Re: Web Page Redesign

[Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com>]

John; A good beginning. I especially like the way the navigation system is set up. The true test of the website in the future will be whether people go to it for information about Irises. At present Several other internet sites do a better job informing about Iris. Our task as I see it is twofold. First making information easily accessible and what you have looks promising. Second to create interesting paths through the website that are colorful and captivating but also sell the vayager on the value of the society to them. The home page is a grest cover but writing the books that go inside will be the greater challenge. I hope the site develops with a consistant quality throughout. You have a good start.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John I Jones" <jijones@usjoneses.com>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:19:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [AISdiscuss] Web Page Redesign

Here is a redesigned home page,  with the drop-down menus working.

The links below are all the same design with a variety of center  
images, just so you can see how it looks with different images.

This is just the home page format. The format for sub pages will have  
a different look more suitable for displaying and navigating to more  
types of information. The items in the drop down menus are place  
holders and can be changed as we need them. That is actually the point.

We know what most of our content is going to be for now. We will  
never know what all our content is going to be in the future because  
it is going to change, and we will have to change and add links (and  
take some away) and content as we evolve over the years. The point is  
to have a design that is flexible enough to accommodate what we need  
to do. We can argue about the specific link titles, but the structure  
is there to allow us to move forward. Obviously the sub links are not  
active yet. Just roll over the items ("Growing Irises" etc.) to see  
the drop downs.

(There is a typo in the Photo Gallery pull down and I will fix that  
later)

http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-v2-image-A.html

http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-v2-image-B.html

http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-v2-image-C.html

http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-v2-image-D.html

http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-v2-image-E.html

http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-v2-image-F.html

http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-v2-image-G.html

http://www.mchalecreates.com/AIS/AIS-home-page-v2-image-H.html



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                          |  to indicate the edge of the known world.

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