Website Redesign/2011/Plans

Status
The redesign is completed. See:
 * Website_Redesign/2011/Results for a before & after view of the design
 * The Git repository of the code
 * The design live on our website

The Wordpress theme can be deployed on a wide range of OKFN websites in our blogfarm, and is based on a customised fork of Twitter Bootstrap with BuddyPress support. The early mockups from Nick Mason are available for posterity.

Early Plan: "What We Need"

 * social media integration more prominent (twitter, facebook, RSS feed email updates)


 * clear, simple homepage (we like the possibility of just having 3 categories of choice so is clear for people, with a mission statement above that (ie the open knowledge foundation is ______.) <-- like the visualizing.org idea (simple carousel addition is nice too).


 * the 3 categories we'd like on front page (much like visualizing.org):
 * What we do (Featured Events, Board, About, Projects, Our Network)
 * Get Involved (Future Events, Community, Working Groups, Volunteer)
 * How we can help you (Consultancy services, Coding, Open Data Manual, OKF Manual)
 * we also need the OKFN blog to be done (different conversation/needs here, but we'd like the mainframe to be consistent w other OKFN looks)


 * on other OKFN pages, we'd like to keep the breadcrumb url/menus under those 3 categories but perhaps w a dropdown effect for more complex page categories under each heading.