Website:Development Milestones

Phase III: Launch

December 31st, 2011

• Retire old site

September 1st, 2011

• Launch new site

June 26th, 2011

• Beta launch of new site at International Worm Meeting

Phase II: Iterative Development, Refinement, Testing

Objective 3: code profiling in place

Due: April 15th, 2011

Objective 4: UX testing, limited preview

April 30th - June 1st, 2011

Objective 5: Production architecture

Due: June 1st, 2011

Phase I

February 1st, 2011

• Preview new site to SAB

December 22nd, 2010

• Begin private review of new site
• Launch surveys on UI

July 30th - August 31st

• Finish API development of critical classes
• Finish migration of prominent CGI-based pages to new architecture and release into production (classic view only)
• Solidify look-and-feel of new site: site map, browsing paths, design patterns, navigation
• UI features to address/develop
  • Enhanced, high-performance search
  • External URL handling
  • Error trapping and reporting
  • Authorization/Authentication
  • Customizability
  • Configurable two-panel selector
  • Incorporation of old site elements like BLAST/BLAT
  • Top-level species pages (/celegans, eg) and UI clues for distinguishing them

July 14 - July 30th

• Coronate Czars
• Coding standards and best practices for CSS, Javascript, API in place
• Release new pages to production powered by the new architecture (classic view only)
  • Variation, Protein, Sequence -- and maybe -- Gene
  • Todd to develop <strikethrough>deployment strategy</strikethrough>, hosting environment, and proxy configuration
  • Abby and Xiaoqi to work up templates and markup specific to the classic view
  • Norie to make requisite API changes as needed