Nuffield Bursary student 1 - Web sustainability

Ahsan Anderson has being working with Scott Turner from the University of Northampton on issues around Web Sustainability using a website designed to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) outreach activities as the vehicle. The work is being funded through a Nuffield Science Bursary. 

The project has been in three parts:

• Investigating possible tools and approaches for web sustainability;
• Developing a sustainable website to specification;
• Looking an smartphones apps as a possible route for improving the use (and therefore sustainability) of the site. 

In this posting the outcomes from the first two parts are shown (the third will be a separate posting).


Investigating possible tools.

Details of this are available through these blog posts

• Best free tools for website sustainability - http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-best-free-tools-for-website.html
• How to get it out there for pennies - http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hosting-how-to-get-it-out-there-for.html

STEM site

The site was developed and hosted using Weebly because of its easy of use, free tools and free hosting.

The site is sustainable because
- It has been design to be relatively simple to maintain
- Uses free tools
- Uses free web-hosting
- Relatively easy to transfer management
- Relatively easy to wrap most of the site and largely move it to another host.



Site: http://stemnorthamptonshire.weebly.com/home.html At the moment the outline of the site is is shown, with content to follow.

A user guide to maintaining the site has also been produced.