EMSWebsite Plan

Pages

(In no particular order, see Navigation for how we might present, link and organize them) Status: merely my (Sam's) proposal. Edit at will.

Updated status: Updates to website by Marie, read below for changes and comments.

Home

• EMS in a nutshell - keep it brief and visual. [photo slider added, images currently need resizing]
• Call out how to find us, contact us, upcoming events [info can currently be found on top and side bar navigation]
• Recent posts list [need to create "front page" category to highlight blogs, especially ones with pictures]

About Us

• Brief mission statement, concise description of the space and organization, what we offer [brief description rewritten, please review/discuss/revise if needed]
• EMS in the press, event write ups, etc. "testimonials"
• Cross-link contact/find us details [cross-linking in progress]
• Press/Media Resources
• About the space: resources, equipment, logistics
• (call to action - how to find out more, get involved, help out) [included in subsection "Membership & Events", draft in progress]
• Visit us subsection containing address, map and contact info

Contact [contact form added under about us menu]

• twitter, facebook, g+, IRC, [top bar and community subsection]
• Mailing list, [community subsection]
• phone, board email, [about us menu in visit us subsection, contact board crosslinked liberally throughout entire website]
• space address, [top bar and about us menu in visit us subsection]
• maps and directions [need improved directions]

Get Involved

• Membership details - levels of membership, how to join [membership description rewritten, please review/discuss/revise if needed]
• Join our community. Sign up for newletter, join active discussion in the mailing list, drop by on one of our open hack nights [community subsection created]
• Open hack nights [info crosslinked or in progress]
• (call to action - how to join, sign up for newsletter, check upcoming events) [info crosslinked or in progress]

Support Us/Help Wanted (under Get Involved?)

• How can you help EMS?
• Mentors wanted: classes, informal instruction [Educate menu - call out for local instructors]
• Volunteering: tasks we would appreciate help with
• Stuff: donating unwanted tools, materials, devices: what we like, (and where to take stuff we dont want), who and how to contact us regarding donations [Donate section rewritten, please review/discuss/revise. Our wish list needs updating]
• Paypal, tipjoy etc. donations [section rewritten]
• Amazon affiliate? Other referral schemes
• Sponsorship opportunities: Funding drives for x, y, z
• "Friend of EMS" donor (for one-off and regular donations)

Friends of EMS (possibly under About Us)

• List out sponsors, any preferred vendors, partner/sister organizations like Mecca, Thinkersmith, Science Factory
• (call to action - how to get yourself listed here - link to contact/sponsorship page)
• (also plug the newsletter for people that might want to consider sponsoring us later)

Blog (what to call this, its EMS news, projects, announcements, etc.)

• Chronological listing of posts, truncated with permalinks to full post [posts truncated]
• Categories/tags [some categories have been created, need tags]
• Galleries/Youtube etc. links

Navigation

We should have a persistent top navigation bar that is present on all pages, as well as a footer bar for meta info, login and other member and admin links

Status: merely my (Sam's) proposal. Edit at will. Names/labels are WIP and placeholder. We can bike-shed about this at our leisure. Note that we should try and keep existing URLs mapping to an equivalent page where it makes sense - the actual URLs should change rarely and only when necessary.

Top, Global Navigation

• Home
• About Us
• Get Involved
• Support EMS
• Blog

We might want to do a tooltip or sub-navigation thing to help people discover sub-sections and pages. Also, lets cross-link liberally in the text of each page where appropriate.

Footer

• Copyright info [included]
• Social links, Newsletter signup [social links are at top bar]
• Contact Us - once more for the hell of it
• Login, Site Admin Links (conditional on login) [currently on sidebar]

Contextual Navigation

Some pages will need a block of contextual links in a sidebar. For the blog it will be categories and recent/related posts. Where we've broken out a page/topic into sub-pages, we'll list and link those. Note that wordpress might struggle to deal with one page being a sub-page of more than one other page.. so perhaps a related-to relationship is a better way of modelling it. Or we could have "sub-pages" and "related pages" in a sidebar.