[Imc-alternatives] just added to task list/next code day?

[Jay]

Hi imc-alternatives,

I just updated our task list at 
"http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/tasks/tasklist/show/691'". 
There seem to be a lot of tasks but of course we can do it!

I have a bunch of text things to put on the site -- improved text for 
help pages etc.  I'm hoping to add at least a few before the weekend.

So, when do we do our next code day?

Jay

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>Hi,
>
>I went through the domain23.info test site last night and started 
>working on a list of things to put on our task list 
>(http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/tasks/tasklist/show/691). 
>Before I mush them into the list I figured I'd throw them out here 
>to see if anyone who has been working on the site has anything to 
>add or subtract.  A lot of them are obvious changes that are already 
>in the works and a few of them are already on the task list in some form.
>(A big cheer to everyone who has been working on the site.  It's 
>really starting to come together.)
>
>FRONT PAGE:
>(Most of this is stuff to do to get the current page in line with 
>Nick's design -- http://www.thunderwhip.com/imc/Home-Page.jpg.)
>-- Move login/join/help/about/contact from bottom of right column to 
>top navigation bar.
>-- Add pages with text for Join/Help/About/Contact [I've posted 
>drafts of some of that text to this list]
>-- Update mission text [I posted a draft of that too.  I can find it 
>somewhere....]
>-- Add topic select drop down menu [Should we combine the Topics and 
>Tag cloud in some way?  Now that we have a tag cloud we should talk 
>through how we're going to do this]
>-- Add "ACT" button and description of what to publish.
>-- take out options listed under "navigation" on right column
>-- put global IMC list on bottom navigation [We haven't quite come 
>up with the best place for the global imc list yet.  We've talked 
>about putting it on a bottom navigation bar, which has yet to be created]
>-- create bottom navigation bar
>-- Match Nick's design in terms of layout for features (make photo 
>size bigger, take away summaries of all featured articles but the 
>main one, leaving just headlines.)
>-- of course match font colors and sizes
>-- is the logo on the top left the logo we want to use?
>
>ARTICLE PAGES:
>(to match http://www.thunderwhip.com/imc/Article-Page.jpg)
>-- have sectional newswire running down right side [i.e. if the 
>article is a news article it should have the Solution Wire on the 
>right column, if it's a networking profile it should have the 
>network wire, etc.]
>-- have a big landscape-oriented photo at the top of the article 
>stretching across the whole column (I think that looks nice and 
>clean) with the Related articles box below?
>-- Add mission and topic select bar to article pages for visual and 
>navigational consistency
>-- Fill in text for "more information about formatting options"
>-- We should explain what people are doing when they click "report" 
>and who it reports to
>-- Eventually we should give the option at the bottom of each 
>article to move discussion about an article from the comments 
>section to some kind of forum board.  Or is there a way we could 
>offer a threaded forum-style comments area rather than the 
>traditional chronological list?  I think an organized forum approach 
>makes people take their comment-writing more seriously, as if 
>they're actually having a discussion, rather than the traditional 
>indymedia (and now YouTube) comment list that encourages response 
>just to the most recent comment.
>
>NETWORK:
>(http://www.thunderwhip.com/imc/Network-Page.jpg)
>-- There are still a bunch of questions about how the profiles are 
>going to work.  What functions should we offer?  Is this page only a 
>place for users to present themselves and their interests to the 
>public, or will users also use their profile page as their own 
>personal launch page for the site, enabling them to manage the way 
>they view content?  Maybe we're talking about two different pages, 
>one private for the user him/herself and a different one for public 
>viewing.  For example, MySpace shoots you to your own page when you 
>login that gives you the opportunity to manage your information 
>(approve friend requests etc.) but you also have a public profile 
>page that the world can see.  This will be especially important for 
>organizations that sign up who will want a place on the site for 
>internal communication as well as a way to communicate with the public.
>-- In any case, we need to create an interesting profile form for 
>inviduals/organizations so they give interesting information.  I can 
>put that on my task list.
>-- add flexibility for user to manipulate profile page, both 
>formatting options (colors and fonts etc.) and ability to add feeds 
>and other personal information
>
>NEWS:
>(http://www.thunderwhip.com/imc/News-Page.jpg)
>-- Create main news page with big feature and blurbs
>
>KNOWLEDGE
>In this incarnation of the site we can just provide of a mock-up 
>description of what the Knowledge-base will be and how it will work.
>
>CONTENT SUBMISSION FORM
>-- I can add my usability suggestions from 
>http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/druapl-dev-status 
>to the task list
>-- Our layout works best with landscape-oriented photos at the top 
>of each page.  Could we only allow landscape-oriented photos as the 
>main photo for a submission?
>
>ACCOUNTS/ADMIN:
>-- I assume we already have various levels of logins.  I can login 
>to the site but don't have access to admin functions though 
>domain23.info/admin.  We should eventually figure out a transparent 
>process for determining who has admin access.
>-- In the My Account area we should explain the use of "file 
>browser" or not have it as an option
>-- Just curious, in my My Unread section I clicked "recents posts 
>across the whole site" and saw a zillion of them.  Are we already 
>being spammed?  If so, the site seems to be handling the spams 
>pretty well because they don't appear anywhere other than that list.
>
>I'm working on a solid explanation of our taxonomy as well as 
>explanatory help text for most of the options we offer site 
>visitors, such as most of the things on the submission page.
>
>Great work, site builders!!
>Jay