[ncc-services-wg] The redesigned www.ripe.net is now live

Dear colleagues,

If you visit www.ripe.net today, you might notice some changes. For the past few months, we’ve been working on redesigning ripe.net, and we released the new version yesterday at approximately 18:00 UTC+1. 

Here are some of the major changes:
• The design of the website has changed 
• The content management system has been changed from Plone to Wagtail
• We migrated servers to make this switch
• The website is now significantly more mobile and tablet friendly
• We are using a new search engine on the website, so search results should be more relevant, and we will be investing time to make this experience even better
• Accessibility has been improved, and we aim to align with WCAG 2.1 standards as soon as possible
• Visitors should see some performance improvements, and we aim to continue adding improvements for usability and energy efficiency
• The RIPE community is more prominent and easy to access from the top-level navigation under “community”, and we are applying a new community design to community-related pages:
https://www.ripe.net/community/

The overall navigation of the website has not been significantly altered to ensure a smooth transition. We will be making more changes to the navigation to improve readability and discoverability. 

Many of you shared input in a survey and some of you joined us for user interviews at RIPE 86 and for conversations following my presentation at RIPE 87. Thank you for helping us through this process. 

While we have launched the newly redesigned website, with over 8,000 web pages migrated to the new platform, we know there will be fixes and tweaks needed in the weeks to come. If you notice any issues or have feedback, please let us know on the forum:
https://forum.ripe.net/t/www-ripe-net-redesign-is-live/820

For anything urgent, please email us at webmaster at ripe.net

Kind regards,

Phillip Oldham (he/him) <poldham at ripe.net>
Manager, Web Services
RIPE NCC
Stationsplein 11, 1012 AB Amsterdam