[Nfb-web] NFBIL Web Site Pilot

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Ruth Ann and listers,

    You did a great job with the NFBIL demo site in X Catalyst. Since the
National Association of Guide Dog Users, (NAGDU)  is seriously considering
migrating its site in to X Catalyst I need to get busy and construct a
similar pilot Web Site for their board to review.

    Much of the NFB of Missouri's Web site was created with the lay-out of
the NFB National Site in mind. I like the idea of being able to include the
same content presently on the national site on state and division sites with
the edition of state/division specific information. For example in addition
to the content for members all ready present the membership area would
include online and downloadable member registration forms, newsletter
subscription information, and a calendar of events for each affiliate or
division.

    Likewise the laws and legislation area could in addition to the
information now on the national site would include the state white cane
laws, legislation and regulations related to international travel with guide
dogs and information related to specific public access issues.

    ?Doing this would allow visitors to the NAGDU Web site would not only
give them access to division-specific information, but would allow them to
access the wealth of information on our national Web site vastly increasing
the amount of available content and making the job of site migration much
easier and more tightly integrating our affiliate and division sites with
the NFB'S National Site. What you did with the NFBIL pilot site is exactly
what's been going around in my mind with respect to creating
second-generation affiliate and division Web sites. Keep up the good work.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ruth Anne Wheeler" <webmaster at nfbofillinois.org>
To: "'NFB Webmaster's List'" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Webmasters Seminar, Any Thoughts?


Hi Milt,
Well, NFBI has a very extensive website that I maintain.  I do all the code
for the pages and all the publication to the website.  My web committee will
check from time to time for broken links and pages in need of updating, or
think up some content to add to the site.  But the site is all my work, so I
have access to every file there.
Last Saturday evening after our dinner, I spent that time in the lab in the
institute on my laptop taking current items from the NFBI website at that
time, to see how I could format them into xCatalyst.  We'd already started
an "About Me" type page in the seminar, where I had used the NFBI vision
statement.
As I was formatting that up a little more, I tried to think of the pages
that "irritated" me the most in updating on the NFBI website.  The Committee
Appointments and the Announcements are the pages that I am getting regular
updates on, and often are my biggest pain to keep updated as plans change,
committees change, etc.  I thought those would be good choices, because I
could see how easy it would be to cut out text and paste in new text in the
editor.  So I decided that those pages - as of 2/9 -  were my best choices
for a test site to play around some more with xCatalyst.
After saving the pages in the editor, you have the option of viewing your
page from the link in the main console.  I did that, copied the URL, had my
husband see if he could use that URL to get to the page, go through it and
see what he thought.   He could get there in the staging area, and had a
couple suggestions from what I had formatted.  I made some more changes, had
him check again....and the URL still worked, so after getting back I
included it on the report to Patti and Ronza, my web committee and our
board.
Hope that helps!
Ruth Anne

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of milt.1818
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:20 AM
To: 'NFB Webmaster's List'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Webmasters Seminar, Any Thoughts?

Hello Ruth Ann,



Could you share with me how you got your web page
https://stage.nfb.org/nfb/main.asp to this point that you could have your
state president take a look at it and see what he thought?



Thanks,



Milton Taylor




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