From blondie@phy.ucsf.edu Sun Oct 21 14:00:05 2001 Return-Path: Received: from phy.ucsf.edu (blondie@phy.ucsf.edu [128.218.64.200]) by mail2.thuntek.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9LK04P34816 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:00:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from blondie@phy.ucsf.edu) Received: from localhost (blondie@localhost) by phy.ucsf.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f9LJxwE18534; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:59:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Heather Read To: valor@global-dialog.org cc: Heather Read Subject: quickie outline of visual Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Hi Valerie, OK this is only the first framework for talking about how to start a more visual guided entry into topics and then forums. I was thinking of course we'd keep the Original web entry page with the planets in a circle-we might have to modify it so that it makes sense with the organization of pages according to "topic". Then once you click the "topics" you get a visual/text page like the example I give below which visually or in text lays out for the viewer all topics. I guess what I'm trying to do is make the whole entry into Forums/topics simple and visually guided. I hope this is of use! Talk to you later, Heather So I have a simple example in my public folder but note that is is just a visual with no subsequent layers-Have to get that code: www.keck.ucsf.edu/~blondie/layout.html We could have an image and text title for each topics. Here I have three example topics: Education, Global Policy, Ecology. We'd have to be creative on how we set it up to include all the GD topics. I thought we could combine spirituality, health/nutrition, religion into a big topic called "Mind/Body/Spirit" to avoid having to have an entry point that was offensive to anyone. We could just choose to have images for some of the primary topics on the initial layer and have other topics be off to side in "text" only. Then if you click on that topic you'd get a layer with images etc. The Logic flow would be as follows: 1. click "Topic Image" 2. unfolds a page with a text/small art combo: current events -top story gets an image link if possible history -image reference links? -folder icon policy -law/action icon art -current art relating to topic Forums 3. current events and policy are divided as you've done before into News/Action I would image you'd have a separate Forum for each topic.