History: Originally we used to post results on the Institute of Space and Atmospheric Physics page
This was was deleted (without warning) and some of the information added to a sub page of a
department. This new solution for posting research was found to be "un-agile". We had no
access or control- every change had to be negotiated ... and they frowned on using it to post
older data. So basically useless for us.
But there was a flicker of light: with each university e-mail address came a 50 Meg space
which could be used for a homepage. By calling my page a data blog, we managed to
parlay that space into 2Gb.
Now the university is phasing out the homepage scheme, and is willing to host
it as a research page provided it is created by a designated web design program.
(I assume the reason is to keep pages styles similar for all.)
The current page is based on a small part stolen from an old page, and
after that "manual" modifications/updates with html5. I.e. it is
individualistic, apparently too much so for the university corporate admin.
I do research, not web design. Trying to deal with a black box design program
to re-create what I have already is a waste of my time and energy, even if
the web design program would allow it, so the solution is to change the
location to a commercial host.
But since it is not now officially supported by the university I have
to "de-university-ize" the site, i.e. remove branding. I leave you to guess
the university. It's not that hard.
Another potential plus for a separate site - I get the impression, but no evidence and
I could be entirely wrong, that this University blocks search engines from accessing
its "homepages"; after all they might contain something embarassing or even evil!
That means our recent research results do not get to the public unless we have links
in external web pages.
Chris