[NCUC E-team] Update on NCUC website redesign
William Drake
william.drake at uzh.ch
Sun Mar 24 20:48:29 CET 2013
Hi Sarah
Thanks for all your hard work on the web site, very much appreciated. It'd be good to talk about the options for moving forward on Constituency Day, Tuesday 9 April 9-12:30 Beijing time. Any chance you could join us remotely if you're not coming for show and tell + discussion with the assembled? We'd have to figure out how to get them uploaded in Adobe Connect but I'm sure someone here knows how to do that…
As for the photos,
On Mar 24, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Sarah Clayton <sarahliannec at gmail.com> wrote:
> A main concern of mine relates to the photo page. On the current
> website most of the photos look very amateurish. In my opinion most
> are not suitable for the NCUC website. I think we need fewer photos,
> carefully selected, that are of high quality/interesting/aesthetically
> pleasing.
It's not obvious how aesthetically pleasing shots of us can be, but I take your point that if we want the site to look more official/professional we'd have to adopt a filtering concept and try to look less like a network of CS types.
> They don't have to be professionally taken, they just need
> to be good - for example these ones are decent:
> http://api.ning.com/files/5-hdmJErqPIPxCqIUkYYnrNq0NSrAgVtELXomt4QLaJ0WQ74*ll5lwWgGsed7wm4l9s-ZmBZwpUjXp5CSkSdjhzVcQYcRh1W/DSCN0396.JPG?width=737&height=552
> http://api.ning.com/files/ixTjZqXwI7440Rti8hfpJR-NYfg6Lq*hbDcQCdQxp*nyMKQK70mnRfjpAJxCJ8R7mqN51sYnYM5mEKYQ7*2BMXAYzjvPKiFJ/IMG_1652.JPG?width=737&height=552
>
> If we are re-branding, it doesn't look good publishing lots of random
> photos of people partying, lots of similar looking photos or
> publishing photos like this:
> http://api.ning.com/files/BdoudfznF9mNO8DKY8B1S3Mdm7XAYdlg3qBb3akuITegQaM7ZFUJEINCVFT3*42M5Xq7KFOPXF0rkfjYLNDKKTZOZiITPX0u/IMG_1642.JPG?width=737&height=552
> (he looks like he's sleeping!) when we really want to be taken
> seriously.
He was sleeping! While Bill Clinton spoke. I took that pic. It was a golden moment…
But yeah, I guess that one should go, although I wouldn't want to banish humor, or have a site members feel is more untouchable than theirs.
Cheers
Bill
>
> I hope my concerns are taken on board. :)
>
> Thanks :)
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>> Looks good.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Wilson Abigaba <wilson at isoc.ug> wrote:
>>> Thanks Sarah,
>>>
>>> Please send me the PSD with editable layers so that I convert it to a
>>> wordpress theme.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Wilson
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Sarah Clayton <sarahliannec at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I have done some more work with the design.
>>>>
>>>> We spoke of a scrolling banner for the homepage - I have designed one
>>>> other option for this. I think we perhaps need a couple more, but I
>>>> was struggling for design/content ideas - see attached.
>>>>
>>>> Also see attached for my initial flow chart as to how the website will
>>>> work - what pages will link to what etc. I'm sure there are some
>>>> missing pages there, but it's a start and something to think about.
>>>>
>>>> Resources should have a drop-down menu from the top navigation bar -
>>>> see attached for the idea - 'website homepage design with drop down
>>>> boxes'
>>>>
>>>> The resources section has a menu bar on the left side holding the
>>>> sub-menu options. Any other pages with sub-menus should have the same
>>>> layout. Pages without sub-menus should have a similar layout to the
>>>> 'about' page.
>>>>
>>>> I can email over the associated Photoshop files. Is there anyone in
>>>> particular that I should email these to?
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps move things forward.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Sarah
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>>>>> The font is ok. One wonders if
>>>>>
>>>>> NC
>>>>> UC
>>>>>
>>>>> wouldn't work better for square.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Sarah Clayton <sarahliannec at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have just spoken to Brenden about the website redesign.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mock-up homepage style guide:
>>>>>> • NCUC logo - Caviar Dreams -
>>>>>> http://www.dafont.com/caviar-dreams.font
>>>>>> • main text - font size 14, verdana, black
>>>>>> • menu text (home, about etc) - font size 16, line under menu
>>>>>> text -
>>>>>> colour #888888
>>>>>> • search - font size 14, colour #555544
>>>>>> • members login' - font size 12, black
>>>>>> • blue text - colour #5555bb (size 14, verdana)
>>>>>> • Blue links – I was thinking the hover could be a darker blue –
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> specified yet
>>>>>> • light grey dividing lines - colour #dddddd
>>>>>> • background - colour #eeeeee
>>>>>> • top - colour #fefefe (or any colour just off white)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the header, we thought we could perhaps change ‘Blog’ to ‘News’ and
>>>>>> ‘Contact’ to ‘Join’.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We also discussed a drop down menu from ‘Resources’, including the
>>>>>> pages:
>>>>>> • Governance – with links from here to – Charter, Officers and
>>>>>> Members
>>>>>> • Meetings
>>>>>> • Statements
>>>>>> • Discussion
>>>>>> • Photos
>>>>>> • Videos
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are satisfied the new logo will fit into a square for our social
>>>>>> media presence. Is everybody happy with the new logo? (see attached)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will start designing some new banner ideas for the rotating banner.
>>>>>> Does anybody have any further image/branding suggestions before I
>>>>>> embark on design?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will also start designing further webpages for comment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anybody have any further suggestions regarding anything that I am
>>>>>> doing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sarah
>>>>>>
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