NewSkinProject
What (summary)
Deployment of a new skin that evokes AboutUs rather than wikipedia.
Why this is important
The look and feel of our site is one of our most important messaging tools. A new skin that communicates an earthy wholesomeness while feeling professionally polished will visually communicate our values and increase how engaging our site is to visitors and members alike.
DoneDone
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Alpha phase-
Skin is available at newskin.till from within the Portland office (related to WorkingDevelopmentBox and DevelopmentStagingProcess). -
All Portland staff have accounts created for them on till so that they can stress test the NewSkin.
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Beta phase ... Will start Tuesday at noon-
All AboutUs users are able to select the new skin in their preferences and use it -
All functionality is available in Firefox and IE (6 and 7), Safari -
Vinh and Ray agree all concerns have been addressed and any feasible changes have been made.
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- Roll-out phase
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The new skin is the default -
All functionality is available in Firefox and IE (6 and 7), Safari -
Vinh and Ray agree all concerns have been addressed and any feasible changes have been made. -
No major errors/concerns about new skin for a period of two days
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Steps to get to DoneDone
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Create areas for suggestions, errors, concerns, tests, etc, at NewSkin -
Add a personal invitation to preview the Beta Skin to each ActiveMember's talk page -
Gather suggestions, concerns, usability ideas, or errors from users over a period of days -
Address concerns/suggestions, and make any good, feasible changes to skin to get to Beta2 -
Write an article that announces the Beta Skin for later posting -
Design a test script for use across various browsers/platforms(see TestScript Section)-
Need a list of major modern browsers hitting AboutUsIE6 & IE7, Firefox, Safari | Camino, Opera, IE5, Lynx (screen readers), Konqueror
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Post the article that announces the Beta Skin in a widely accessible place- get users to run through the "script" on various browsers/platforms
Test Script
Looks good means no obvious errors. 1 pixel alignment bugs are not obvious errors.
- Main page looks good
- edit looks good
- recentchanges looks good
- google maps show up on User:John Stanton
- table on Portal:2008_Presidential_Election isn't messed up (what is messed up?)
- ads show up on NewSkinProject
- adult content flagging works
- useful links dropdown doesn't super expand collapse cycle FREAK OUT!
- search looks right