[Sigia-l] Lake Forest Open Lands site redesign

[Sean Lawrence]

It's a really elegant looking site.  What lead you to make join open
lands a op level nav element rather than under say about open lands or
give to open lands?  I personally would have made the master calendar a
click-to page rather than opening a new window.

I really like how you've tied in the quotes with the content.

Did you do any user testing on the site map metaphor you've employed?  I
like the simplicity of the folder analogy and it would initially seem to
be intuitively familiar to most users but it tends to scroll a bit even
on 1600x1200 res.

How is the content managed?  I would guess it's using a package and not
a manual update.

As for the Print, Save to, and Email elements in the articles/news
entries, I would have labeled the alt tags associated with the images
both for clarification and accessibility.

Overall, I think this is really an effective, attractive site with good
integration of navigation and content.  I'm thinking some of the things
I've mentioned are part of ongoing development and hence will be
instituted in 'Phase 2'.

Cheers,

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Betsy Martens
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:40 PM
To: Sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Lake Forest Open Lands site redesign

Greetings all,

I've been lurking on this list for some time now; it's been awhile since
I've posted anything, but I've been busy participating in a site
redesign
process and we've just launched.

This was an interesting engagement, with me sitting on the client side,
initially as content provider and content manager but eventually
stepping
into the IA role -- a very familiar one for me -- to impact structure
and
navigation. Very interesting to be client and not vendor!

I'd love to hear your comments on the site in general, particularly the
UI,
the nav, etc. Budgetary and scheduling constraints meant that we had to
make
numerous compromises, and we're still finishing off some of the more
interactive pieces, but there's always Phase 2, so please offer up
comments
whether positive or negative.

http://www.lfola.org

Thanks!


Betsy Martens

---wearing this hat---
Communications Coordinator
Lake Forest Open Lands Association
218 Deerpath Road
Lake Forest, IL


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