[x3d-public] FW: New W3C website deployed

Tue Jun 20 08:09:17 PDT 2023

Impressive milestone progress FYI!

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From: Coralie Mercier <coralie at w3.org> 
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Subject: New W3C website deployed

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,

Chairs, W3C Chapters & Evangelists, AB, TAG,

The redesigned website of the World Wide Web Consortium is now live!

*	https://www.w3.org

There is more to do, but this deployment concludes the four months the site
was available in Beta [1], which followed a year of internal preparation,
and two years of work with UK-based digital agency Studio 24, to whom we
awarded the website redesign project [2] in early 2020. For me personally,
this is a milestone of the "action item" I took over 4 years ago to
communicate more effectively what our organization does with a more modern,
inclusive, usable website.

Redesigning a website and content that has been building up since 1994 is a
massive undertaking, so we chose to break it down into phases and focus
first on a subset of the public-facing pages most useful to key audiences:

        . W3C homepage

        . . /Standards . /Participate . /Membership . /Consortium

        . W3C Blog & Blog article

        . Business ecosystem landing pages

        . Work Groups 'profile' pages (new)

        . /TR homepage

        . Account pages

        . Others as determined by Information Architecture

This as well as goals and other related elements are documented in a deck I
created at the start of the project:

*	https://www.w3.org/Press/slides/202002-website-redesign/#rfp

On the surface, the new site implements current web best practices and
technologies, donned a cleaner and elegant visual design, and provides
information (in many cases rewritten and consolidated) in a more
user-friendly fashion.

Under the hood, everything changed. From the complete information
architecture to the CMS and the tools that make all of our sub-sites work
together.

Feedback on the site itself and the content is expected as issues on our
Github repo:

*	https://github.com/w3c/w3c-website

We will gradually work to address existing non-blocking issues (in
association with Studio 24 who now help us with support and maintenance),
and to include the rest of the site as part of this design, starting with
deploying the Chinese and Japanese localized sites for which we have seeded
a lot of the work already.

Finally, I want to acknowledge the considerable help I got along this
captivating project from the entire W3C Systems Team, in particular this
project could not have happened without the contributions from Vivien
Lacourba, Jean-Guilhem Rouel, Gerald Oskoboiny, Laurent Carcone, Denis
Ah-Kang.

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More information on the W3C Website redesign:

The goals of the redesign were to achieve a cleaner and modern look and
greater usability, better accessibility, as well as ultimately simplifying
how the site is managed. We also want to offer integrated Japanese and
Chinese versions.

Studio 24 documented the collaboration and process on the redesign of our
website in a "work in the open" site, notably today's update [3]. You can
read more about today's milestone from Studio 24's blog post [4].

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[1] https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/w3c-launches-beta-of-its-new-website
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[2] https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2020/studio-24-w3c-website-redesign

[3] https://w3c.studio24.net/updates/live-website-launch

[4] https://www.studio24.net/blog/w3c-launch-their-new-website/

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Coralie Mercier  -  Head of W3C Marketing & Communications
<mailto:coralie at w3.org> mailto:coralie at w3.org -
https://www.w3.org/People/CMercier

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