Update the welcome page

[priisager1]

The following image suggests a new layout of the welcome-page. Image stem from an email from Andreas (email with further details is in the project public folder).

[priisager1]

There are several unclear points. Will need some more discussions. Email conversation attached below

Dear Andreas,

Thank you for the feedback. It is highly useful, and we appreciate the actual screen-layout-image, which form and excellent background for discussions/communications.

We agree your new suggested welcome-page has a better layout. However, there are some issues related to your suggestions that we need to discuss before we can move ahead:

1. “logos need standard colouring, harmonized size and proper location” – We agree. You need to supply us with the logos and be specific on which colours you want.
2. “EEA suggest to move the bunner below the header to increase visibility” - The central point of the blue menu banner is that it sticks to the top of the screen, and, hence remains visible when a user scrolls down the browser window (for example when inspecting search result lists). We suggest to keep the menu-banner on top of screen; keeping it fixed and sticky (as in present prototype).
3. “EEA COM dep suggest to reduce texts in front page” – We agree. You would need to send us an updated text.
4. “EEA COM dep believes the core options need to get more visible even if there are other routes to get to them – the buttons I provided are quickly made to get the idea visually” – Again we agree on the principle and brightly coloured buttons on the front page is a good idea and easy to implement. However, we cannot have a button “Database searches” as there are in fact 7 different database search pages. Could you be more specific on exactly which “core options” should be linked through the brightly coloured buttons.

Actually the current webpage is not based on an EEA template. It is based on Bootstrap, which is a very widely used responsive design template, and therefore much easier to maintain and develop further upon. We chose the colours to match EEA’s template, but they are very easily changed.

Concerning the search-pages: Our first and major concern is to include all the search functionality of the “old” eprtr website (except EPER data). If you have some more detailed feedback on the search-pages that would be excellent

We completely agree that now is a good time for phone/video conference to discuss current status of the web-prototype as well as the project in general. Jan will get back to you on this regard.

Happy Easter!

Kind regards,

Peter Riisager Developer GIS & IT, Denmark

ATKINS

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From: Andreas.GRANGLER@ec.europa.eu [mailto:Andreas.GRANGLER@ec.europa.eu] Sent: 30. marts 2015 13:06 To: Riisager, Peter; Jørgensen, Jan Cc: Daniel.Montalvo@eea.europa.eu; Christopher.ALLEN@ec.europa.eu Subject: 2015_03_30_E-PRTR website upgrade - state of play

Dear Jan and Peter,

Thank you again for the work on the new E-PRTR website and the progress made so far. As mentioned in my last E-mail, I'm coming back to the current status of the prototype (http://prtrproto.cloudapp.net). At this stage, I think we should take an opportunity and discuss jointly the project jointly in a phone call/conference, i.e. to take stock where were are up to now, how the prototype developed and what the next steps will be. Would the week after Easter suit to you, e.g. Wednesday 8th or Thursday 9th of April at 10:00 am? An appointment at short notice this week would also be possible at our end.

Please find below a list of topics that are important for us and which we could use as a basis for our discussion. We included some preliminary feedback, which I hope you will find helpful in order to have a structured discussion:

1. State of play: As the contract has a limited time span and we arrive now in April, we should take stock and look where we are. We need to get an overview on the resources used up so far and about the next steps, in particular in relation to task 2 (improvement of web functionalities).
2. Development of the prototype in general: It gives already a flavour of the new look and feel. We provided you in the meantime with a range of COM logos in various formats. Due to the decision to use an EEA template, we seem to run the risk that the website will look in the end as a typical EEA website. In fact we aim at showing a slightly more joint corporate identity. That's why we think it would make sense to present at least the Commission's logo in a prominent way next to the one of the EEA and possibly to include some of the elements of a typical page of the Commission (see link below).
3. Entry-page and mandatory elements of the website: The entry page could still benefit from further improvements. We should exchange, how the mandatory elements can be considered in a satisfactory manner. In the attached picture, we further collected our ideas (input.png). Your advice on how we can achieve the best result would be highly appreciated. In the end, the final product needs to be of high quality and in in line with the general standards of the Commission/EEA. Examples of similar webpages (using the EEA template) that could give guidance are naturally the EEA corporate website http://www.eea.europa.eu/ or the SOER website http://www.eea.europa.eu/soer. This additional link provides the standards for Commission web-pages: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/design/templates/commission/index_en.htm .
4. HTML pages to be replaced by static PDFs (e.g. pollutant pages, activities,…): Here, we would need to know how many of these pdf-pages we will have in the end. It seems still not very clear how the final implementation of the static PDFs will look like.
5. Search-pages and subsequent windows: still appear with a suboptimal lay-out – although this is of course a work-in-progress area. Our expectation is that the final product will outperform the level of the original E-PRTR website as regards clarity and comprehensibility.

Thank you very much in advance for telling us if you were available next week. I wish you a nice day.

Best regards Andreas

Andreas Grangler Policy Officer (SNE)

European Commission DG ENV C4 – Industrial emissions Av. Beaulieu 9 – Office BU9 04/68 B-1160 Brussels +32 2 296 67 00 andreas.grangler@ec.europa.eu

[priisager1]

The issue is re-opened following meeting 10/4-2015

[Grangan]

• We agreed to keep the two banners at the top fixed, and will check, how this looks like on a cell phone or tablet. The green one could be slightly more narrow.
• Please give some thought on the welcome text, should be informative/attractive as well for non expert users.
• We also agreed to use the buttons, however, we need to decide, how many of them we need. The one on database search should be probably the most prominent one. The one on diffuse emissions should express in contrast to the database search, that this is information is based on 2010 data and not regularly updated.
• The Commission logo should appear in plain white, I understood, that you can change the colour on your own and that you can use one of the formats I sent to you.

[alvardan]

Hi, I added a revised concept for the front page with further ideas on the content of buttons and improvements on layout. It also includes some of Andreas' points. I will supplement the file I refer to in the image by e-mail to Peter as agreed.