W3C Launches Beta Of New Website Redesign

The Worldwide Internet Consortium (W3C) introduced a redesign of their a long time previous web site.

The redesign is presently in Beta however open for a public preview and suggestions, with a launch date of later in 2023.

W3C Website

The World Large Internet Consortium (W3C) is the non-profit group that develops internet requirements.

The present internet design, which dates to late 2008, is enticing but additionally a little bit dated.

Probably as a result of the positioning is manged by completely different teams that publish sub-sites, some pages on the present web site had been by no means up to date and are nonetheless utilizing the pre-2009 design.

New W3C Internet Design

The brand new design appears to be like trendy, though the W3C emblem stays the identical.

For instance, the present W3C homepage is a face-full of textual content.

The brand new beta homepage is simpler on the eyes and permits for white area.

The W3C web site is gigantic, consisting of quite a few sub-sites which might be managed by completely different individuals.

A web site: search of W3.org reveals over 600,000 webpages.

Redesigning the positioning was an enormous endeavor due to the dimensions but additionally due to the objective to be accessible and straightforward to navigate.

A weblog submit concerning the new design shared:

“This covers how we began with design, content material and expertise audits, reviewing who makes use of the W3C web site, what must be communicated, and the way it’s presently managed (it’s complicated!).

The work advanced into design, CMS choice, front-end growth, consumer testing, accessibility work, design methods, technical construct of the front-end web site in Symfony, browser and accessibility testing (with DAC and Zoonou), and extra.”

Understandably, tough edges within the new beta web site stay.

I did a partial crawl of the beta web site and found over 100 pointless redirects brought on by coding hyperlinks to the unsuitable URL.

Over two thousand pages hyperlink to this URL:

https://beta.w3.org/translations/

Which redirects to this URL:

https://beta.w3.org/Translations/

Hopefully the intention is to standardize URLs so all of them use decrease case and that a number of the URLs are but to be transformed to decrease case.

Shopping the brand new web site is straightforward. Website navigation is intuitive.

It’s additionally a pleasure to learn.

The announcement said about their objectives:

“The objectives of the redesign are to attain a cleaner and trendy look and higher usability, higher accessibility, in addition to finally simplifying how the positioning is managed.

We additionally wish to provide built-in Japanese and Chinese language variations, which we’ll roll out after the beta of the English web site has concluded.”

It’s protected to say that they’ve succeeded.

The location remains to be in beta so it’s to be anticipated that the positioning isn’t good.

All are invited to preview the beta model of the positioning and provide suggestions.

Learn the official W3C announcement:

W3C Launches Beta of its New Website

Go to the newly redesigned beta web site

W3C Beta