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Code 400 Webmasters Quarterly Review February
12, 2004
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Agenda - Why are we here today?

• Introductions (All)
• Discuss Agency initiatives, GSFC Web Council
  Webmasters Group Activities and Planning. (Emma)
• Discuss Code 400s response to meet requirements,
  best practices, guidance and how to pass
  compliance review. (Cecilia)
• Demo how we (NASA/GSFC/400) are walking the talk.
  What it looks like in the real world. (Emma)
• Where do we go from here? (All)

Cecilia Czarnecki
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Introduction

• About the Webmasters Group the Web Council
• Accomplishments
• What are the pressures we face? (The big picture)
• Plans for the coming year
• What you can do

Emma Antunes
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About the Webmasters Group the Web Council

• Webmasters Group
• Started in 1996, chartered by CIO
• User group, focused on community education
• Monthly presentations, brown bags
• Web site
• http//webmaster.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• 2 mailing lists
• www-announce_at_majordomo.gsfc.nasa.gov
• www_at_majordomo.gsfc.nasa.gov
• Web Council
• Started in 2002, chartered by CIO
• Management group, focused on policy and
  governance
• Members are representatives from each directorate

Emma Antunes
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Accomplishments

• Webmasters Group Accomplishments
• Presentations on
• NASA Look Feel
• Section 508
• Knowledge Management
• Writing for the Web
• XML
• Web Council Accomplishments
• Registration of over 1300 public web sites
• Answered 2 of the big 3 questions (third answer
  coming soon!)
• What sites do we have?
• Who are our webmasters?
• Are our sites in compliance with Federal law?
• Clean up of the port 80 list
• Internal Search Engine Business Case

Emma Antunes
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What are the pressures we face?

• A whole lot of rules and regulations!

Emma Antunes
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WWW Regulations and Policies

• Federal Legislation
• Privacy Act of 1974, as amended
• Computer Security Act of 1987
• Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
• Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996
• Electronic Freedom of Information Act (EFOIA)
  Amendments of 1996
• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments
  of 1998
• Children's On-line Privacy Protection Act of 1998
  (COPPA)
• Government Paperwork Elimination Act of 1998
• Section 646, Protection Of Citizens Privacy On
  Federal Web Sites, Treasury And General
  Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (P.L.
  106-554, December 21, 2000)
• E-Government Act of 2002
• Homeland Security Act of 2002
• Executive Order 12862, Setting Customer Service
  Standards
• Executive Order 13011, Federal Information
  Technology
• Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to
  Services for Persons With Limited English
  Proficiency
• OMB/Dept. of State/Dept. of Commerce
• Privacy Policies and Data Collection on Federal
  Web Sites (OMB Cookie memo)
• Privacy Policies on Federal Web Sites, OMB, June
  2 1999
• OMB Circular No. A-130, Management of Federal
  Information Resources.

• NASA HQ
• NPD 1382.17, Privacy Act - Internal NASA
  Direction in Furtherance of NASA Regulations
• NPD 1440.6, NASA Records Management.
• NPG 1441.1, NASA Records Retention Schedules.
• NPD 2190.1, Procedures and Guidelines for the
  NASA Export Control Program
• NPG 2190.1, Procedures and Guidelines for the
  NASA Export Control Program
• NPD2800.1, Management of Information Technology
• NPG2800.1, Management of Information Technology
• NPD2810.1, Security of Information Technology
• NPG2810.1, Security of Information Technology
• NPG 2200.2, Guidelines for Documentation,
  Approval, and Dissemination of NASA Scientific
  and Technical Information
• NPD 2220.5, Management of NASA Scientific and
  Technical Information
• Designated Internet Home Page Naming And
  Ownership (CIO Executive Notice 08-95)
• NASA Public Affairs Internet Communications
  Policy, Oct 95
• Policy for Retention of Internet Services Server
  Log Files (CIO Executive Notice 23-97, based on
  Schedule 2, Item 13 of the NASA Records Retention
  Schedule,)
• Guidance on Implementation of Information
  Technology (IT) Security Warning Banners (CIO
  memo dated October 10, 1997)
• Guidance on Implementation of NASA Website
  Privacy Statement (CIO memo dated June 1, 1998)
• Logo Policy (Associate Administrator for Public
  Affairs memo dated June 2000)
• NASA Web Site Registration and Internet Policy
  (Dated 11/15/01)

Emma Antunes
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What are the pressures we face? (The big picture)

• Public
• Increased expectations for the reliability,
  usability, and quality of NASA sites
• Federal
• Focus on privacy, security, accessibility, and
  e-government
• Service to citizens
• Do more for less (OMB)
• Agency
• OneNASA
• Common look and feel
• Focus on content, not design
• Greater attention to web management
• Push to centralize (both content
  infrastructure)
• NASA Web Managers charter to be approved soon

Emma Antunes
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Plans for the coming year

• Develop Strategic Plan for Goddards web
  environment
• Goal
• Create a vision for how we want Goddards web
  environment to be in the future
• Common Themes
• Greater attention to project management
  professional approach to web development
• Web shop to go to for services, webmasters,
  development support
• Review/Approval of Web Sites
• Resources for Webmasters (Tools, training,
  templates, testing)
• Support for centralization where its appropriate
• Review all public sites for compliance with NASA
  Policy and Federal Law
• Trust, but verify.
• Provide more support for Section 508 Testing
  Compliance
• LIFT Machine pilot 6K Full version 50K
• Proceed with Internal Search Engine Evaluation
• Google for Goddard 220K/2 years
• Encourage use of common NASA look feel

