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February 17, 2005
Second draft of website workpackages
Workpackage 1 - Joint MDVM / HSP portal demonstrator page at http://www.health.ac.uk
- Determine portal page functional requirements
- Produce a non-styled mock-up to test content combinations
- Produce a wireframe for the page
- Finalise and implement outcomes of navigation WP
- Finalise content and wireframe and produce CSS
- Implement final demonstrator page
Workpackage 2 - New MDVM website - initially of limited scope
- Determine initial page functional requirements
- Produce a non-styled mock-up to test content combinations
- Produce a wireframe for the page
- Finalise and implement outcomes of navigation WP
- Produce a node / site map on paper
- Finalise content and wireframe and produce CSS
- Implement final page
Workpackage 3 - Navigation design
- Develop and model demonstrator navigation elements for portal page
- Develop and model final MDVM site navigation to ensure interim model fits
- Develop and model interim navigational elements for MDVM interim site (referencing old site navigation)
- Implement navigational elements
Workpackage 4 - Visual design and branding
- Finalise branding for MDVM website (probably based on our PPT style)
- Request all necessary logos from Academy
- Produce CSS to implement MDVM site branding
- Do the same for the joint Portal page
Workpackage 5 - RSS and iCalendar feeds
- Finalise events database table structure
- Develop new events RSS feeds using the Event module
- Develop new fund ops RSS feeds using new schema
- Refine iCalendar view of events
- Build movabletype Latest additions consumer pod into MDVM homepage
- Forms for event information entry to include appropriate publishing and editorial controls
- Forms for fund ops information entry to include appropriate publishing and editorial controls
- Include feeds from mini-projects RSS and a number of blogs (to be determined)
- Hack Feed2JS or MagpieRSS tools to handle the new RSS formats
Workpackage 6 - MovableType gubbins
- Investigate the strengths and threats of using MT for classification over and above a home grown DB approach
- Implement a movabletype blog for Latest additions blogging and feed (to double for classification of resources too)
Workpackage 7 - Using Plone for static managing static content from multiple authors
- Investigate the strengths and threats of using Plone as part of our CMS or exclusively as against a home grown approach
- Investigate if resources external to Plone can be rolled into the publishing workflow and controls without having to extend the content model with Archetypes etc.
- Implement Plone for use as a publishing environment for static authoring by naieve users
- Skin Plone with new branding
Workpackage 8 - Portal / MDVM site and resource searching
- Investigate the functional requirements for site searching in all areas
- Implement according to findings of the above
Workpackage 9 - DTML to ZPT and / or Plone porting
- Generic form builder and manager DTML
- Workshop proposals
- Mini-project proposals
- Publication requests
- Workshop publishing
- Workshop bookings
- Contact details administration
- Contact details user checking
- Newsletter publication process
- Uploading of resources for MPs and WSs
- FAQ, Glossary, project reports and websites, special reports
Workpackage 10 - XSLT based RSS to HTML conversion
- Develop Zope / Python based tools for running XSLT transformations on the various flavours of RSS feeds (including new modules) we will be using
- Develop XSL stylesheets for transformations
Tags: Web user experience
Posted by pj at February 17, 2005 01:18 PM