[Imc-web] [IMC] ucimc.org website updates

Wed Oct 6 12:40:52 CDT 2010

I know CSS and HTML but cannot lay claim to any design skills. I took web
design this summer and our  final project was a simple library website -
http://media.sunahsuh.com/mclean/mclean-draft.html

I can try to bring other GSLIS kids with web design skills into the fold but
other than spamming my class list I don't really have a way of doing that.

Best,
Eric Phetteplace
Graduate Assistant
Reference, Research, and Government Information (
http://www.library.illinois.edu/rex/)
Library Assessment Working Group (
http://www.library.illinois.edu/assessment/)
-
Graduate Studies in Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cell: (603)325-0018

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your input Austin. I agree that we need a restructuring of
> content and definitely a facelift.
>
> I think that what would be helpful is to get others involved in this.
> Danielle, you replied that the web group had done some work on ideas for a
> redesign.  Can you and/or Austin work with me to reconvene this group or at
> least re-summarize the ideas that were generated from this past discussion?
>
> We can get an intern or whomever involved if we have someone with the right
> skills. We need a person with both coding and design skills if possible, and
> someone who is willing to both learn and work independently.
>
> I'm all for more color and better functionality. My tech work in the past 2
> months has been focused on trying to pick up where JOsh left off and
> maintain, which isn't always an easy task. I'm glad he's still involved
> remotely. Anyway, here's one theme I was working on. Let me know what you
> think..
>
> -Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Austin McCann <austinmccann at ucimc.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris et al,
>>
>> I'm happy to hear that we're working on revising the website. I was going
>> to snoop around town to find somebody willing to donate that service to us.
>> I really want to be a part of this conversation, but I occupied Tuesdays at
>> that time. So here are my thoughts:
>>
>>    - I think that the our relationship to the IndyMedia "movement" (or
>>    what is left of it) is overstated by our website, which currently functions
>>    as (essentially) a leftist news feed, with some sub-pages about the rest of
>>    our work. I think any organization's website needs to *reflect* the
>>    work done by the organization; right now, the website is itself one of our
>>    projects, i.e. a news feed. When I tell someone I work at the IMC and send
>>    the website to them, they have no clue that we run a diverse 30,000 sq. ft.
>>    Community Media & Arts Center.
>>    - I would personally advocate making what is now our main interface
>>    (i.e. [again] news feed) a separate sub-page, and have the new main
>>    interface represent our various projects. Our news feed is *not *more
>>    important than, say, Books to Prisoners, or our tech work, or ODDmusic.
>>    - We're a *colorful *organization. We need *color*. Maybe some photos
>>    of kids making art or something, but definitely not the dreary aesthetic of
>>    the 1990s IMC movement.
>>
>> What do you think? Does that make sense?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Austin
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The Tech group is moving forward with some great changes to the UCIMC
>>> website and this email is both an update and a call for contribution!
>>> Please reply if you have any questions or comments.
>>> *
>>> Calendars, Events, etc.*
>>> Last spring we completely re-worked our calendar of events and have just
>>> implemented some additions to the site re: calendars.
>>>
>>> *Separate "Community Calendar" and "UCIMC Calendar" Events
>>> *
>>>
>>>    - With so many events happening at UCIMC, and interest in promoting
>>>    other community events, we've separated our events and community events into
>>>    two separate calendars.
>>>    - Under the *Publish*! menu, you'll see two new menu items: *Submit a
>>>    UCIMC Event  *and *Submit a Community Event*. This is pretty
>>>    straightforward, but basically a UCIMC Event is happening at UCIMC and a
>>>    Community Event is happening somewhere else.
>>>    - UCIMC Events are not published immediately, but are reviewed by the
>>>    Shows group who confirms availability, contracts, and deposits with the
>>>    requesting person or group prior to publishing.
>>>    - Community Events can be published by anyone, but a CAPTCHA (those
>>>    little boxes that make you type in the letters in an image..) is required
>>>    before publishing.
>>>
>>> *What about publishing a news story with the Date/Time of Event "scope"?
>>> *
>>>
>>>    - Community Events effectively replace the way we used to submit
>>>    one-off news stories with "event" information
>>>    - The vast majority of news stories are not associated with future
>>>    events, and it's advantageous to separate these events from regular news
>>>    stories too.
>>>       - Community members can now submit an event and see it on our
>>>       community calendar, and it's not lost in a list of news stories.
>>>       - We can list "Upcoming Events" in true chronological order,
>>>       provide an RSS feed of events, and in the future (next steps) bring in
>>>       events from other organizations via RSS feeds, creating a robust collection
>>>       of events happening in this region from a number of organizations in the
>>>       community.
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Lastly, the *Upcoming Events* on the top of the front page, and in
>>>    the right sidebar on interior pages, *now lists both upcoming UCIMC
>>>    events and Community Events in chronological order.*
>>>
>>> *Site redesign*
>>> We're getting ready to start a new theme design for the UCIMC.org site.
>>> If you have input into this, reply to this email or come to a tech group
>>> meeting, Tuesdays at 6pm.
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Austin McCann, Development Adviser
>> Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
>> Digital Arts Service Corps <http://www.digitalartscorps.org>
>> 202 S. Broadway Ave.
>> Urbana, IL 61801
>> austinmccann[at]ucimc[dot]org
>>
>>
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