Emerge IA / Sitemap

[Reed Wade]

See the attached zip file (be sure to extract it someplace before
loading the html file inside there).

I've tagged the top level sections with a (1) there are a few second
level sections that get a (2).

The general layout is:
- logo and nav bar at the top
- a footer with a couple of items at the bottom
- all pages are main content on left 2/3rd's with a right 1/3 column
that has some specific content as described in the site map / IA html
file
- except the home page which has 3 columns

Steph will be arranging a review of this with Emerge soon. It's likely
some bits will change.

For a schematic of the home page see--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reedwade/4737213085/

Other whiteboard captures at--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reedwade/tags/emerge/

Let me know what questions this raises. I'm certain there should be some.

Steph, Katia, Kristina -- please add your notes and thoughts and
recollections and etc.

thanks,
-reed

[Reed Wade]

ah, one thing--

The 'blowing our trumpet' section is intended to be used like a blog
sort of. This is where they'll add new content normally. The right
hand column of the home page will show content from there with a
particular category or 'show on home' setting.

The rest of the site is probably page oriented instead of posting oriented.

The layout for the 'blowing our trumpet' section landing is not well
defined yet.

-reed

[Tim McNamara]

Hi Reed

Thanks for this! The tree site is neat.

I'll see what I can do about creating some design mockups.I'm really stretched for time until Sat avo, unfortuntely. But can do some thinking.

How would you like the XHTML to be structured on the homepage? For screen readers, earlier content is read first. What would you like to be read first by screen readers?

Can we confirm the term "benefactor"? I've been involved with the community sector for several years and am used to "sponsor" and "supporter".

Doesn't seem to be much space for (stock) images...

Which access keys would you like activated? Where should they go?

I note there are no social media share/like buttons - intentional?

I know this is possibly late in the piece, but I would much prefer to work with a Python CMS. If I can find something that's still super-easy on users, would that be okay? History: I built a Wordpress plugin on Sunday and found myself getting tripped up on PHP syntax & vocab.  Can handle things if there's desire to keep things to WP.


Tim

[Reed Wade]

re: most of your questions -- dunno, that's probably a
Steph/Kristina/Katia question

re: Wordpress - I don't see us as stuck on that.

Pros were that the editing interface is really nice and that it is
known to work, lot's of extensions etc. But that's it. I way prefer
python myself for everything. PHP is the devil's cornbread.

But, if we find ourselves needing to poke around at that level then
we're doing something wrong and leaving them with something that needs
to be maintained by us in the future. I would hope we can meet all
their needs with some stock templates plus a little css and imagery.

But, do tell, what's your fav Python flavored CMS? (--just fyi, if you
do say Plone I will need to hurt you.)

-reed

[Katia Guiloff]

Awesome work Reed, thanks!

[Steph Beath]

Hi guys - just catching up on some of these dicsussions.

 

- I will be talking with Emerge tomorrow about the IA abnd the term benefactor will be discussed then. I'll let you know the outcome.

- Social media share etc - not intentional - not discussed. Just an oversight. Yes - we definitely want to include this and it should be visible above the (now non-existent) fold if possible. I suggest top left below the main navigation and above the page content.

- Space for stock images - agree.  Let me talk to Emerge tomorrow and then if they're happy with the function, we can tweak the layout to allow for more imagery.  This is a first functional design remember, so we can play with it still.

- In terms of reading order for the page - can we work on this once we're a bit further along with the content?  I think it would be best to have a couple of pages planned out completely before we make decisions about feeding order.

- I'm not sure which access keys we want activated. Again - can we have a discussion around this when we next meet. I'm not really in the accessibility specifics headspace yet. Still working on the basics - meeting business needs and user information needs first :)

 

Cheers,  Steph

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