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February 16, 2005
First stab at website workpackages
Workpackage 1 - Joint MDVM HSP portal page at http://www.health.ac.uk
Tasks:
- Determine portal page functional requirements
- Decide on HEALTH portal page branding and style including CSS
- Mock up a dummy page for review by MDVM, HSP and BIOME
Workpackage 2 - New MDVM website with limited scope
- Determine the scope of the new website
- Determine which areas will still be served from the old site
- Develop new MDVM branding
- Mock up a style-less barebones HTML page which includes everything that is required structurally to test what content should go where
- Finalise events database structure
- Develop new events RSS feeds using the Event module
- Develop final iCalendar view of events
- Develop forms for event information entry along with appropriate publishing and editorial control workflow
- Develop forms for fund ops information entry along with appropriate publishing and editorial control workflow
- Develop new fund ops RSS feed using fund ops module
- Set-up a movabletype blog for news feed
- Hack Feed2JS or MagpieRSS tools to handle new RSS formats
- Investigate and list the strengths and threats of using movabletype for classification over and above a home made DB approach
- Set up a movabletype blog for Latest additions blogging and feed (this will double for classification of resources too).
- Produce a wireframe for the homepage
- Produce a paper site map based upon the output of 4 above
Workpackage 3 - Do a cost benefit analysis of what Plone offers us over a home grown CMS approach
- List Plone benefits for suitable comparison
- Investigate if resources external to Plone can be rolled into the publishing workflow and controls without having to extend content model with new archetypes etc.
Workpackage 4 - Set-up Plone for use as a publishing environment for static content
Workpackage 5 - Specify the functional requirements for Portal and MDVM site and resource searching and implement
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Stuff that needs to be done:
- LTSN-01 staff contact details
- NPC listings
- Functional reqs for the joint Portal page
- Investigation of EPOZ vs Silva and Kupu for simple content authoring
- Investigation of best way to catalogue and classify site resources
- Investigating ways of managing non-standard Plone content within Plone vs MySQL
- Plone site skinning
- Porting of current services from old to new site and from DTML to ZPT including:
-- Generic form builder and manager DTML
-- Workshop proposals
-- Mini-project proposals
-- Publication requests
-- Workshop publishing
-- Workshop bookings
-- Contact details administration
-- Contact details user checking
-- Funding opportunities administration
-- Events administration
-- News administration
-- Newsletter publication process
-- Uploading of resources for MPs and WSs
-- search of BIOME database
-- FAQ, Glossary, project reports and websites, special reports
Tags: Web user experience
Posted by pj at February 16, 2005 04:42 PM