From akrherz at iastate.edu Thu Jan 1 00:33:28 2009 From: akrherz at iastate.edu (akrherz@iastate.edu) Date: Thu Jan 1 00:33:37 2009 Subject: [SchoolNet8 News] January Feature and December Stats Message-ID: Greetings All! Perhaps I am the first to wish you a Happy New Year via email :) Well, it is time to send out the monthly update. KCCI SchoolNet8 Homepage: http://www.kcci.com/schoolnet8/ Or directly at: http://www.schoolnet8.com SchoolNet8 Notes ================ Many of you already know the unfortunate news that happened in December, Jason Parkin was laid off at KCCI due to budget cuts... He was instrumental in keeping the SchoolNet8 project going and will be deeply missed. The SchoolNet8 Project will continue, but it will be more of a challenge to keep up with maintenance concerns. I will try my best to help out, but I can't visit sites during the weekdays like Jason could. Please feel free to contact me regarding any issues you have or continue using the schoolnet8@yahoo.com address. December Website Stats ====================== The attached PDF contains website stats for December 2008. If you have any questions, please let me know. New features for January ======================== At the risk of getting an onslaught of emails for changing the website, I am trying something a bit different with the main page. It now features a google map widget type app with a click interface to view webcam and single site images. The widget also contains KCCI SuperDopplerHD imagery along with an optional nationwide NEXRAD composite. It took me many moons to get this working on Internet Explorer, but I wouldn't doubt some bugs exist. If you have troubles, please let me know. The "orthophotography" app was updated as well. We will see how these changes fly before rolling out my next wave of updates next month. The goal is to make things a bit more interactive and keep folks interested in the site. Well, that is it for this month. Please let me know if you have any suggestions! Development is driven by your needs. Later, daryl -- /** * Daryl Herzmann * Assistant Scientist -- Iowa Environmental Mesonet * http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu */ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: kcciStats_0812.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 22121 bytes Desc: Url : http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/pipermail/kccisnet-announce/attachments/20090101/e681ecfb/kcciStats_0812.pdf