Varying a theme - Sites for the SAP/i2 upgrade
Before we had an offical IT Web Style Guide, those of us creating the IT part of TI's intranet were pretty much on our own with regard to look and feel. We worked together to develop sites that felt familiar but with enough difference from one to the next to help people know where they were. Those simple, familiar designs were handy when I needed to create a series of sites to support a multi-year project to upgrade TI's SAP and i2 systems.
As with many website projects at TI, the SAP/i2 upgrade sites served a two-fold purpose--keep some people informed while telling some other people how to do some things. Thus, we had the SAP/i2 Upgrade Project site aimed primarily at managers who wanted to know what was going on and how it all affected their operations. The SAP/GUI 2.0 Upgrade site gave affected users worldwide specific instructions for installing the latest the SAP Graphical User Interface on their workstations and tips and tricks to familiarize them with it. The Supply Chain Event Manager (SCEM) site introduced the SAP SCEM tool and documented how to gain access to it and start using it. The Multi-Factory Flow (MFF) site introduced a new way to track product development through multiple factories.
The team requested that the SAP/GUI site in particular resemble the look and feel of the GUI itself to begin familiarizing users with it. That became a starting point for much of the rest of the look and feel for the sites. I designed, built, and wrote all of these sites.
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