[tei-council] new look TEI web site

[Julia Flanders]

I'd like to back away from the specific discussion for a moment. 
Sebastian, I'm concerned that this partial redesign is live on the UK 
mirror *before* having been looked at or reviewed by the TEI board. 
I'm not even sure we discussed the idea of having an interim 
redesign; when you mentioned working with Cocoon to have a new 
dynamically generated site I assumed that you would be working with 
the same look as the current TEI site, and that any material changes 
would  be reviewed privately before going live. As an interim 
redesign, I don't think this new site is ready for prime time. Could 
we please restore the old UK mirror for the time being, while we sort 
out what we're going to do? We've had the existing site for long 
enough that a little longer won't kill us.

I'd also like to propose that we leave the redesign (as to structure 
and appearance) to Virginia (as discussed on the TEI board list). I 
don't think it's a good use of time to have false starts; I'd like to 
see a more systematic process which takes into account all of the 
TEI's needs, and allows for review in advance of publication. This, 
as I understand it, is what Virginia is planning and I think we 
should let them carry it out.

I hope this doesn't sound ungrateful--experimenting with the 
technical infrastructure for the site seems like a good thing, but 
I'd prefer that we be more careful with the public face of the TEI.

Best wishes, Julia


At 6:26 PM +0000 3/1/05, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>I'd like to invite you all to visit http://www.tei-c.org.uk/ and 
>have a crawl around.
>
>This is the same filestore as the existing web site, but the XML source
>is being rendered dynamically using Apache Cocoon. The look has been adjusted
>to include a standard navigation bar, a breadcrumb trail, and a search box.
>
>Although this is not a content reorganisation, it goes some of the way towards
>bringing the TEI web site into the 20th century <pause>rant from Lou</pause>
>
>Daniel and his crew at Virginia are looking at replicating the setup
>there; if that goes well, we'll be able to offer this on tei-c.org if
>it passes tests.
>
>I suggest, unless people think this is a bad direction entirely, that we
>allow a 2-3 week test period and then see if its ready for prime time.
>
>--
>Sebastian Rahtz
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