[kdewebdev-site] Phase I design and development opportunities

[Bill Chmura]

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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 09:55 pm, David Joham wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Here's my first pass at the jobs that will need to be assigned for the
> initial work on Phase I. Please review and comment if you see any jobs I
> left out or some you don't think need to be here yet. Please keep in mind
> that these are only the jobs for the initial work on Phase I, not all that
> will be needed to complete the work.
>
> 1) www.kdewebdev.org and <tool>.kdewebdev.org page layout prototype. I want
> to have an XHTML prototype with graphics for approval as soon as possible.

- From development experience for my company, I recommend that the XHTML 
prototype should come after a design is established.  A good HTML person can 
take almost any comp and work it into HTML.  If you can get a good 
establishment of #2 (or at least rudimentary) you can have the graphic artist 
(lurking somewhere on the list I believe) develop some graphic comps... these 
are easier to manipulate, faster to make changes to, and can be made into 
XHTML when the design is approved.  It also allows for the nav to be worked 
out some more (or finessed) while the comp is being iterated through.  We 
very rarely do any html until after we have a tier 0, 1 and 2 page designs 
done in graphical comps.

> 2) www.kdewebdev.org and <tool>.kdewebdev.org site map. What tools are
> going to be included in Phase I? What will the navigation options be?
>
> 3) A list of www.kdewebdev.org and <tool>.kdewebdev.org content providers.
> I want to know who is committed to writing content for these sites so we
> can get them on board as soon as possible.

I'll write some content.  

> 4) A "Build or Buy" strategy. I would like to know if any existing tools
> (such as Plone or SquishDot or others) can help us create www.kdewebdev.org
> faster than if we did it from scratch. I don't have any objection to
> building our site from scratch (more fun) but one of our objectives on this
> project is getting the site running as quickly as possible. If an existing
> tool will let us do that, we should seriously consider using it.
> 5) An L10N strategy. This may be partially tied into #4 above but is more
> detailed as well. What L10N resources do we have? What languages do we
> want? Assuming we're going to use PHP for the development of this site (in
> either an existing tool or our own in-house tool) what is the best way to
> proceed knowing the we want to have our site in as many languages as
> possible?

We do?  Which sections of the site are being targeted for multiple languages 
and how many translators are on board for this?

>
> 6) A database strategy. This may also tie in slightly with #4 above.
> However, I want someone to make a recommendation as to how much
> database-sourced content we're going to have for Phase I. At the moment, I
> see that Phase I could go anywhere from flat HTML files to everything being
> stored in the database. We're going to need a database developer if we do
> any database work at all.
>
>
> I'm sure there's more initial Phase I work, but at the moment, I'm drawing
> a blank. For those of you who have been looking at getting going with this
> project, here's your chance! Not only am I looking for other jobs that I
> might be missing, I'm also looking for volunteers. If anything interests
> you, please let us all know so I can officially start handing out
> assignments. Here's where it starts to get fun :)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
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Bill Chmura
Director of Internet Technology
Explosivo ITG
Wolcott, CT

p: 888.560.YWEB (9932)
e: bill at Explosivo.com
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