Website Organization

Hello World! After receiving very valuable and useful feedback on the submission tutorial, most of this week was spent focusing on website organization, structure, and stylization. These are really important concepts when it comes to creating a successful website. It plays into the amount of traffic your website gets, and Continue reading Website Organization

Sending the Tutorial out for Feedback and Communications

Hello, World! This week I dove into a different page on DataONE’s website, called the “landing page”. It’s called this because it is the first page you arrive at when you are looking through DataONE’s repository for educational materials. This page has two main purposes: It’s a directory for all Continue reading Sending the Tutorial out for Feedback and Communications

Getting the Tutorial Ready for Feedback

Hello World! For project 1, this week involved a lot of further self-editing and reworking of the tutorial before it is sent out for users to test out and give feedback on. The tutorial is available now on my GitHub repository for testing! Some of the main changes I made Continue reading Getting the Tutorial Ready for Feedback

“Video Section” and Reworking the Webpage

Hello, World! This week I finished up adding the “How to Submit a Video” section and re-worked the webpage so that more of the submission instructions were individualized based on content type. To submit a video to DataONE’ Data Management Skillbuilding Hub, all you need is a markdown file and Continue reading “Video Section” and Reworking the Webpage

Rewriting in HTML and Secondary Steps

Hello, World! This week I dove into the secondary steps.In other words, DataONE wants the public to be able to edit and contribute their own educational materials; however the steps that you need to follow in order to contribute to DataONE’s repository is different depending on your submission type. I Continue reading Rewriting in HTML and Secondary Steps

Week 3 – Primary Steps Continued and Serving with Jekyll

Hello, World! This week I was able to flesh out the primary steps a lot more. I found myself concentrating a lot on the overall organization of the page, and looked through GitHub to see if other repositories had “contributing.md” files from which I could draw inspiration. From the examples Continue reading Week 3 – Primary Steps Continued and Serving with Jekyll

Week 2 – Primary Steps and First Attempts at Creating with Markdown

Hello, World! This week I had a great time exploring the DataONE GitHub repository and starting on the technical tutorial. To reiterate, the main goal for Project 1 is to create a tutorial which shows how to contribute educational materials to DataONE’s Data Management Skillbuilding Hub. The tutorial would ideally Continue reading Week 2 – Primary Steps and First Attempts at Creating with Markdown

Week 1 – Explaining DataONE and Exploring GitHub

My name is Saraneh Fitzgerald, and I am the intern working on Project 1: Tools to enhance community driven data management education. This week, I flew out to California to meet my primary adviser, Megan Mach, in person. In a video-conference with Megan, my secondary adviser Dave Vieglais, Amber Budden Continue reading Week 1 – Explaining DataONE and Exploring GitHub