2012 Website Redesign

This page was created to start collecting information for a website redesign, as proposed by the PR Committee.

New and Improved Features/Structure

"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).
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

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
Accessible in Debian (for server hosting)
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
Ideal: site that can produce static pages without having to send them to a database for backup

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
Keep current Logo (Remove pictures and just use the Free Geek logo), Choose colors/fonts that flow nicely from the logo.
Muted colors, New Scheme (Green ?), Fading colors/gradients
Front page has link to Spanish Program Info page listing hours, Spanish tour times, basic descriptions of Build and Adoption in Spanish