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Chaps,

I listened to Martin's advice and used all my spare time around the Unicode conference last week to do the following:

Obtained a copy of "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug, read most of it and applied principles to redesign of i18n home and second level pages
 http://www.w3.org/International/

After a lot of experimentation, rewrote most of the second level / navigational pages to blend with the look and feel as the home page and WG pages.

Removed the table layout from the home page (at last!).

After much more experimentation, implemented a version of the i18n topic index to allow for easy update and lookup that hopefully looks similar but works better than proposal that Martin and others commented on before
 http://www.w3.org/International/resource-index

Reinvented and added to the techniques index, along similar lines to the topic index
 http://www.w3.org/International/technique-index

Continued work on migration of FAQs to latest template.  This is not quite complete. It has enabled me to add the translator's name to the top right of translated pages, as we decided in the telecon, and will allow much more control over changing parts of the page (as well as drastically simplifying life for translators and checking of translations).

Made the RSS feed link, top right, point to a page where you can choose a number of different feeds - this in response to a feedback request.
 http://www.w3.org/International/log/description

Improved linking on publications page
 http://www.w3.org/International/publications

Removed links to the page listing tutorials - created blog posts for all tutorials and pointed at that instead - this will hopefully mean that the list of tutorials is actually kept up to date in the future (I plan to do the same for the page listing articles, which is definitely out of date)
 http://www.w3.org/blog/International?cat=34
The same applies to the former list of talks, see
 http://www.w3.org/blog/International?cat=31


I'm sure it's not perfect, and some people will dislike some things, but it took a *lot* of time, and I did my best, so I hope the general opinion is that it is an improvement overall ;-)  Several aspects of the work will *significantly* simplify the process of managing and keeping the data up to date, and I'm already reaping major benefits from that.

RI

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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

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Received on Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:13:46 UTC