This page is intended to document the current effort to redesign the main shorewall.net website.

Requirements

• What characteristics of the current site suggest that it needs a redesign?
• What are users reporting about the current site that indicates that it should be redesigned?
• What are the assumptions about the users of the site?
• What characteristics of the new site will make these users more satisfied with the new site?
• How will the redesigned website reduce the effort required to support Shorewall?

Design

• Logo design
• Initial Site Design Concept [G.Weldon - 2008-01-11]
  • Concept #1  http://graham.weldon.ath.cx/shorewall01.png
• Followup design concept, polished
  • Concept #2  http://graham.weldon.ath.cx/shorewall02.png
    • Slight alignment changes
    • Active navigation item changes
    • Added a sample logo
  • Concept #3  http://graham.weldon.ath.cx/shorewall03.png
    • Changes to logo
    • Reduction of introduction text pane width
    • Inclusion of large logo version
    • Minor alignment changes
• Samples of varying page layouts including all elements
  • Navigational items
  • State changes for visual elements
  • Pagination where required
  • Images / Icons
    • External links
    • Internal Links
    • E-Mail links
    • Bullet points
    • Heading indicators

Development

• Conversion of design to XHTML
  • Verify XHTML validation
  • Verify CSS Validation
• Cross browser compliance
  • Internet Explorer
  • Safari
  • Firefox / Seamonkey
  • Opera
  • Lynx / Text based
• Integration of docbook XML data into site
  • Stylesheets
  • Pagination at all (?)
• Trac Design
  • Conversion of XHTML template to Trac compatible template

Mirroring

• Test run for mirror sites

Documentation

• el_cubano to complete required tasks