| Our ramblings about technology and anything else that strikes our fancy |
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- Oct. 20th, 2009: Getting near launch, making some layout
changes and minor cosmetic changes, plus a whole lotta quality
control check. Now we need to compare old website to new and
make sure we didn't miss something important! when we go live,
we'll clear out this pre-launch blog and start our real blog - about
issues near and dear to us, such as all things technology, the
environment, green technology, global warming, education of our
youth, imparting good ethics principles on our kids, etc.
- Oct. 16th, 2009: As we prepare for the launch of our new
website design, we are pondering exactly what to jettison from the
old website, and what to keep. We want to keep things simple,
and make it easy for netizens to find the information they need, so
the home page and the scrollbox will be the primary place to put the
most important information. I think we'll add a poll so that folks
can vote. The primary design elements will be:
- Four primary pages (Home, About Us, Contact Us, and Blog).
These will be accessible from any page using either the top
horizontal menu or the bottom horizontal menu
- Additional specific content pages (Security Checklist,
Recommendations, & Fix-it Toolbox). These will be accessible
from any page using the menu under Items of Interest on the
right.
- What's your Issue? A changing issue page that's at the
bottom of the Items of Interest menu (but still above the
scrolling news). This page will be a short treatise on a
hot item (first one up is the move to Windows 7). On that
page there will be a link to an archive page with the previous
"What's Your Issue?" papers.
- Each page will have the Items of interest menu plus the
scrolling text underneath. That scrolling area will have
any current nuggets of information about any technology aspect -
short and sweet stuff (anything bigger goes on the blog or as a
What's your issue).
- The home page's large content area will have a short bit at
the top that doesn't change (welcome, etc.), followed by
constantly changing "hot news" of the day/week/month - gleaned
from various sources and publications.
- We'll try to include images of products or vendors we have
reviewed (and recommend!), and may include a few other widgets
or objects here and there, not continually, but whenever the
need arises:
- MicroPolls
- Event promotion
- Countdowns
- Whatever else we find of interest
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