July 2018 Meeting Notes

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 2:00pm

WDN Shared Gov Board update

  • QA review process redevelopment
  • Next meeting is 7/11/18 at 10a.m. at University Communication (12th and Q)
  • Will be revisiting and revising the Style Book for 5.0

5.0 Framework Timeline and Updates

  • Alpha 2.0 / Apps Alpha 1 (Ryan)
    • Goal 1: Reduce file size (so far, have reduced CSS alone by 40-50%)
    • Goal 2: Exceed user expectations for accessibility (included "skip to," move some a11y fixes out of JS, improved focus styles (buttons), modal dialog for UNLalert)
    • Goal 3: Exceed user expectation for design (moving from photoshop to code with bands and areas that are high-use)
    • Goal 4: Take advantage of Drupal 8 to display / share content (shared content types, styled content bands, widgets like events built into drupal)
    • Goal 5: Add new framework features (dashboard)
  • UNLcms theme preview (Eric)- How to preview in UNLcms
  • DCF Documentation - http://www.digitalcampus.us/
  • WDN Documentation - https://wdn.unl.edu/50-classes
  • For reading / studying up on CSS Grid - CSS Grid Garden

User Preference Survey

Eating our Own Dog Food: WDN Site in 5.0

  • Some minor changes need to be made before flipping the site over, but any page on the WDN site can be viewed in the new theme by adding a "?5" to the end of the URL. Example: https://wdn.unl.edu/?5

Meeting Recording