[NCUC E-team] Suggestion for website update

[Brenden Kuerbis]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 7:39 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi James
>
> Thanks for doing this, interesting.  To be honest though I’m less
> aesthetically bored with the existing site than you are (although I wish
> people would provide more content),
>


One problem with the existing site - we don't take advantage even when
people provide great content. E.g., the "Members Blog" is not a blog,
rather a static page with links to pdf files. Each article should be an
actual blog post, that can be indexed, create a RSS feed, republished, etc.



> and the volunteers who developed it not long ago might feel funny about us
> changing it already.  Maybe revisit next year?
>

Personally, I thought the prototype James worked up is great, with more
images and less text. And to my point above, it actually uses the content
created by folks in several places, e.g., on the home page and
http://188.166.85.226/news-and-media/blog/

IMO, if James is willing, I'd say revamp the site!

-- B


>
> Bill
>
> On Aug 21, 2015, at 1:14 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I don’t see much interest in this unfortunately so I’ll come back and
> revisit it later in the year to see if there is more response, I’ll be
> taking down the development site listed below on Sunday so if anyone has
> any further feedback before I put it on a shelf to be looked at later
> please let me know.
>
>
> -James
>
>
> On 12 Aug 2015, at 13:06, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I was working on some side projects over the weekend that meant I was
> doing a lot of tinkering with Wordpress, and in a bout of late night
> insomnia I thought I would float the idea of a potential new look for the
> NCUC site.
> I spent a few hours throwing together a very rough mockup for the e-team
> to have a look at and consider.
>
> http://188.166.85.226/
>
> This is by no means a complete site and would need some more work on
> copying across all of the content that is on the current site. My rough
> goals were to bring a modern clean look to the site and possibly drive some
> more members in who might find us online.
> If people are interested please let me know and I will flesh out the site
> so that the e-team can consider it as a full proposal, I’ve brought it to
> you guys now as an early mockup before I put too much time into it so that
> I can get some feedback on whether people are interesting in having a look
> at this project or not.
>
> I’m perfectly happy to do the heavy lifting on this one if people want me
> to go ahead with it.
> Thought and feedback welcomed and accepted.
>
> -James Gannon
>
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