CandidateRedesignTools
Candidate tools to be redesigned
This is a list of tools that need to be redesigned to match W3C graphic identity and conventions. This is compiled for the purpose of a 4-week internship (20 Aug. - 14 Sep. 2012) at W3C/ERCIM by a designer/integrator student (AFPA).
Validators
- Platform: Perl, Java, static HTML - open source
- Goal:
- design and develop a generic UI framework for validators
- unify the markup-validator and validator.nu under a single interface
- rewrite the donation program script
- provide generic js functionalities, e.g. in the spirit of Keegan Street work
- integrate with other W3C validators
- Contact: Tom
Blogs
- Platform: Wordpress (PHP - opensource)
- Goal: Create a W3C Theme for Wordpress
- Tasks: Update W3C existing theme for Wordpress to make it responsive and generic so it can be modified slightly for a given blog instance
- Contact: Jean-Gui
- Example:
- Systeam blog (W3C template)
- http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/ (example of W3C template fork)
- http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls/ (another example of W3C template fork)
Wikis
- Platform: Mediawiki (PHP - opensource)
- Goal: Create a new theme for the 200+ wikis hosted at W3C based on Mediawiki's Vector theme (as we want to continue to use the Vector extension). See "How to create a skin FooBar based on the default skin Vector".
- Tasks: Design, integration
- Contact: Jean-Gui, Vivien
- Example: W3C Team wiki
Tracker: Issue tracking
- Platform: Tracker (PHP) (code partially open)
- Goal: New style (Design, integration, interaction)
- Contact: Dom, Ted, Vivien
- Example: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/
Mailing lists archives
- Platform: Hypermail + W3C's patch (opensource)
- Home: http://lists.w3.org/
- Goal: Propose a new style with nicer look and feel and increased usability (Design, interaction)
- Contact: Gerald, Jose, (Dom?)
Meeting minutes
- Platform: Scribe.perl (Perl - opensource)
- Contact: W3C Team
- Example: http://www.w3.org/2012/07/04-rd-minutes.html
WBS: Web-Based Straw-poll and balloting system
- Platform: WBS (PHP)
- Goal: @@@
- Contact: Dom
- Example: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/2012CGBGsurvey/
W3C Mobile Web Initiative
- Platform: Static html files (with some simple PHP)
- Home: http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
- Goal: Revamp style of W3C Mobile Web Initiative site
- Tasks: Responsive design, integration, interaction
- Contact: Dom
W3C Team page
- Platform: static HTML
- Home: https://www.w3.org/Team/
- Goal: Design (by reusing new W3C style for Team pages), integration, content clean-up with Coralie if willing
- Contact: Coralie and Jean-Gui (for reusing existing W3C style)
Resources
- Current style:
- Public pages: http://www.w3.org/standards/about.html
- Member pages: https://www.w3.org/Member/promotion
- Team pages: https://www.w3.org/Web/