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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A rough outline of the new CAB Forum website is now up on the WordPress area of the website (cabforum.org/wordpress). For those of you unfamiliar with WordPress, it has several components. Of main importance are: “pages”, “posts”, and “uploads” to the Media Library (for PDFs, images, docs, etc.). Although WordPress has a “comments” feature, I have disabled it because it is usually just a magnet for spam. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Navigation for “pages” is structured with a menu that groups content into “Governance”, “Extended Validation”, “Baseline Requirements”, “Current Work” (working groups), and several other topics. “Posts” will be used for publicizing final ballots, final minutes, and other announcements. This allows them to be sorted chronologically. I have almost completed uploading the ballots, and today I will upload the minutes from February 2012 through to the present. (We can decide at a later point whether we want to add the minutes of pre-2012 meetings for historic purposes.) Past versions of the EV Guidelines and Baseline Requirements will be uploaded as files into the Media Library. These can be hyperlinked from “previous versions pages” for both the EV Guidelines and the Baseline Requirements. Current versions will be linked from the main subject page for each of them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As previously noted, a key component of the website that needs more work is the Home page--we need it to have a nice look and feel, etc. We’ll also have to make sure that the page template has a navigation feature that takes people back to the home page from anywhere on the website. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The current WP Theme places the sidebar at the bottom of the page. The sidebar has widgets for “Search” – to search the website, “Recent Posts” – for news announcements, “Past Proceedings” for chronological browsing older posts as explained above, and “By Category” for browsing posts by category. We might be able to move this sidebar to top or to one of the sides, if desired. We could also add more widgets if anyone feels strongly in favor of one in particular.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I would like responsibility for the maintenance of the website to be openly and fairly distributed among all members desiring access, with the understanding that usernames and passwords will be kept secure and that care will be taken to ensure quality control. On tomorrow’s call I would like to discuss whether or how this should be handled --- keeping in mind that any procedural steps for maintenance should be streamlined and efficient while minimizing the potential consternation of other members.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Before the meeting tomorrow if anyone has any suggestions or would like to work on the site please let me know.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ben<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>