[Nfb-web] NFBIL Web Site Pilot

Sat Feb 16 18:57:38 CST 2008

I hope you don't follow the national web site standard, at least not in 
content arrangement.  I find it difficult to locate information that used to 
be more easily accessible directly from the main page.--Joe Orozco

"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."--Senator 
John McCain
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:11 PM
Subject: [Nfb-web] NFBIL Web Site Pilot

> 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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