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STC France
I’ve been a member of STC for about 5 years, and more recently the Web Manager for STC France. Before I came to it, the site went through Mambo and Drupal builds. Everything was a mess back and front. I went Txp.
First did a content audit (first step in developing a long-term content strategy), and aimed for a design that is clean, usable and suggestive of our locale. We also want to do more with social tools and less with extensions to lower overhead and improve community reach.
There’s still a bit going on, not visible, but it’s getting there. I had to get it online by president’s demands to meet the 2009 conference last March. I’m also a volunteer low on time and busy coordinating their conference for next year on Content Strategy (any web pros in the area (EU) should make it a point to come).
Some things I know so you don’t think it’s overlooked: We aren’t catering to IE6 or earlier. I haven’t whipped up the print styles yet. Will be adding a live search box (right of main nav). Will be making article comments prettier at some point.
Also want to point out that David DeSandro Delivered on the new STC France Logo. We frankly don’t think it could have been any better, for a number of reasons. Great example of collaboration making wonderful things happen from different backgrounds. There should be more of this, IMO.
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there appears to be some overlap on the events page. i’m using FF 3.0.10
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Christ on a bike, that’s a pro-looking site my friend. Top work, and of course hats off to Mr DeSandro as well for that logo.
As iblastoff mentioned, I also see the calendar overlapping the sidebar in the Events section in FF. But your calendar implementation has inspired me to see what I can do with smd_calendar to rival the google one in terms of flexibility of layout… it looks ace.
Excellent stuff. No wonder you’ve been quiet on the forum recently :-)
Last edited by Bloke (2009-06-06 12:47:27)
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Thanks, gents. I’m looking into that overlap issue.
Bloke: Thanks, man. I focus on content and usability first, bring what little graphics skills I have to it after, then tweak as needed. David put the cherry on it. :)
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Congrats Destry on the whole re-organization and presentation of STC France’s site. Clicking through the different sections it’s all coherent and makes sense.
Putting together the logo was a real treat for me. I was fortunate enough to get a client that I saw eye-to-eye with, which is a rare find, especially for new designers like myself.
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Very nice site, congratulations!
I spotted a little typo in the first article
Not to pick on Mamob, Joomla!, and other open source systems in the their (big) class, but what plagues systems like these is they try to be everything to everybody.
Cheers!
Pascal
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Thanks again.
The calendar issue was easy. I had widened the side column and forgot to adjust the width value in the Google Cal snippet.
Thanks for the typo fix, Pascal.
Side note: I’m now reworking the STC France community on Ning to match the presentation of the main site (feel free to join our community there if you like, it’s open to the public). It’s a live makeover and I’ve just started but it will eventually get close to our own look and feel. You have to work within the confines of the Ning templates and semantics, and the CSS editing process is really primitive, but still a lot you can accomplish. I’ll be writing an article on it later. I’m also doing another Ning project for a very big, visible community later this summer. Point is, if you’re doing design services for clients, you might look into skinning Ning communities too. There’s a lot of potential there.
Last edited by Destry (2009-06-08 07:35:53)
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