Re: RFP Questions

Hi Coralie.

Thanks so much for your answers to our questions. I do also appreciate the thoroughness of the FAQ, it’s very helpful. We will be making our decision today if we will be submitting a proposal or not.

Have a nice weekend!

Warren

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> On Nov 29, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org> wrote:
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> Hello Warren,
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> I’m happy to learn about your interest!
> Please see inline.
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> Also, we pushed a FAQ earlier today:
>  https://www.w3.org/2019/11/website-redesign-rfp.html#faq
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>> On 28 Nov 2019, at 18:04 , Warren Wilansky <warren@plankdesign.com> wrote:
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>> Bonjour Coralie!
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>> I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce Plank  my Montreal-based digital agency. We are seriously considering submitting a proposal for the W3C website redesign, and in reviewing your RFP, we have the following questions.
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>>  • How many stakeholders will be involved in the oversight team?
>>  • How much community involvement will there be in the design and development process? We are very open to a transparent project, but want to take that into account when estimating the workload.
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> Please, see answers <https://www.w3.org/2019/11/website-redesign-rfp.html#feedback>, <https://www.w3.org/2019/11/website-redesign-rfp.html#feedback2> and <https://www.w3.org/2019/11/website-redesign-rfp.html#decision> of our FAQ.
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>>  • While you have identified your key personas/users of the site, what level of importance do you put on each?
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> We have not done that analysis.
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>>  • Of all the comments in https://www.w3.org/2013/05/site_survey_20130530.pdf, which ones resonate the most with your organization?
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> “Visual design”, “Less stuff” and “better organisation of the site architecture itself. Without breaking old links.“
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>>  • For Phase One of the project, we suggest going through a preliminary UI/UX review of additional sections of the non-“corporate” site to ensure that there is a consistency of design intention when you get to future phases. Would you be comfortable with that approach?
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> Yes.
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>>  • How many pages are there in total currently at 3w.org? What percentage do you see affected by this project?
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> w3.org has literally millions of pages. The percentage is hard to estimate. A very large number of pages fall under a few categories. If these categories are affected, then a large percentage of the site is affected. By the same token if we focus on categories that “house” fewer pages, then the percentage is smaller.
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>>  • How many agencies do you suspect will submit a proposal for your project? I’m curious since you are a high profile and influential organization that serves the web development community. :)
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> Counting from how many sources we have received questions and adding a few, I expect we may receive between 15 and 30 proposals.
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>> P.S. I did a small benchmarking exercise at Google’s web.dev and ran the attached report. Am I to guess the goal for the site is to be a perfect 100%?
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> Well, that would be nice!
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> With kind regards,
> Coralie
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>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Warren
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>> <W3C - Lighthouse Report.pdf>
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>> 
>> Warren Wilansky
>> President and Founder
>> warren@plankdesign.com
>> 514.875.0003 x221
>> 
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