Re: Time for an updated CCG website?

Hey Manu,

Thanks for this, I agree the website is definitely an improvement.

Not reviewed it in depth but a couple of minor things:

The drop-down burger menu is wonky on mobile. See attached

Might be good to put the CCG call time in CET and Pacific as well.

Finally, and this could be later. One of the hardest parts of any website
is not creating it, but maintaining it over time. And doing so in a way
that does not place the burden on the person who created it.

One thing we could explore is statically generated content from markdown
files in a GitHub repo. Thinking this might be especially useful for things
like having a page for each work item currently active.

The main content is probably fine as just inline html. Hopefully this
doesn't need to change much.

Thanks again,
Will review more deeply once I'm back home,
Will



On Sat, Jul 5, 2025, 18:48 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 the information is out of date and that's never a good thing for a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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