Website Plans: Presentation
Website Plans
Contents
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Overview – The starting point for documentation about our plans for the website.
- Introduction
- Terminology
- Document structure
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Strategy – Details of our strategy for developing the website.
- Evolution over revolution
- IT and joined-up data
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Your input – We want your help. This is your website; we value your ideas and feedback.
- What are we looking for?
- How to send us your ideas.
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Schedule – When things are going to happen. Time scales, as far as we are able to estimate them.
- Road map
- Time line
- Tasks list
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Participation – A website where you get to take part, rather than passively absorb information, will be more fun and productive. We have plans to make this happen.
- Communication
- Members-only areas
- Interaction
- Contribution
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Facilities – Plans for the website in terms of functionality, useful tools and other applications.
- Social media integration
- Directory of writing groups
- On-line competitions
- Link magazine
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Features – Plans for the behavioural and technical aspects of the site.
- Privacy & security
- People database
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Articles & editing
- Temporal content
- Markdown for content
- Automatic TOC generation
- PayPal integration
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Content – Plans for what articles, pages and other information to have on the site. Examples: news, information, events, competitions, products and services.
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Material
- Revamp "who is NAWG?" area
- Organisation
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Presentation – Plans for improvements and additions to the way the site appears, e.g. its layout, styling and navigation.
- Layout
- Style
- Navigation
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Management – Plans to improve the operational aspects of the site, i.e. the way it's run and maintained, and the way we respond to communications.
- Operations & procedures
- Who does what?
Some of the above titles are hyperlinks.
Click for more detailed documentation.
More will become links as things evolve.
Presentation includes things such as the following:
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Layout – the positioning of display components on the page.
- Banners and headers.
- Content display areas.
- Side bars and widgets.
- Footers.
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Styling – the "look and feel" of the site, e.g:
- Colour schemes.
- Typefaces.
- Images and other graphics.
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Navigation – finding your way around the site.
- Menus.
- Search tools.
- Categories, tags and other organisational features.
Here are our plans for improving the presentation of the website. As usual, we welcome your own ideas and feedback.
Layout
- Add support for mobile devices, such as phones and tablets.
Style
- Replace the "stubby pencil" logo with the official "chain link" one.
Navigation
- Collapsing menus: To save vertical space, only the top level of the hierarchy is shown. Clicking or perhaps hovering over would expand a particular item, showing the sub-items below.
- Automatic side-bar hiding: When not in use, the side bar(s) would disappear, leaving only a small "wakeup" symbol behind. This would give us more screen real estate for the main content.