[Imc-alternatives] DESIGN: the rough sketches

[strypey at riseup.net]

Kia ora koutou

I really wanted to respond to Mr Liberal's sentiments. Yes, it seems like a 
frustrating process, but ultimately we do need a name, and as Sheri says, the 
process of choosing it can help us focus our vision for the site's future. It 
can also be a constructive process of establishing how we are going to work 
together and make decisions about building, maintaining, and evolving the site 
through the years. Also, keep in mind that the grunt work of getting the site up 
carries on while we have this discussion, it's not an either/ or process. We can 
multi-task!

I really want to thank the design subgroup for all their work in focusing all 
our years of fluffy brainstorming into these wireframe picture that paint 1000 
words for the geeks we expect to build our foundations. I want to re-emphasize 
the importance of Jay's point about the 3 functional aspects of the site being 
integrated around topic pages - that's the key to what I think will make this 
site innovative and effective. I also really agree with the point about lots of 
graphics, and space, and being pleasing to the eye. Unlike with paper 
publications - where every page added to the project, adds to the cost - we have 
as much cyberspace as we need to lay things out in an easily digestive way.

Keep up the good work folks!
Strypes

Jay wrote:
>> At 6/19/2008, Nick wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just posted my intial (rough) design sketches to crabgrass:
>> https://we.riseup.net/imc-alt/initial-site-sketches+9583 . Please feel
>> free to look them over and comment.
> 
> Thank you so much, Nick!
> 
> I want to make sure people on this list who haven't been following 
> the design IRC meetings have some context for the basic set-up of the site.
> 
> After a lot of discussions about ways to conceive the site, we 
> decided to suggest that there should be three main sections:
> -- News
> -- Knowledge: the knowledge-base, which is a participatory "how-to" 
> section with practical instruction of how to create alternatives 
> projects, kind of like WikiHow, and
> -- Network, which would include personal and organizational profiles, 
> lots of ways to connect with each other (chat and forums etc.) and a 
> wants/needs section, kind of like Craigslist for alternatives projects.
> 
> The content for these sections would be integrated on all the 
> pages.  So, on a page with news about alternative education, there 
> would also be links to Knowledge-base articles about it and to the 
> profiles of individuals and organizations who do that kind of work.
> 
> We decided that the front page could be a "portal" of sorts that 
> would lead to a main page for each of the above sections, and that 
> all the pages should have lots of images and look nice, rather than 
> be packed to the gills with text like many IMC sites.
> 
> Nick, Michael and I can do a lot more explaining, so ask questions.  Gotta run!
> Jay
> 
> 
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