[Chapter-delegates] Our New Site Has Launched

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

Sorry, I was obviously also a bit fast in releasing this.
Missed to mention the URI for TimBL's quote metioned below:
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
Sorry for sending twice ...


Klaus Birkenbihl wrote on 2011-12-16 17:29:
> 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    do- the old outdated feed at http://www.isoc.org/headlines/rss.php.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 2012 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
>>
>> www.internetsociety.org <http://www.internetsociety.org>
>> www.twitter.com/internetsociety
>> www.youtube.com/internetsocietyvideo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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-- 
Klaus Birkenbihl
Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
http://www.isoc.de/
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