DRAFT NOTES

Discussing improvements to the out-the box presentation layer of uPortal

Note: Apologies for (proper) UK spellings Feel free to edit!

At the moment most of the UI work and testing is done at the institutional level and doesn't make it back into the community. Also there are problems with porting mods and changes across versions of uPortal.

Objectives:

• Default presentation layer using css and standards compliance.
• Minimise difference in terms of output to the browser so that we really can share skins across institutions. For example using consistent way of handling channels, widgets, images, conventions and standards for naming. Most of the customisation takes place at the CSS level presently - if we had some standardisation in terms of usage and ids, we could potentially share more.
• Need to genericise a standardised layout as far as possible thought and leave flexibility with the end using institution to customise to suit their own visual style.
• Try move away from rework upon upgrades and towards some sharing

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