Website Development

Websites are the primary public-facing sides to any organization, and to the astronomical community, they provide the primary interface for the wide spectrum of research-enabling tasks. Intuitive site navigation, clean graphical design, and effective user experience implementations are all important facets of a successful science website.

IPAC maintains a number of high-visibility websites that connect the astronomical community to key archives, databases, and projects. The IPAC Communications and Education group has created and maintains a wide variety of sites ranging from smaller research projects like ZTF to large missions like LIGO, IPAC, TMT, ngVLA, Spitzer, Herschel, NeoWISE and more.

Expertise includes:

Full-stack Web Development
Website Design and Layouts
Content Management Services
Full AVM Metadata Support
Rapid Deployment

Easy to Use Content Management

Create your own content, such as pages, news, and events.

Powerful text editor

Our text editor lets you format text, embed multimedia, and customize layouts.
You can add your own HTML for even more personalization.

User accounts with custom access levels

User accounts let you control who can access what content.

Manage images and videos

Our CMA generates scaled images so you always have the right size image.

Full AVM Image support

AVM Images allow both general information (title, caption, credit, etc.) and astronomy-specific data (observations, coordinates, etc.) to be embedded directly into the images.

Easy to maintain