by rstevenson » Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:00 pm
And while they're at it, make it fully compatible with all screen sizes and devices, using either an adaptive or a responsive design. (They're slightly different concepts.).
But having said that, you should know that...
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). [from it's Wikipedia page]
Also, the APOD image selection and writing are done by Dr. Robert J. Nemiroff and Dr. Jerry T. Bonnell, on a volunteer basis.
I don't think it is any one person's job to work on the code structure of the APOD page, though perhaps a few students could be enticed to do so from time to time.
I think there might be some issues with redesigning and recoding the original APOD page, because there are now more than 20 other APOD pages in other languages hosted on other servers. And there are secondary applications which depend on pulling content from APOD to display it as desktop wallpaper, and I suspect at least some of them would cease working properly the day the newly recoded page was put up on the server.
Your suggestion is sound and agreeable to me, but I suspect not to the people behind APOD. And, of course, there will be the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" crowd, which I'm sure we'll hear from shortly.
Rob
And while they're at it, make it fully compatible with all screen sizes and devices, using either an adaptive or a responsive design. (They're slightly different concepts.).
But having said that, you should know that...
[quote]Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). [from it's Wikipedia page][/quote]
Also, the APOD image selection and writing are done by Dr. Robert J. Nemiroff and Dr. Jerry T. Bonnell, on a volunteer basis.
I don't think it is any one person's job to work on the code structure of the APOD page, though perhaps a few students could be enticed to do so from time to time.
I think there might be some issues with redesigning and recoding the original APOD page, because there are now more than 20 other APOD pages in other languages hosted on other servers. And there are secondary applications which depend on pulling content from APOD to display it as desktop wallpaper, and I suspect at least some of them would cease working properly the day the newly recoded page was put up on the server.
Your suggestion is sound and agreeable to me, but I suspect not to the people behind APOD. And, of course, there will be the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" crowd, which I'm sure we'll hear from shortly.
Rob