Website Team Summary

Overview and links to detailed information on the work of the Web Team.

The Web Team is developing a plan for a revision to the MMI Web site. We welcome input from the MMI Technical Team! We have started a "fact finding" exercise so that we can generate a well-informed and concrete proposal for web site re-design. This proposal will be presented to the chief PI and to MMI oversight committees before being implemented.

Current focus


We are currently reviewing the site menu architecture and are developing a backend migration plan.

Once the architecture is close to its final state a wireframe and site design will be built.

Upcoming activities

A series of steps will be used to develop a new information architecture for the MMI site. This is an organization of the material on the site including proposed new content. Please see the Web Redesign Near-term Plan for more information. We hope to draw on the Tech Team for participation in the user testing.

Work to date


We have completed a comparative site analysis of Web sites that are in various ways comparable to MMI.

Andy Maffei and Katherine Joyce attended the MMI Strategic Planning Meeting in October. They reported on our Web site project plan (here's a copy) and got a lot of useful input from MMI members.

With help from members of the Tech Team, we published a web-based user survey to help us assess the strengths and weaknesses of the current MMI Web site. The survey, at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=129832714313, remained on-line until mid-January, 2007.

We have analyzed the results of the web site survey and are using the geedback in our new design.

We have also analyzed site statistics, to better understand what visitors and members are looking for and where they try to find the material. This will be valuable input for the new information architecture we will develop.

Team Members

The Web Team is headed by Andy Maffei and Nan Galbraith at WHOI, with technical expertise provided by Katherine Joyce, a web design specialist at WHOI. Other members are John Graybeal, Luis Bermudez, Al Plueddemann, Dawn Wright, Bob Arko, and Karen Stocks. If you would like to participate in the Web Design team, please contact us!

Posted March 19th, 2007 by ngalbraith