Re: trying to finish up

Posted by Patrick Dinnen on Mar 26, 2006; 2:16pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/trying-to-finish-up-tp374p382.html

On the maple leaf, I'm not a flag waving sort myself either. But the
thinking here was that without some indicator it's not at all apparent
that the group/site relates to Canadian data specifically. The leaf
seemed like a super quick and clear way of communicating that visually.

Personally I'm much more bothered by the use of the term 'Splash page'
than I am about using the flag ;-) But whatever people think.

Patrick

Michael Lenczner wrote:

> looks good.
>
> I would skip the maple leave, though.  seems . . . gratuitous, to a
> quebecer at least.  and it kinda looks like we might be "official",
> gov't funded or something.
>
> On 3/26/06, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>  :-)
>>
>>  someday someone will have to explain to be the politics of the s word!
>>
>>
>>
>>  Patrick Dinnen wrote:
>>  I agree that an initial page to explain a little about what the site/a
>> wiki is would be helpful (lets say landing page, rather than using the S
>> word with it's information-free connotations). Here's a 10 minute design
>> on how that might look:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=118104671&size=o
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> Michael Lenczner wrote:
>>
>>
>>  I know tracey just added some more sections to the site.
>>
>> on my side:
>>
>> 1) i think we should keep a splash page before the wiki. that way we
>> can at some point set up another cms if we want to.
>>
>> if we don't keep a splash page then people will link to
>> http://www.civicaccess.ca to go to the wiki. To put a blog in before
>> that a year later would mean breaking everyone's links to the wiki.
>>
>> so we should prevent http://www.civicaccess.ca from forwarding
>> automatically to the wiki.
>>
>> and 2) we should keep a splash page because many of the people who we
>> want to become participants of civicaccess have never seen a wiki
>> before and will be kinda shocked with how unprofessional it seems.
>> especially because it seems that we're going to have to "go live"
>> before we get a nicely organized wiki with lots of content.
>>
>> Steph - can you put a back a temporary splash page? and maybe you or
>> patrick or someone else can do a lightly designed splash page explain
>> civicaccess in french + english (link to suggested text below) with a
>> link to the wiki?
>>
>> http://www.civicaccess.ca/wiki/Launch/SplashPage (suggested
>> text)
>>
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