Functional specifications
June 01, 2005
Website workpackages - third draft
Workpackage 1 - Joint MEDEV / HS&P 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
- Investigate combining / aggregating multiple RSS feeds into one
- Investigate options for allowing personalized views
- Implement final demonstrator page
Workpackage 2 - New MEDEV website
- Determine 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 site
Workpackage 3 - Navigation design
- Develop and model demonstrator navigation elements (such as breadcrumbs) for portal page
- Develop and model final MEDEV site navigation
- Implement navigational elements
Workpackage 4 - MEDEV site visual design and branding
- Commission a new design and brand for the website
- Finalise branding for MEDEV website
- Request all necessary logos from Academy
- Produce CSS to implement MEDEV site branding
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 MEDEV homepage
- Forms for event information entry to include appropriate publishing and editorial controls using outcomes of WP 11
- Forms for fund ops information entry to include appropriate publishing and editorial controls using outcomes of WP 11
- 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 work
- 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 - Portal / MEDEV site and resource searching
- Investigate the functional requirements for site searching in all areas
- Investigate use of OpenObjects search engine
- Implement according to findings of the above
Workpackage 8 - 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 and best practice
Workpackage 9 - 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
Workpackage 10 - HEALTH site visual design and branding
- Commission a new design and brand for the website
- Agree designs with HS&P
- Finalise branding for HEALTH website
- Request all necessary logos from Academy
- Produce CSS to implement HEALTH site branding
Workpackage 11 - Generic web form handler project
- Paul D and Tony's team to do SSADM evaluation of requirements
- Set of generic form content checks defined and implemented
- Generic solution possibly using Python Archetypes developed
- Forms developed using new tools and new DB structures for all content currently managed in MySQL
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