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Haia Jonathan,<br>
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Thanks for doing this<br>
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It looks good.<br>
Looking forward to being able to navigation around the site.<br>
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I generallly agree owith what Jody has said. <br>
Especially the bit about it seeming too action heavy.<br>
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I don't know how easy it is to portray it but something about education
with maybe a link/ tab to some educational files/ docs would be good.<br>
. <br>
I am also thinking that something re movement building, with a
resources section would be good, too<br>
<br>
Have you asked us (if you have sorry, been getting a very full inbox
recently) what we want from this new website or are you working to a
brief (if so, set by whom)<br>
<br>
bvgMoth<br>
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It is looking good. Nice template, well laid out. Very well said about
trusting designer to do their job. It would be nice if we could adopt
this as a ethos on this list.<br>
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Still I have some comments in regards to content and hierarchy of
information. The camp has FOUR aims, action being one - but education,
sustainable living, and movement building are the other three. The
content on this homepage is very heavily action focused and I am
concerned that is is not grounded with the other three aims. If I were
new to CC when I visited this site I would want immediately to know
WHY? - and there is no link to this section. It is all action news.<br>
<br>
Here are specific issues:<br>
<ul>
<li>A lack of a space for 'resources' - or 'background information'.
Everything is very news / blog oriented. We develop quite a lot a
content and it would be good if we could have an area researchers could
go to access information. <br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Nothing to point people to an 'about' page. - For total newcomers
they want our mission statement, how we do our thing, etc.<br>
</li>
</ul>
In regards to design:<br>
<ul>
<li>I think you need to be a little careful about putting unnecessary
information on the homepage - which is making a bit more visual clutter
than necessary. Make sure everything on the homepage especially serves
a purpose. Are the dates for the blogs really necessary there? Could
they be smaller or lighter or gone ideally.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Good work.<br>
<br>
Jody<br>
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<a href="http://www.eco-labs.org">www.eco-labs.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.teach-in.co.uk">www.teach-in.co.uk</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/31 Jonathan Leighton <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:j@jonathanleighton.com">j@jonathanleighton.com</a>></span><br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi
there,<br>
<br>
A concept design has been completed for our new website. Your feedback<br>
is sought!<br>
<br>
DEADLINE: 5 PM, Tuesday 4th August<br>
<br>
Please bear in mind that we are hoping to launch the new website in 2<br>
weeks (oh god!) Thus, a block to this general concept basically means we<br>
won't be able to do that.<br>
<br>
When the website group met to discuss this design brief, we explicitly<br>
agreed that implementing feedback is at the discretion of the designers.<br>
It's important that we trust our designers to do their job :)<br>
<br>
But with that aside, please take a look at the designs and let loose<br>
with your comments!<br>
<br>
Home: <a href="http://dump.jonathanleighton.com/climate_camp_home.png"
target="_blank">http://dump.jonathanleighton.com/climate_camp_home.png</a><br>
Blog page: <a
href="http://dump.jonathanleighton.com/climate_camp_blog.png"
target="_blank">http://dump.jonathanleighton.com/climate_camp_blog.png</a><br>
<br>
Once the concept is agreed, the designers will work on mockups for other<br>
specific sections (in addition to the blog).<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Jonx<br>
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