it sucks...but we didn't have any choice given what we had to work with.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but is anyone else having problems with the NEXRAD site loops randomly jumping around? Looks like some of the site data is pulling in hour-old frames at random intervals.

 

[rdale]

NOAAPORT is having major issues (yet again and again and again) sending old data. That's probably what is happening.