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Base theme
The Base theme was developed to provide a template for creating other themes.
Project lead: Paul Jackson (@pjackson28)
The Base theme was developed to meet the principles of the Standard on Web Usability.
- All working examples
- Working example with mega menu
- Working example with mega menu and optional vertical menu (secondary navigation version 1)
- Working example with mega menu and optional vertical menu (secondary navigation version 2)
- Top tasks have been tested with users: contact us, search, return to home page, learn about us, stay connected through social media, navigate the site, read the terms and conditions, and toggling to the users official language of choice.
- Conforms to the Standard on Web Accessibility and meets the principles of the Standard on Web Usability
- Conforms to WCAG 2.0 AA
- Responsive design that includes both mobile and desktop views
- Uses HTML5 semantic elements and WAI-ARIA to enhance accessibility
- Groups most of the navigation after the content area
- Validates to HTML5 and is XML conformant
- This theme can be used to build additional themes for the Web Experience Toolkit.
- This theme should not be used as is, it should only be used as a template for another theme.
The theme adapts the Web Experience Toolkit core framework for use on other sites.
Content should focus on users' top tasks. Users tend to navigate through the content area first and then to the menus. They are looking for keywords that will help them meet their information need. Write in active voice and use verbs. Users will often scan the information looking for things that stand out - like links. Each link must be descriptive and representative of the content to which it leads. This is especially pronounced when users are accessing the site via a mobile device.
- Use the \theme-base\*.html files to create your Web pages.
- Optional: Create and install one or more new CSS files (will be used for custom CSS)
- Optional: Create link(s) to the new CSS file(s) in between the following comments:
< !-- CustomScriptsCSSStart --> < !-- CustomScriptsCSSEnd -->
- Correct all *.css, *.js, and *.gif file paths referenced in the installed *.html files
- Replace the page title (in between <title> and </title>,), the site title, and the content title (in between <h1 id="wb-cont"> and </h1>)
- Replace the metadata values
- Correct the menu bar links or remove the menu bar
- Correct the mega menu links or remove the mega menus
- Correct the English/français link or remove those links
- Optional: Implement either secondary navigation version 1 or secondary navigation version 2
- Correct the site title
- Correct the search field
- Correct the breadcrumb links or remove the breadcrumb
- Correct the site footer links
- Correct the Date modified/Date de modification
The code for the Base theme is located in several places within the source folder of WET:
- theme-base/js/theme.js - contains the JavaScript code for the Base theme
- theme-base/sass/theme.scss - contains the CSS for the Base theme content pages
- theme-base/sass/theme-ie.scss - contains the IE7/8-specific CSS for the Base theme content pages
- theme-base/sass/includes/ - contains the include files for building the CSS files for the Base theme
- theme-base/jquery.mobile/jquery.mobile.theme.css - contains the jQuery Mobile specific CSS for the Base theme
- theme-base/images/ - contains the images for the Base theme
- theme-base/jquery.mobile/images/ - contains the jQuery Mobile specific images for the Base theme
- CSS styling will not be entirely consistent across all browsers since many of them will interpret CSS syntax differently.
- Usability testing is required on the styles in the CSS grid system.