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Re: [Revampers] Revamp of the www.ietf.org website - next steps

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Tue, 01 August 2017 15:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Revampers] Revamp of the www.ietf.org website - next steps
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> A. Provide a landing page dedicated to current IETF participants
>
> That page will include links to:
>   - items on the left-side at www.ietf.org (or a subset thereof)
>   - information about the next IETF meeting
>   - links to functions at datatracker.ietf.org
>
> Ideally this would also be:
>   - viewable in a single screen on a desktop/laptop display
>   -  reachable via a short, memorable URL
>     without images
>
> A draft is currently posted at https://beta.ietf.org/links/

A good start.  One first comment:
Please, please, please get rid of the pale-blue-on-grey colour scheme
and stick with full-black on full-white.  This is for frequent fliers,
so let's make sure we can all read it clearly on all devices, and no
fall into the insane low-contrast trend that too many web sites are
using.

Barry

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