These errors should be vanishing from national park websites as the Park Service staff works on implementing changes in advance of the agency's centennial.
While the 100th birthday of the National Park Service won't officially arrive until August 25, 2016, it's not too early to work on improving the agency's many park websites. And the agency's webmeisters are doing just that.
"As we prepare for the centennial, there will be several improvements made to NPS.gov," Park Service spokesman Jeff Olson said. "These improvements include a reorganization of content, responsive design for mobile devices, and a new look and feel for the site."
And while there are many times these days when you might run into a "Requested Page Not Found (404)," staff are trying to root all those out and present a more enjoyable web experience for visitors.
"Parks are taking the time leading up to the centennial to make content improvements. Web authors are being offered training on how to perform content inventories, evaluate online content, and create content strategies for their public websites," Mr. Olson said.
"There are minimum content requirements for park websites'and most provide far more than that minimum. The content strategies parks create in the coming months will help guide decisions about their online offerings and how they can best use limited resources to make improvements to those offerings by 2016."
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Towards fiscal responsibility.
I agree Harry, the worse thing we can do is cut our public/private investments in education science and research. Ethically and fiscally irresponsible in my own humble opinion.
Ron,Do you think it is a coincidence that the cost of college has sky rocketed at the very time that eductional loans, grants, scholarships et al accelerated? And while the costs have skyrocketed, has the quality of education risen?
Lets get back to people paying there own way through college. I bet the cost would come way dowm and the quaility of the learning with improve dramatically. Probably would have the same impact on the parks as well if people that used them were forced to pay and the parks were forced to survive on those payments.
I have to agree with EC on this one. At the University of Washington, there are 18,000 administrators and 2000 faculty, and roughly two-thirds of the faculty teach part time. That's 400 administrators for every 1,000 students. What do the administrators do? Why, tell the faculty how and what to teach, of course. And run the "business" of what it means to be a university these days. Just up at the University of Washington: The Vice Provost of Innovation. What is he supposed to innovate? Why, more patents for the university, so the administrators can fund a second office tower.
Harry, Scott Walker is right. It's totally out of hand. Why should young people spend $100,000 for an education, when all they is get is teaching assistants and political correctness up the ying yang? We took Western Civilization--and English. They take race, class, gender, and diversity. We can speak without saying "you know" every sentence. They can't speak worth a damn.
But I digress. I mean, you know, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the national parks are awesome, Dude, and Kurt, like, wants us, like, to stick with those.
EC & Alfred are the stars on here! Got that?
Ron,I respect your civility and willingness to admit others have "valid points". However, I disappointed (but not surprised) that you can't provide validation for your socialist views. I don't deny your right to have those views but you should be able to back them up. The fact you don't implies your views stem more from wishes than rational thought.
Oh, the horrible scarey boogie-man hiding under the bed to reach out and grab your childen --- socialism! Kryptonite, to our right wing fringe friends. [Except when they qualify for their Social Security].
Brazil. Norway. Sweden. Slovenia. Germany. Finland. France. All countries that apparently prize educating the leaders and citizens of the future more than they prize the profit motive.
And you don't live in any of them.