From the rooftop to the UW home page!
In collaboration with the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, we are now providing local weather data on the UW home page. Two standout features: The temperature is taken directly from the Atmospheric Sciences building rooftop, and an in-depth Seattle/UW forecast is available by clicking the weather tab (top right, just above the search box). A big thanks to Harry Edmon and his team at Atmospheric Sciences for helping us provide this new and useful service.
Under the hood: We have added a script that "turns off" the weather feature in the unlikely event the data feed from Atmospheric Sciences goes down. That ensures that old, outdated weather data doesn't become "resident" on the home page if fresh data is unavailable. So if you ever go to the home page and notice the weather's missing, that likely means the feed is down. In case we don't notice right away, feel free to fire off a message to uweb@uw.edu. Thanks!
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We manage the UW home page and other top-level pages and sites, created the UW Alert banner and interactive campus map, and made the design for the UW's new iPhone app. Next up? A Web redesign. Follow our progress on this blog!
The Web Team includes:
• Gina Hills - Manager
• Chris Heiland - Developer
• Jeff Hendrickson - Editor
• Kilian Frey - Designer
• Tim Chang-Miller - Producer
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January 31st, 2011 - 13:43
Nice touch — I really like it!