[Talk-gb-westmidlands] New Mappa Mercia website

[Brian Prangle]

Hi Rob

Well done on progressing the website. I'm not there this month so here's my
input:

I think your idea of not having a map on the home page is a good one and I
like the idea of some photos of personalities too!
I'm happy to go along with any design for the pages and site you
collectively arrive at - the German OSM site might be worth emulating.
I'm willing to produce/edit any text you need
I'm willing to test navigation/usability  - as I'm sure everyone else will
Prominence to my heritage map in the maps section ;-)
Blog stats
Blog access details so I can start blogging again!

Regards

Brian


On 3 December 2013 22:32, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, time to re-focus my efforts on the Mappa Mercia website. The current
> version of the site is online at http://mappa-mercia.org/ . And the
> proposed new version is in development at http://mappa.stulester.co.uk/
>
>  Looking at the new design again (with SOTM now behind us) I now think we
> are being too cautious, not changing enough. I suggest we refocus on the
> community and potential things that the Mappa Mercia can work on (e.g. with
> a local council, charity or organisation). So I suggest that we:
>
>
>    1.
>
>    Make the landing page the “About” page but update it to include a
>    carousel of images of the local members, SOTM, GPS surveying and a map
>    render.
>    2.
>
>    Remove the “The Maps” page altogether keeping just the drop down menu.
>    If wordpress insists we have a link here then we can just redirect it to
>    the first map in the list.
>    3.
>
>    Each map page includes a large map with some text below it. I'm hoping
>    to get a button on there that opens each map in full screen.
>    4.
>
>    Rename “News” to “Blog” as previously discussed.
>    5.
>
>    Make the “Projects” page our active way of organising projects/current
>    mapping tasks. For now this can start with a list of current projects with
>    links out to the relevant page on the OSM wiki
>
> I will be around Thursday evening at our monthly meet-up so we can look
> through things then. I would also welcome support from outside our normal
> group, so if you have any web/wordpress skills and can spare a few minutes
> to help us out, please do get in contact.
>
> Thoughts welcome.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rob
>
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