Emma Antunes
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What you can do

• Be active in the webmasters community
• Join the mailing lists and come to our
  presentations. The next presentation is Feb 25,
  on Using XML for Web Content.
• Become familiar with web policy
• Manage your web site as you would any other
  project. What is its projected lifecycle? Cost?
  Benefit? Is there a better way to do it? How
  successful is your message?
• Take a professional attitude towards your web
  site its the public face of NASA
• Use the NASA Look Feel
• Separate content from presentation

Emma Antunes
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Use the NASA Look Feel

• Why?
• Achieve and maintain a high standard for content
  presentation
• Provide a consistent user experience with
  improved navigation
• Strengthen NASA brand and make easy to identify
  an official NASA site
• Consistent but Flexible
• Different levels of Affinity
• Some areas are more fixed
• Site navigation concept
• Fonts
• Header, footer, background color
• Some areas are more flexible
• Information architecture
• Section navigation
• Inside layout
• Portal Style Guideline Specifications other
  Portal info
• http//www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/portal/

Emma Antunes
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NASA GSFC sites using the new look feel

• NASA.gov http//www.nasa.gov/home/index.html
• JPL http//www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
• NASA (Flash example) http//www.nasa.gov/missions/
  timeline/index.html
• Mars http//marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/
• Mars Rovers http//marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/in
  dex.html
• KSC Mars site http//www.ksc.nasa.gov/elvnew/merb
  /index.htm
• Academy of Program Project Leadership (APPL)
  http//appl.nasa.gov/home/
• GSFC Webmaster http//webmasters.gsfc.nasa.gov
• Code 400 current http//fpd.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.
  html
• Code 400 New http//fpd-dev.gsfc.nasa.gov/code400
  update/index.cfm
• GOES current http//goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• GSFC Goes New http//goes2.gsfc.nasa.gov/  
• Recruiting (Under Development)
  http//webmaster.gsfc.nasa.gov/emma/nasalook/OHRr
  ecruitsite.jpg
• CDDIS (Under Development) http//cddisa.gsfc.nasa
  .gov/nlf/cddis_nlf.html
• GSFC (Under development) http//webmaster.gsfc.nas
  a.gov/emma/gsfc/index.html
• Wallops http//ww3.wff.nasa.gov/wfcwf/responses.ph
  p
• GISS Publications http//pubs.giss.nasa.gov/

Emma Antunes
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Separate Content from Presentation

• Why?
• Supports changing technology
• Supports mandates from management w/ regard to
  presentation
• How?
• XML XSLT
• Server Side Includes
• Templates
• CSS

Emma Antunes
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Whats in it for us?

• Provides visual affinity across 400, within
  Goddard and across NASA - Strengthens NASA
  Website brand
• Provides a professional, polished interface
• Puts us ahead of the curve Code 400 viewed as
  innovators and team players
• As early adopters, we will help steer the GSFC
  policies and guidelines
• Will help us to meet requirements of website
  reviews (internal and external)
• Web pages will be easier to develop and maintain
• Web pages will be easier to use and access to
  information faster due to more consistent content
  and navigation across organizations
• Public will have more positive view of
  NASA/GSFC/Projects Directorate

Cecilia Czarnecki
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What can you do now?

• Review existing sites for short-term usability
  and compliance fixes. Look for
• Inconsistent information and navigation
• Internal information on external pages and vice
  versa
• Organization-centric sites this is confusing
  for non-NASA/Goddard users
• Out of date, conflicting information including
  launch dates, contact information, news items,
  etc.
• Responsible NASA officials and other required
  information not consistently or correctly
  presented
• Outdated content and designs, inappropriate
  content, broken links, 508 non-compliance
• Dont know when you have been directed to a
  non-NASA site no exit message presented
• Difficult to know if site is an official site
• Professionalism consider using OneNASA banners
  for quick turn around solution
• Security Issues Work with your Systems
  Administrators and CSOs to reduce web
  vulnerabilities - http//www.owasp.org/documentati
  on/topten - Center Security Recommended Site

Cecilia Czarnecki
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What else can you do ?

• Participate in OneNASA Look and Feel Workshop
  sign up sheets are on the table outside the door
• Attend GSFC Web masters meetings hosted by Emma
• Go to webmaster_at_gsfc.nasa.gov to review policies
  and regulations
• Begin to develop a project plan for incorporating
  OneNASA Look and Feel, regulations,
  policies/guidelines, and best practices into your
  websites focusing on recommendations from the
  GSFC and Code 400 Web Strategic Plans
• Volunteer (or risk being recruited) to serve on
  Code 400 Web Council
• Volunteer to assist in development of Code 400
  Web Strategic Plan
• Meet with your IT and Program/Project Management
  to generate support and promote these
  initiatives, especially to support implementation
  of GSFC and code 400 Web Strategic Plan.

Cecilia Czarnecki
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Web Initiativesand Code 400 Management

• Code 400 Senior Management Supports These Efforts
• Met with Peg Luce and Jim Greaves on 2/2/2004 -
  enthusiastic support for implementing initiatives
• Will brief Dolly and Krista 2/19/2004 to solidify
  Senior Management Support for Strategic Planning
  effort and to promote these initiatives through
  Code 400 Program and Project Managers
• Discussion, Questions Issues?

Cecilia Czarnecki