[tei-council] new look TEI web site

[James Cummings]

Julia Flanders wrote:
> 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. 

As an aside to this, can I ask what the status is of the UK site?  I 
never viewed it strictly as a 'mirror' of the .org (US, International,
whatever we should call it) site.  I always just assumed that, although 
it functioned as a mirror of the main site, it was always unofficially 
so.  More of a preview / development site than strictly a mirror.  Is it 
listed as such on the website?  How are users meant to know they have it 
as an option? I'm just curious, since I'm sure all this pre-dates my 
involvement with the TEI.

I don't disagree in any way that the content of the website, and its 
structural organisation would not benefit from careful reorganisation.

-James

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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