After months of work by FSFE's Web
Team -- and in the last
weeks especially by Sam Tuke and
Nicolas Jean -- a new website design
has been launched, bringing with it a fresh look, improved
infrastructure, and new features.
The process began more than a year ago, and several meetings, including
a Web Sprint in Berlin last October, were necessary to produce the
current version.
New design
The new design aims to be attractive as well as easier to navigate and
read. It is solidly based on FSFE's existing graphical profile - colour
schemes, fonts, and layout have been carefully chosen to extend and
build upon FSFE's logo, existing website design, and corporate branding.
Every thematic element is based on styles which already exist within
FSFE's media.
New features
- iCal feed of FSFE events and
activities
- Option to subscribe to FSFE newsletters in multiple languages
- Tagging of news and events, allowing dynamic generation of
information feeds for specific topics (useful for country pages, and
topic home-pages such as 'EU News'); documentation
added
- Improved country teams contact
page, including more
information and links to team member profiles
- Improved people page,
including avatars of team members
- New meta-data storage and display system for published
articles which
consistently presents important article information
Coming Soon
Additional features soon to be added:
- Home-pages for national FSFE teams, such as the German and British
teams, will be launched in the coming days, and shall include
country specific news and events feeds with iCal support, team
member information, and identi.ca plugin support.
- Automated monthly donation options
- Fully integrated fellowship and planet websites, including design,
structure, and sub-menu integration
- Improved support for mobile devices and low resolution screens
- Improved Our Work / Projects page
Make your mark - join the Web Team
FSFE's Web Team needs
help! We need new ideas and suggestions as well as developers,
designers,
and
translators
to improve fsfe.org even further.
- Sign up to the Web Team's
mailing-list to
read discussion about current and future changes, and submit your
own queries and comments
- Submit bugs with the website to the Web issue
tracker (you can create a new
account, and remember that your usename will end with -guest)
- Ask questions in real time in the Web Team's IRC channel:
#fsfe-web on freenode