[Imc-alternatives] DESIGN: more thoughts on sitemap

[Jay]

Hi Michael,

I'm excited about all these developments!  I think after all these years we're finally getting somewhere.  

The next Design team IRC meeting is this sunday at 9pm.  Josh said he'll try to be there, and I hope Nick can come.  I probably won't have time to reply to your recent additions to the crabgrass page before Sunday, but we can talk about anything relevant at the meeting.

Jay

-----Original Message-----
>From: lancaster-imc at riseup.net
>Sent: Apr 25, 2008 3:45 PM
>To: A list for volunteers wanting to work on the Alternatives IMC <imc-alternatives at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Imc-alternatives] DESIGN: more thoughts on sitemap
>
>Thanks Jay for pasting this over and also re-phrasing and summarizing it
>at the top. I also just want to add that in some respects I am dually
>reflecting what the lpimc site will provide, which is more of
>a-little-for-everyone than the imc-alt site is proposed to be. In
>Lancaster over the past year we have strived to make connections in more
>than just the liberal left community--our vision for the Lancaster imc is
>a community news site that is democratic and inclusive to all, even people
>with more conservative view points--a way of enrichening lives with
>diverse points of view and likely polaritus-discussions (polaritus is not
>a word, I just made it up). Also, we want the IMC in Lancaster to be,
>among other things, a multi-media bridge between communities and cultures,
>and we believe we should provide information and let people decide/think
>for themselves. So, just thought I would clarify somewhat was lpimc web
>development will in most regards parallel imc-alt, and probably carry a
>topic/etc "Alternatives," which will rss feed to the IMC-Alt Features
>newswire, like US-IMC does with other US IMC'S.
>
>I am building a basic wireframe to summarize my basic ideas about frontend
>design, which is built on discussions we have had here locally. Hope
>everyone is doing well.
>
>Jay, when is the next design meeting?
>
>mV
>
>> Hi Michael and all,
>>
>> Everyone should check out Michael's thoughts
>> about the imc-alternatives sitemap.  You can
>> check them out at
>> https://we.riseup.net/michaelv/step-one-sitemap+7378,
>> or for reference I'll paste them below this e-mail.
>>
>> I'll put my thoughts here and also on
>> https://we.riseup.net/michaelv/step-one-sitemap+7378.
>>
>> Michael, these are great ideas.  As we move
>> toward solidifying a sitemap, I think we should
>> start with really basic architecture and build
>> up.  A lot of the ideas you have are for features
>> we should eventually add to the site.  To get
>> closer to mapping the site, what I'm going to do
>> is go through the list of features and suggest
>> where they might fit within the basic structural
>> sitemap I suggested.  Here's a first shot at it:
>>
>> MAIN PAGE:
>>
>> -- Some block organizing tools stylized from the
>> yahoo front page, such as center left block.
>> <https://we.riseup.net/assets/1032/yahoo_front_page.png>https://we.riseup.net/assets/1032/yahoo_front_page.png
>>
>>
>> --A new more visual java approach to the city
>> list would be nice, more like a globe that can be
>> rotated and zoomed in, with imc’s instead of
>> cities. This could be in addition to the old
>> method, and within one of the top yahoo-like tabs
>>
>> -- Customizable front page for registered users, like my yahoo or igoogle.
>>
>> -- A ticker-tape headline/alert banner above top
>> horizontal menu, instead of the block method on
>> phillyimc. This would allow for more headlines or
>> other important news blurbs and given today’s
>> advances could be visually appealing and interactive.
>>
>> -- Weather from weatherunderground
.we should
>> strive to provide things mainstream people look
>> for, and also just try and provide more than the
>> usual political fair in order to expand the
>> audience, but also provide various levels of
>> information. [Jay's note: I'm not sure the
>> alternatives site needs to try to be all things
>> to all people, but we should definitely talk
>> about what kind of features we need to add to
>> inspire people to spend use the site as one of their main destinations.]
>>
>> -- Blogs, definitely blogs [Jay's note: in
>> addition to the open-publishing "solutions-wire"
>> we could have a "solutoins blog-wire" with headlines from alternatives
>> blogs]
>>
>> -- Frontend page that links with the crabgrass
