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Repository for the UCSB WSG Webguide hosted on Github using Jekyll.
https://webguide.ucsb.edu
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Remove Three Tiers #1

Closed loganfranken closed 9 years ago

loganfranken commented 9 years ago

When the Web Standards Guide Rewrite Subcommittee reviewed the web guide a couple years ago, we kept the "Three Tiers" page (http://webguide.ucsb.edu/tiers/), although we removed all links and references to it beyond a link in the "About" section (http://webguide.ucsb.edu/about/).

As I remember, the motivation behind this was that the best practices outlined in the web guide are applicable to every UCSB website, so every website should strive to follow them. The page was still retained, however, for historical reference.

I would suggest removing the page completely: otherwise we are featuring and implicitly supporting deprecated content on the web guide.

UCEAP-JCOLON commented 9 years ago

Excellent. Thanks David!

loganfranken commented 9 years ago

Hey @tenken! The updates look good to me!

I thought we had discussed also adding a small paragraph to the home page clarifying that we do not enforce anything?

tenken commented 9 years ago

@Logan we did discuss that. But the idea that we foster best practices is covered in the Mission Statement.

We state on the about page:

The WSG does not police campus websites.

So, I was trying to avoid being repetitive throughout the document.

UCEAP-JCOLON commented 9 years ago

Were we going to add something to the effect that the recommendations here in are best practices that we hope campus websites strive to achieve, yada yada. This allowing for the separation of the tiers as it is a recommendation that all sites strive to achieve those practices...

tenken commented 9 years ago

@UCEAP-JCOLON I wasn't explicitly going to bring in that back history to any part of a page and simply let the Tiers concept die off. The guide in numerous places already states we're hoping projects strive to meet the high-standards set forth.

I'm trying not to rewrite everything (myself) as my writing style is pretty different from the current "voice" of the document.

loganfranken commented 9 years ago

With that, I'm happy with the rewrite: my vote is to move forward with the PR.