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Have been coordinating with Matt since mid-year Started attending WSG 2½ years ago, and one of the first talks was by Dave McDonald on converting the BHP website to web standards, which was very inspiring and memorable.

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  1. from old skool to web standards Priscilla Brice-Weller Website Coordinator, Oxfam Australia Organiser, Melbourne WSG OZeWAI, December 2006
  2. Web standards what-what?
    • equal access to information
    • valid, semantic markup
    • separating content from design
    I’m talking about:
  3. Oxfam / OCAA
    • Background:
    • I started at OCAA in November 2003
    • I was employed to help code the new site design
    • I moved to Melbourne from London
  4. Where to start?
    • Old skool code:
    • no doctype
    • font tags, bold tags
    • not all image tags had alt element
    • inconsistencies
    • not semantic
  5. The site before redesign
  6. The site after redesign
  7. Being inspired
    • Web Essentials 04 accessibility presentation
    • A List Apart & WaSP
    • CSS Zengarden
    • Web Standards Group
  8. Having a say
    • Became Website Coordinator in November 2004
    • Bye-bye tables!
    • Enforcement of standards
    • Appropriate use of Flash
    • Management
    • Book budget
  9. The turning point
    • Tsunami  requirement for style guide
    • Improved CSS
    • PHP includes for all navigation
    • Hybrid CMS for areas that were repetitive to update (PHP/MySQL)
  10. The site, November 2005
  11. Developer tools
    • Dreamweaver (as a glorified text editor)
    • Dreamweaver’s validation tool
    • Firefox webdev toolbar
    • TopStyle CSS editor
    • Bobby check on main pages
  12. Specialisation
    • Re-wrote a lot of content on the site so it is web-friendly
    • Changed the top navigation so it is easier to use
    • Added alternative style sheets
    Team of specialists  we can do more
  13. Education
    • Vision Australia accessibility day
    • Web Standards Group
    • Web Essentials 05, Web Directions 06
    • Blogroll
    • “ Designing with web standards” – Jeffrey Zeldman
  14. The future
    • Moving from Apache to .NET
    • Moving to a full CMS
    • Larger team … becoming even more specialised
    • A new Website Coordinator
  15. The site, November 2006
  16. Cheers!
    • Oxfam Australia is still one of the few large, Australian non-profit websites that use web standards
    • Thanks particularly to Tom Schauble, Melanie Scaife & Mik Efford
    • These slides are on my blog:
    • www.solidariti.com /resources
    • Also see:
    • WSG - www.webstandardsgroup.org
    • Oxfam - www.oxfam.org.au
    Questions & more info …

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