Redesigning QMO…
May 5th, 2008
It’s been over a year since the Mozilla QA team started the QMO (quality.mozilla.org) “alpha” experiment. We started with a simple Drupal install and added a few modules to create a new (temporary) home for Mozilla QA. We wanted to figure out what a community website focused on quality assurance might look like.
It was my first time working with Drupal, so the early setup and configuration was definitely a learning experience. I collected a lot of feedback from the QA team and community to put together something that worked for us. Although the current QMO site has given us a platform to do more than our old blog on mozillaZine, we decided to take what we have learned over the past year and create a better QMO site that was more user-friendly, functional, and secure.
The first step towards an “official” QMO site was redesigning it from the ground up. I had to think about the site design (wiki), put together a rough site architecture (.pdf), and create a website design RFP (.pdf) before finding someone to help us. We decided to work with Airbag Industries during this first “visual refresh” phase of the project. With input from the QA team and commuity I defined a number of page templates and after a few weeks of collaboration with the Airbag team…
We now have our final HTML/CSS templates (click the main navigation menu to see the different templates)!
