Websites/Mozilla.org/Archive/Design Implementation
Note: This page refers to the relaunch of the site completed in August 2009 and is available for reference.
What we have now
Right now, we have a full "build" system. There's no dynamic part of the site. Each HTML file has the following:
- part of a header (<title>, <meta>, <link feed> sometimes
- a full body (including <body> tag)
- end tags for the <html>
The build system than pulls in a real header and footer along with an optional sidebar. There are a few varying templates for this which change the selected tab in the header and select the sidebar (if it's chosen). (Template sample)
The inclusion for templates is done using HTML comments, e.g., . (Sample HTML file)
There are, however, some pages that don't use the templates and, as I said above, some don't have a sidebar. To do this, there are two files that, when present in a directory, change the display of a page. If a NOMENU file exists, every listed HTML page listed will not receive a sidebar. Likewise, if a NOWRAP files exists, the entire styling for a page is not applied.
What we need to get
To move to the new design, we need to do the following:
- write a script to determine which pages need overall styling and sidebar (based on NOMENU and NOWRAP)
- write a php header, footer, and sidebars for inclusion
- figure out and implement a localization plan (mozilla.com or different)
- create a script that cycles through principles in the footer (see Causes page for the design)
- pull latest feed info from feeds.mozilla.com for front page
- pull latest feed info from news.rdf (for now) for front page
- write a 404 handler that forwards to www-archive if a page exists
- land these changes in SVN instead of CVS
Timeline
TBD
Who and what they're doing
The following people are available to help:
- reed (scripting, php work)
- ss (whatever I can help with)
- david
- stephend (testing)