>> tool by providing info to users such as inbox messages or recent emails.
>>
>> -- a simple log in. I don’t think it has to be
>> huge, but can simply be a hyperlinked “Log in” with a page for logging in.
>>
>> ON KNOWLEDGE BASE PAGE:
>>
>> -- a wikipedia-like feature for
>> resources/history, possibly somehow connected
>> with the crabgrass public wiki documents/pages,
>> and readily searchable by multiple methods.
>>
>> -- Skill-shares and Labor-exchange (Crabgrass
>> will actually have these as features, I believe)
>>
>> -- Freebay.org-like aspect (could be an integrated part of want-lists)
>>
>> ON CATEGORY PAGES and throughout site:
>> -- Video-sharing: Essential for any IMC, but in
>> this context would provide a great documentative aspect to the site.
>>
>> -- Photo-sharing/galleries and slideshows:
>>
>> -- Forums
>>
>> THROUGHOUT SITE:
>>
>> -- Deep rss feeds
>>
>> -- Certain parts of the site aligned with
>> editorial standards to get picked up by the
>> various news aggregating services out there, like
>> digg, wordpress, yahoo, google, etc.
>>
>> -- The ability of users to personalize rss feeds
>> for live bookmarks by tags/topics of preference.
>>
>> This is just a first pass.  We can pin things down better as we go
>> forward.
>>
>> Jay
>> ***
>> MICHAEL'S SITEMAP THOUGHTS
>> When I have thought about “Alternatives” I have
>> imagined that the site in and of itself would
>> represent an alternative vision, or visions, of
>> what an IMC site can look like and function as,
>> how it could continue to evolve as the needs of
>> the community evolve and change
.as the times and
>> technologies change. To me, Alternatives
>> represents a wide-opened gateway to introduce the
>> public to new, innovative tools and resources.
>> So, in other words, I don’t only think we should
>> be a space for discussing or announcing
>> alternatives, but exploration and leading by example(s).
>>     * Skill-shares and Labor-exchange (Crabgrass
>> will actually have these as features, I believe)
>>     * Video-sharing: Essential for any IMC, but
>> in this context would provide a great documentative aspect to the site.
>>     * Photo-sharing/galleries and slideshows:
>>     * Forums
>>     * Freebay.org-like aspect (could be an integrated part of want-lists)
>>     * Bartering aspect to want-lists: where
>> people can post skills or materials wanted, and
>> what skills/materials they might have to barter in exchange.
>>     * Some block organizing tools stylized from
>> the yahoo front page, such as center left block.
>> <https://we.riseup.net/assets/1032/yahoo_front_page.png>https://we.riseup.net/assets/1032/yahoo_front_page.png
>>
>>     * A new more visual java approach to the city
>> list would be nice, more like a globe that can be
>> rotated and zoomed in, with imc’s instead of
>> cities. This could be in addition to the old
>> method, and within one of the top yahoo-like tabs
>>     * a wikipedia-like feature for
>> resources/history, possibly somehow connected
>> with the crabgrass public wiki documents/pages,
>> and readily searchable by multiple methods.
>>     * Customizable front page for registered users, like my yahoo or
>> igoogle.
>>     * A ticker-tape headline/alert banner above
>> top horizontal menu, instead of the block method
>> on phillyimc. This would allow for more headlines
>> or other important news blurbs and given today’s
>> advances could be visually appealing and interactive.
>>     * Weather from weatherunderground
.we should
>> strive to provide things mainstream people look
>> for, and also just try and provide more than the
>> usual political fair in order to expand the
>> audience, but also provide various levels of information.
>>     * Blogs, definitely blogs
>>     * Columns for the editorial collective active
>> volunteers, with similar rules like on op-ed news.
>>     * Deep rss feeds
>>     * Certain parts of the site aligned with
>> editorial standards to get picked up by the
>> various news aggregating services out there, like
>> digg, wordpress, yahoo, google, etc.
>>     * The ability of users to personalize rss
>> feeds for live bookmarks by tags/topics of preference.
>>     * Frontend page that links with the crabgrass
>> tool by providing info to users such as inbox messages or recent emails.
>>     * a simple log in. I don’t think it has to be
>> huge, but can simply be a hyperlinked “Log in” with a page for logging in.
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