[Committee] website structure update

[Gunnar Möller]

Hi Maki!

The new site design looks like a nice high-tech user interface!

Just two propositions: in my browser, the side menu items on the left are
displayed considerably tighter than the logo just above it. It might be
a nice idea to massage these elements into a single column, with the
top menu header and main content aligned below each other, as well.

I'd also appreciate some more visible colors for headlines, and probably
globally larger fonts. Fonts might be a Linux-problem only, though. I have
the impression that windows explorer generally renders things in bigger
fonts.

Cheers,

Gunnar

On 1/18/07, Nicky Scordellis <ns337 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi maki, thanks for taking the time to design a website! Looks like a
> great
> design but my main comment would be that I think one of the most important
> things is to have info about what the society's objectives are and what
> its
> approach to achieving them is (currently neither this website nor the
> zerocarbonnow website actually cover this) because otherwise it's very
> confusing to visitors who don't already know about the society.  Sorry if
> you were already planning to add this!  Otherwise great stuff, so thanks.
>
> Hopefully see you soon,
>
> Nicky
>
> PS also there's a typo in strategy (top right of homepage)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: committee-bounces at zerocarbonnow.org
> [mailto:committee-bounces at zerocarbonnow.org] On Behalf Of maki
> Sent: 18 January 2007 15:34
> To: committee at zerocarbonnow.org
> Subject: [Committee] website structure update
>
>
> Happy new year guys!
>
> here's a mockup I've been working on: comments and suggestions welcome!
> also do feel free to take the ideas and code and run with them as I
> don't feel at all possessive about them (all open-source, copy-left)
>
> http://members.lycos.co.uk/mackie3/
>
> NOTE: since we are using Lycos as a free host (for their sql
> implementation), there is advertising, which if it obscures the page,
> luckily disappears after a while. just click the link to open the page
> and go away to make a snack or something before coming back by which
> time the advert should have disappeared :p
>
> more details of how this is implemented at
> http://members.lycos.co.uk/mackie3/#website
>
> and it also tells you how to modify it (for example, you could leave
> comments!) but as of yesterday it's not completely straightforward, as
> you have to go to a "hidden page"
> http://members.lycos.co.uk/mackie3/#author:true , login (username: czcs
> password czcs) and reload with a particular page
> http://members.lycos.co.uk/mackie3/#author:true , make your changes and
> then hit the "Upload storeArea" button at the top of the page.
>
> originally this was a modified version of my homepage,
> http://www.makiaea.org but I just managed to implement a new server-side
> implementation (both are available from the link in the paragraph above)
> on the free lycos test site, which is not possible on my free homepage
> host (google) but may be possible on zerocarbonnow.org . While my
> homepage is entirely based on single-files, this new mockup uses an sql
> database. The huge advantage is that you can edit and save with one
> click, the disadvantage is you need to set up the system to allow you to
> do this.
>
> in any case this is not about replacing the current website but just
> some ideas i threw together about the structure of it, a mockup of where
> the categories go rather than what colors or logos it uses. this "web
> 2.0" arrangement just makes it easier for me to do prototyping. Having
> said this, I haven't time to maintain a "traditional web 1.0" html site
> so this is what I use everyday as well.
>
> so as i said at the beginning, please take it and run with it!
>
> love, maki
>
> (the following isn't of much interest, but) if you haven't seen the
> original mockup from last term, ti was stored at
>
> https://camtools.caret.cam.ac.uk/access/content/group/3eee4372-bf50-478a-007
>
> 9-ed581413d528/Design/20061108website%20structure%20template/20061108zerocar
> bonwebsitestructuremockup.html
>
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