Re: Time for an updated CCG website?

Well I think it’s an improvement ;)

Should we add a “use-cases” section or “real world applications” section - that includes stories and value propositions about education, health, trade, etc ?

Steven Capell
Mob: 0410 437854

> On 5 Jul 2025, at 6:49 pm, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey folks,
> 
> Our website is looking a bit long in the tooth these days... much of
> the information is out of date and that's never a good thing for a
> vibrant community such as ours to communicate to the outside world.
> 
> Completely unrelated, but in parallel, tech CEOs selling AI are very
> excited about this whole "vibe coding" thing and firing the very
> people that helped build their companies for them. While I don't
> expect that sentiment to age well, I'm also excited by the prospect
> that I might be able to fire myself from the more mundane parts of the
> job... like creating content explaining exactly what we do here, but
> then spending hours fighting with CSS. :P
> 
> Putting those two things together, I tried vibe coding a new
> minimalist CCG website. As you can probably imagine, it was an awful
> experience... 15 minutes to generate the website, and then four hours
> to undo many of the small but terrible things the AI did... but maybe
> that's better than the two days it might have taken to pick the
> appropriate set of modern technologies, write the content, fight with
> CSS (kidding, fighting CSS would've taken four days for that alone),
> and get the site published. One of the requirements is maintainability
> (simple enough for someone to edit a file in HTML and then have the
> system build/publish the new website).
> 
> I'm not shooting for "great" here... just "better than what we have".
> Circulating this before it's ready to see if we should keep going...
> the content could be better, some of the links are broken, it's more
> minimal than we probably want in time, but it probably has the basics
> (how to join, when we meet, link to our calendar, and github
> repository, etc.). It's at a temporary link for now:
> 
> https://msporny.github.io/w3c-ccg-website/
> 
> compare that to our current website:
> 
> https://w3c-ccg.github.io/
> 
> ... which one would people prefer? If the new one is good enough for
> now, I can clean it up, move it over to CCG, and publish it. We can
> improve over the coming weeks. In time, we can have links to the list
> of global standards we've created together, as well as the list of
> work items being incubated.
> 
> -- manu
> 
> --
> Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
>

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