So the famous Novell network in Malott is now history and many servers are moving down to central IT. The first causality for the NMR lab is our webserver! I have mixed emotions about this change. My website was in pretty sorry shape so I was excited to have a strong incentive to update it. On the other hand, since my site will now live on KU servers, I am forced to conform to the dreaded "Content Management System", which (to my eye at least) looks cluttered and distracting. Frankly, the major function of my website is communication with users, who (in general) are students or employees of the University of Kansas and do not care about brag points such as ....
One of 9 public universities with outstanding study abroad programs.
—U.S. News & World Report
So why do I have to include them on my site?
At any rate, I was pleasantly surprised to learn how much flexibility developers have in CMS. The training classes were useful and I progressed from a newbie to the author of a brand new website in a couple of hours.
The URL is
www.nmrlab.ku.edu
Let me repeat that for the google robots
www.nmrlab.ku.edu
www.nmrlab.ku.edu
www.nmrlab.ku.edu
www.nmrlab.ku.edu
www.nmrlab.ku.edu
(If you googled "KU NMR lab" my site used to be the first on to pop up. Now I am nowhere to be seen, a fact that irritates me to no end!).
At any rate, there is a lot of content on this site, which is focused at users of my lab, but anyone should be able to access. Some of the content is good, some is bad, some is irrelevant. I'm going to try to work on upgrading it and adding EPR content, too. Clearly the major purpose of this blog post is to get my new URL out there.
Later,
Justin
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Friday, September 6, 2013
Hello,
The annual maintenance for cryoprobe on "Siena" (500 in Malott B042) is now complete and the instrument is ready to acquire data on any and all samples! For anyone who submitted samples since last Friday, we will work through your samples in the order received. Fortunately, there is not too much of a backlog.
Thank you for your patience,
Justin
The annual maintenance for cryoprobe on "Siena" (500 in Malott B042) is now complete and the instrument is ready to acquire data on any and all samples! For anyone who submitted samples since last Friday, we will work through your samples in the order received. Fortunately, there is not too much of a backlog.
Thank you for your patience,
Justin
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