Re: [GSAS-board] Web site stuff

[Shango Los <shango@shangolos.com>]

I'm going to skirt this a bit.  I agree that that the colors to the logo are
not to my liking either, however!, I don't really think it matters all that
much.  There are a lot of folks who have different tastes than I.  If we
were a for profit company I would put on my 15 years of brand strategy hat
and give a dissertation but <shrug> I'm just glad to have someone like Phil
willing to do the very important work of the flier creation.

I think it makes sense to put the sponsors on the front page or make a new
section called "sponsors."  If we want them to consider our needs I think it
makes sense to consider theirs.  I wouldn't want my sponsorship to be hidden
if I was making a donation, especially if it was a significant as some of
the folks do.


On 2/28/09 9:49 AM, "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Phil Lacefield Jr. wrote:
> 
>>>> We have ALWAYS provided a list of donor companies on the website after the
>>>> auction -- kept on for a whole year.  In fact, there's a list right now
>>>> showing all the donors of last year.  Take a look.  Really.  Red Sea is
>>>> even on there.  It's been on there since last year.
>> 
>> Okay, well, where is it?  I've clicked on every link on the main page, and I
>> don't see any mention of Red Sea, sponsors, auctions or anything else.  That
>> kind of info, if not in banner form, should be really prominent, I'd think.
> 
> It's on the main page.  It's currently about 3 or 4 stories down in the
> "Latest News" section.
> 
>>>> cluttery banner ads that we are OBLIGATED to display due to a purchase
>>>> agreement, and pointless link exchanges with any club that asks us, etc.
>> 
>> What is it about link exchanges you don't like?  I'm not being critical, I
>> just don't get it.  I mean, we're a club with, what, under 100 members?  Why
>> would we not want to share a link to our club with other clubs, and share
>> their links with our members?  If there's some precedent for this, or some
>> reason we don't want to, I'm all ears...
> 
> POINTLESS link exchanges clutter up the main page.  They have to be
> maintained.  They go out of date.  They serve no purpose to our members.
> There are other pages of pointless links out there.  There are lists of
> national clubs.  Why duplicate the effort?
> 
> DIRECTED links, such as to other clubs nearby, local events, etc, are
> helpful.  And there's not so many that the useful stuff gets lost in the
> mess.
> 
> Don't get me wrong -- I like the idea of having a separate page of auction
> sponsor graphics and links -- so long as it's on its own page and doesn't
> clutter the alread-too-cluttered main page.
> 
>>>> I'll tell you now, if that new logo ends up on it, I quit.  Otherwise, have
>>>> a blast!
>> 
>> What, the one with the colors and extra bits I put in?  You don't like
>> it??  This makes Log Boy sad :-( Seriously, I don't want you to quit the
>> club over such a silly thing, tell me what you don't like and I'll
>> change it...
> 
> In my opinion, it's too busy with the added elements, and the blue/green
> color scheme looks garish.
> 
> I'm biased, of course, as I spent some time researching local native art
> for the artist who did it.  Part of the reason we changed it "back then"
> was that the predecessor was too busy.
> 
> 
>> I'm more than happy to do the job - not like I haven't done websites
>> before, they just take time to manage, as you well know - but I really
>> don't want you quitting over the designs I use, or if I put up the wrong
>> logo or something.  Erik, you're a valuable member of this group, and I
>> for one don't want to be responsible for chasing you away!
> 
> I beleive that the site needs a major design overhaul, possibly splitting
> out things into more pages rather than using the same page.  It needs to
> be more navigable; one neeeds to be able to easily read the current news
> items, find out how to join, how to sign up for the e-mail lists, learn
> about BAP, and get to the sponsor list (as you point out) wihtout having
> to spend an hour poking around on that page.  I think the small sample
> articles should probably go, as they're now 10 years old.  The blue
> background is too dark to read the text easily.
> 
> I would be tickled pink if you wanted to have a go at fixing some of this
> and giving it a new look!!  I just don't like the logo changes. :P
> 
>    - Erik
> 
> PS: If you are serious, I can give you ssh access to update the files.




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