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State of the Project

The website under-development is currently completely separate from the www.emkn.org site and is hosted on a Google sites site with connections to a Dropbox site (used as at temporary measure)
Main page: sites.google.com/site/emknorg/home


Three examples of other pages are shown below:


Example 1: Networking and Good Practice : sites.google.com/site/emknorg/services/networking-good-practise


Example 2: Technological Services: sites.google.com/site/emknorg/services/technological-services



The flash based Tube image has been converted into a more search engine friendly image map and HTML links and ALT tag describing the link aiding accessibility.
Click here for the image map

Content is being migrated from the dropbox to Google Sites

Google analytics has been added to the site both Google sites and Dropbox to capture that information. Analytics is also add to this blog.

The site is out for consultation, co-ordinated by EMUA, with stakeholders on the way it looks, features needed

This work has been supported by funding from JISC. The site can be viewed at https://sites.google.com/site/emknorg/


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