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Tour of beta.w3.org
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A short tour of the redesigned W3C Web site.
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- Hello. My name is Ian Jacobs. I am W3C's Head of Communications
- and it is my pleasure to take you on a short tour of the redesigned W3C Web site.
- Today is 19 March 2009 and we will announce the beta tomorrow.
- On this tour we will have a quick look at the following representative pages:
- the W3C home page which you see here
- and then six other pages related to standards.
- I'm working down sort of an organizational tree
- from more general to more specific.
- There are a lot of other pages as well, a few hundred.
- And we hope the organization and the new styles make it much easier to find your way
- than it has been in the past.
- First, our home page - our old home page as you may know looks like this
- and the new home page looks like this.
- There is still news in the front and center of the page
- which you can scroll through, through a little navigation
- back to first item, and you can see the archives of news going back to a number of years.
- But in addition, there will be more dynamic content on the right hand side,
- there will be recent posts from the W3C Questions and Answers blog,
- as well as talks and upcoming events where W3C speakers are presenting, for example.
- On the left hand side, you'll see access to information about W3C in other languages.
- Those pages aren't part of the beta, so they won't look like it
- but it's still useful to have that information easy to find on the home page.
- Then, the top and footer of the page are used consistently across the site.
- There is the standard sort of site footer with contacts, help and FAQ, and so forth.
- And the top page has these four main navigation menus: "Standards", "Participate", "Members", and "About W3C",
- as well as a search box and these three print logos.
- The "print" logos give you a "screen" view, a "print" view and "mobile" view,
- that looks a bit wide on this screen but in a mobile device,
- that will make the home page a lot more simple.
- Information about the Web site by the way is available here on the right hand side,
- so we will return to that at the end of the tour.
- The first page that we will dive into is the Standards home page.
- We've grouped W3C work into seven areas, which are listed in the middle of this page
- starting with "Web Design and Applications", and we'll look to that page in just a moment.
- The right hand side illustrates way we use this column throughout the site
- which is to list associated resources, frequently used resources - we call them "quick links" -
- and so for example, the top one here takes you to the list of all specifications
- and just to compare, the list of all specifications in the current site looks like this
- and the new page is presented a little more nicely.
- There are also some useful views, for example, you can show all of the current review opportunities,
- you can sort documents according to the editors, the title, and so forth.
- So, we have some new views available to make it easy to find what you're looking for,
- if you are for our specifications.
- The left hand side here illustrates how we use the left hand column throughout the site,
- which is for sibling navigation, so these pages are all underneath the "Standards" tree.
- You can go back to "Web Design and Applications", "Web Architecture", "Semantic Web", these are all siblings.
- Back up to the parent, which is also available through these breadcrumbs.
- Let's go on to "Web Design and Applications".
- This is a grouping as well intended to speak to Web designers and Web developers.
- We've broken it down into some familiar technologies areas,
- such as "HTML and CSS", "Scripting and AJAX", "Graphics", "Mobile Web", "Accessibility".
- We'll go down into those pages in just a moment,
- but at the bottom of the page, we've aggregated news from groups all working in these areas,
- these are aggregated blogs, we can see upcoming talks in these areas,
- upcoming events - there are other pages for events, and more calendars in the new site.
- But this is intended to sort of aggregate useful information related to Web design and applications,
- or similarly for Semantic Web, Web of services, and so on.
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- Let's go down to the next level page,
- this is a technology overview page for HTML and CSS,
- and this type of page gives you an overview of one or more technologies
- - closely related technologies, and links to useful resources.
- Again, we haven't fleshed out all of these yet, we'll be looking for your help
- but on the right hand site, you'll see links to tutorials,
- there are some logos available, there are validation tools.
- After this text which explains a little bit what these technologies are,
- some examples, there is information about recent press releases
- we've had on work in this area, which W3C groups are carrying out this work, and so on.
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- The main thing here is that we've filled out to a certain extent this page,
- but there are lots of other introductory pages on the site,
- and we need your help, so we'll be inviting contributions from you,
- and from W3C groups, and anyone who would like to contribute a few paragraphs
- of technologies they appreciate or they have experience with,
- we'll do our best to integrate them into the site.
- Let's go down to the next page,
- this is called a "status" page - this one is the HTML current status page.
- So we have two goals for the "status" pages:
- - the first is to quickly show what specifications to use,
- and which one are up and coming, or which ones you should NOT used.
- There is a table here at the top, and the first block shows
- these are standards, these are closely related standards
- which is why we put them together on this page;
- then coming up, are Candidate Recommendations, documents in Last Call,
- and then as we scroll down, we see that for example,
- HTML 3.2 has been superseded.
- But you may need to know a little bit more about how these specifications relates,
- such as which specifications superseded HTML 3.2, the answer is HTML 4, and then 4.01
- and those relationships that are best described in words
- are, that's the second goal of the page, to provide that information down here.
- Now, we've sort of populated these pages, all of these pages,
- with the abstract of the specifications which is a reasonable starting point
- but it's our expectation to edit them down, so that in a page or two,
- you can quickly understand when you use a specification,
- how it relates to another one that's upcoming, and so on.
- These are the "current status" pages, and as we publish new specifications,
- as they mature, as we publish new ones, these pages will sort of evolve
- in part automatically, in part with new content that we will come from the community.
- Let's go down to one more level, which is a specification itself.
- The last of these technology-related pages is a reformatted W3C Recommendation.
- For this beta, we've reformatted all the W3C Recommendations, and given them new URIs,
- - we haven't touched the existing ones.
- We haven't done this for any Working Draft or Candidate Recommendations, and so on.
- But we have several goals for this reformatting:
- - eliminate noise upfront,
- - provide useful information at a glance, in this status table that appears at the top,
- - provide useful context on the right hand side,
- and move some of the useful but perhabs invasive status information down to the bottom.
- We've sought a compromise here in rewriting the specifications,
- we didn't want to stray too far from the familiar look and feel of the specifications,
- but we also wanted to give the sense that these are integrated into the site.
- This design represents a compromise.
- If you're interested in hiding the context, while you read the spec,
- you can the "print" mode for example.
- We have also made a policy decision:
- up to now, we've made it a point not to touch any documents once they've been published;
- we're still not going to touch any content of the documents,
- but when a specification is superseded or outdated by a new draft for example,
- we will update the previous draft in place.
- So these green checkmarks here, in the status table,
- will be updated as the specification is no longer the latest draft,
- or is rescinded for example.
- You'll always be able to find more information
- about the relationship of this specification to other ones, on the status pages.
- You can get back to the HTML status page from there, for example.
- We've also put this specification into another group of specifications
- about RDFa, so how it relates to those specifications is described on a second status page.
- There is another link here on the right hand side of interest:
- we now have available the full publication history of every document,
- so you can follow that and you'll see when all of the different drafts were published.
- In fact, let me go back there because that's a very simple interface
- for finding out the most recent draft, that's the one at the top.
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- That's the tour! Let's go back to the home page.
- As I said, you can learn more about the site redesign
- linked from the home page, thank you for taking the time to take the tour,
- have a look around, let us know what you think,
- and send us your feedback - how to send feedback is available here.
- We look forward to hearing from you, and have fun!
- Thank you!


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