Difference between revisions of "2012 Website Redesign"
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Revision as of 11:01, 28 September 2012
This page was created to start collecting information for a website redesign, as proposed by the PR Committee.
New and Improved Features
- "Free Geek in the Media" page with links to media features, flexible archival settings
- Option whether or not to post new page content in that page's category page feed (e.g. option not to include Media posts in main News feed)
- "Large Donors/Partners" page listing individual donations over a certain amount, institutional and in-kind donors, corporate logos?
- Newsletter sign-up button
- Streaming Twitter/Facebook feed
- Seperate pages for institutional and individual donors
- Bold donate button on front page
- Address and hours on front page (and footer of every page).
- Links to wiki, possibly other outward facing services
- "Digital Tour": Area highlights w/ photos, more expository descriptions
- Integrate Inreach programs (e.g., Star Volunteers, Events, etc)
- Must be mobile-friendly!
- Presence for current certifications
- Incorporate Spanish pages (or...whole separate Spanish website).
Technical/Maintenance
- Easy/quick for staff and volunteers to maintain
- Admin: pretty easy to learn to administer, easy to add users and privileges, easy to make new pages, easy to change layout of old pages
- Analytics to view click-throughs to individual posts, and internal navigation between individual pages and posts
- Quick loading for dial-up users
- Limit JavaScript
- More cohesive method/procedure to maintain site
- Ability to integrate with RT
Structure/Features
- Submenus
- RSS feed
- Photo area (Flickr account link?)
- Header on every page: Logo, Hours/Location/Phone, Link to directions, Social Media Buttons
- Footer on every page: Text Navigation and Search bar
- No Blog looking content, except on community news page
- Full articles on community news page.
- Currents news on Home page with fully flexible posting options
Layout/Design
- Press area expanded to include links to FG in the news, articles, FG YouTube page, link to reddit?
- Corporate hardware donor and Financial donor thanks page
- Friends/Partners links
- Links to other Free Geeks and similar organizations
- Harmful stuff in computers page
- Photo area
- Map images with links - Google, Trimet, Bicycle
- More prominent hours, location, phone number on front page
- Little to no scroll on front page
- More information in other languages, primarily Spanish (Omar can help with this)
Branding
- Reuse/Recycling
- Community
- Environmentalism
- Casual
- Empowered
- Open Source
- Global , diverse, accessible
- Creative
- Comfortable with change
- Sustainable/Green
- Community Resource
- Fun
- Cooperative Learning
Current Website
- Busy (Make new site Clean)
- Dated (Make new site Modern)
- Constrained (Make new site Flexible)
- Intelligent and fun (writing style)
- Some elements are easy to use (Build on this)
- Wants:*
· Simple Front Page (very little scrolling, if any)
· Keep current Logo (Remove pictures and just use the Free Geek logo), Choose colors that flow nicely from the logo.
· Muted colors
· New Scheme (Green ?)
· Fading colors/gradients