Latest from the web team — September 2013

We might have been quiet, but we have been busy! Here’s a quick overview of what the web team has been up to recently.

In the past month we’ve worked on:

• New juju.ubuntu.com website: we’ve revamped the information architecture, revisited the key journeys and updated the look to be more in line with www.ubuntu.com
• Fenchurch (our CMS): we’ve worked on speeding up deployment and continuous testing
• New Ubuntu OpenStack cloud section on www.ubuntu.com/cloud: we’ve launched a restructured cloud section, with links to more resources, clearer journeys and updated design
• Juju GUI: we’ve launched the brand new service inspector

And we’re currently working on:

• 13.10 release updates: the new Ubuntu release is upon us, and we’re getting the website ready to show it off
• A completely new project that will be our mobile/responsive pilot: we’re updating our web patterns to a more future-friendly shape, investigating solutions to handle responsive images, and we’ve set up a (growing) mobile device testing suite — watch this space for more on this project
• Fenchurch: we’re improving our internal demo servers and enhancing performance on the downloads page to help deal with release days!
• Usability testing of the new cloud section: following the aforementioned launch, Tingting is helping us test these pages with their target audience — and we’ve already found loads of things we can improve!
• A new canonical.com: we haven’t worked on Canonical’s main website in a while, so we’re looking into making it leaner and meaner. As a first stage, Carla has been conducting internal interviews and analysing the existing content
• Juju GUI: we’re designing on-boarding and a new notification system, and we’re finalising designs for the masthead, service block and relationship lines

We’ve also learnt that Spencer’s favourite author is Paul Auster. And Tristram wrote a post on his blog about his first experience with Juju.

Spencer giving his 5×5 presentation at last week’s web team meeting

Have you got any questions or suggestions for us? Would you like to hear about any of these projects and tasks in more detail? Please let us know your thoughts in the comments.