new pages!

One of the 2 main rewritten sections is nearing completion. Here is the old "Education and Resources" page, which have renamed "Komen in our Community": it needs the links still, and more graphics, but already it think it looks tighter and more action-oriented. I hope. I do hate the big "Give" button but Ramona won't let it go! The left nav will be redone still, and the links added in, but the meat of the page is there.


OLD:

Still to be done:

• Home page
• Sortable list of mammo providers (if possible in Convio, Jess says no)
• Map of providers--Google earth is a possibility, but I really don't like having to download anything to view it, and may want Mapquest instead--am investigating
• News--Jess is doing
  

Need to be edited, add links and navs:

• Materials--may reconfigure forms/main page
  
• Komen in our community
• Material request Form--few small changes needed
• Grant pages
  

Done:

• Informational resources

This whole process is taking longer than I had hoped, mostly due to the necessity of getting everyone's input. I will do a simple usability test next week before the pages are uploaded, and then go through the site with Ramona. I am aiming for done but not necessariy
live by next weekend. Woo!

new design!

I had a very productive meeting with Jess and we have hammered out the new Web design, at last!
The old top nav was:

* Home
* Race for the Cure
* Get Involved
* Donate
* Education & Outreach
* Survivors
* Grants
* Events & Photos
* Merchandise
* About Us

and ours will be:

* Home
* Race for the Cure
* Komen in our community
* What we fund
* Donate
* Get involved
* Survivors
* About Us

On the home page, the old left nav was:
Volunteer
Calendar
General FAQ
Donations
Breast Health
Merchandise

and ours is:
Need a mammogram?
Recently diagnosed
Breast Health
Order Materials
Volunteer
Calendar
FAQ
Merchandise


The Grants/Komen in the Community/What we fund/Education and outreach sections will be completely overhauled in this same kind of user-centered (or at least more so) design, so that it is more navigable by activity. I have begun altering the pages and hopefully the new pieces will all be up next weekend.

yet another meeting

I am meeting today with Jess Rosales, the Web admin for Komen Austin, to go over my page ideas and see how they fit into the present site. Jess is responsible for pretty much everything about the Web site, so hopefully i will be able to temper my stepping on her toes by offering to help her fix stuff. The National site has just been redesigned - and looks great! but apparently they've decided that everyone had broadband these days - so now a whole bunch of links on our page to theirs are dead. And their redirect just send you to their homepage, which sucks. I met again with Ramona to talk about where we're at and how best to approach Jess, and she pointed out that all these meetings pretty much reflect the real life process, at least in the Komen Austin world. Getting everyone on board, smoothing feathers, etc. So it is good preparation I guess!

I anticipate Jess will have lots to say about my scheme, and then I will get the final-ish versions of the pages done in Convio over the next week. I'll do some usability testing on them the week of Thanksgiving and then finish it all up the last week of the semester. This project is pretty much guaranteed to go on beyond that, as I get more feedback. In addition, although it is beyond the scope of my project, the site really needs a search function, also. Ramona has been good to me and I want to be sure I've done right by them and made this site as workable as possible.

Web page design begun

Well, with the race finally over (Nov 2) I will finally be able to spend some serious time on the Web pages. I've made test copies of the main pages in Convio, and have been playing with the HTML and the WYSIWYG functions to implement the changes I've discussed with Mary Moore. I think I'll need to understand a bit more about how Convio works to really use it effectively. I will schedule a meeting with Jess Rosales, the Web admin, who is largely responsible for everything on the site as it currently exists. I think she is likely to have some ideas, maybe save me some time, in laying it all out and making it look consistent with the rest of the site.