[Chapter-delegates] Our New Site Has Launched

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

Hi all,

would it be appropriate to join to chorus of acclamations?
Those of you who are in this business know that judging the quality
of a Website is more than just checking the design and following
a few links. So for now: congrats, yes its looking great.

A few question already pop-up now:
 - first of all (and I saw a contribution of my ISOC.DE board fellow
   Peter Koch on this) who had this absolutely crazy idea to change
   URI? I mean having internetsociety.org as an alternate would be OK.
   But changing the URI is ...
   I should abstain from insults and be constructive. So what did you
   do with the Web developer (I hope you had one), who reminded you on
   the implications of such a change, who maybe referred you to an
   article of Tim-Berners Lee from 1998 that gives damned good reasons
   not to do so - in your own interest.

 - A bit of related: ISOC.DE proudly syndicates news from the ISOC
   website. As do many other chapters and maybe others too. To have
   some advance alert on the change of the RSS feed would have been
   nice. But stop: there isn't any? Clicking RSS leads you to a page
   containing
   "Find our more about RSS feeds and how you can use them to keep
   up-to-date on Internet Society activities (LINK)"
   I assume you mean
   "Find out ...".
   Anyhow there is nothing to find (2011-12-15 15:18 UTC) out - no
   link no nothing. So many places in the world still syndicate -as we
   do- the old outdated feed at http://www.isoc.org/headlines/rss.php.
   Can you imagine a better organized transition?

 - Internationalisation of the page is a mess. It is absolutely
   unpredictable what you will see when you click on the
   link for another language. A bit tricky to resolve properly but
   well ISOC - sorry the Internet Society Claims to be an international
   organization. So if you do internationalisation links should produce
   predictable results.
   Minor issue: for somebody who has come a bit to age and is not a
   native English speaker the teasers on the homepage change way too
   fast. To have to stop it by mouse over this is not very accessible.

So congrats again and best wishes for fixing issues faster than they
pop-up.

Good luck, enjoy your holidays and have a successful 2013 for the
wealth of ISOC.

Klaus


Dan Graham wrote on 2011-12-15 16:44:
> Hi all,
> 
> Our new site has launched! Check it out: www.internetsociety.org
> <http://www.internetsociety.org> (depending on where you are in the
> world, you may still see the old site for the time being. If so, keep
> checking).
> 
> Needless to say that this has been a huge project, and as I've said
> before, this only the beginning - not the end:
> 
>   * As with any new website launch, there will be a few items that
>     need to be addressed such as broken links, formatting issues,
>     bugs...etc. Please bear with us as we iron out these issues over
>     the next few days.
>   * We will continue to migrate content, add pictures and videos...etc
>     to the new site over the coming days  (after all, a website is
>     never really "finished"). 
>   * At the moment, there's only a small amount of multilingual pages.
>     More will be added throughout the day and tomorrow as our
>     translators needed to do some final proofreading given some last
>     minute changes.
> 
> 
> Thanks to all of you who provided your valuable time, ideas and
> guidance throughout this process! 
> 
> As mentioned, if you have feedback, ideas or questions about the site,
> please contact us using: webfeedback at isoc.org
> <mailto:webfeedback at isoc.org>
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
> 
> PS: I'll be in touch with you soon about templates.
> 
> Dan Graham
> Internet Society
> 
> Office: +41 22 809 0368
> Mobile: +41 78 757 9943
> 
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> 
> 
> 
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Klaus Birkenbihl
Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
http://www.isoc.de/