Tech Talk
Redesign
Monday, December 1, 2003
Thinking about redesigning 5rocks.com, bethanyhills.com, and/or david.larocque.net-type sites:0 Comments
- Look-n-feel
- CSS as much as possible (why?, David Shea's cribsheet)
- Some ideas:
- MS Publisher Arrows, Bounce, or Photoscope designs, for easy congruence with print materials, particularly for bethanyhills.com
- Zen Garden ideas: Stormweather, A Garden Apart, Calm & Smooth, or Zunflower (more)
- Google news (dual-column, simple colors)
- MSN (a bit much, but lots of content crammed in pretty well)
- Accessibility
- Dive into Accessibility
- Not like this one
- Good CSS-print version
- NYPL online style guide
- Management
- Support Mozilla-based editing
- Expand db-backed photo system to all sites
- Provide more layout theme variety
- Seasonal
- Pick graphically
- Different arrangements
- Content
- Header
- Logo
- General menu
- Breadcrumbs
- Search
- Menu
- Expandable
- Favorites
- Content
- Intro
- News
- Calendar
- Photos
- "Ads"
- Groups, with subset of news/calendar/photos
- Cookie-content?
- Auto-favorites
- Intro or not
- Last searches
- Auto-login
- Color scheme
- Font size
- Privacy
- Items have public and/or private versions
- Must err on conservative with kids, on any sit