need to work out an overall philosophy to the design of our website. initial ideas to fulfill on multiple intentions below. ok to be phased rollout.

possible resource: Web Design for the Social Benefit Sector

Components

• about us (now DanceLabs)
• Photos
• orbs (aka. DancersDatabase)
• calendar
• videos (see VideoIntroduction)
• news
• discussion
• knowledge base
• ContactUs

volunteer-based view

• Pech's design

fun/learning/kid-based view

• intent: create a fun learning opportunity for kids to interact on the Internet. An example of independent activity is learning about the history of salsa.

action/use case-centric view

• reviewed Overview Map for completeness
  • sanook - listen
  • intro - learn, enroll
  • team - share (communication), facilitate (bio)
  • production - connect (schedule), produce
  • design - design
  • kids - register
  • missing
    • finance - give
    • foundation - support

public vs internal view

• staff & volunteers: Intranet

community-centric view

• website contribution is community collaboration
  • production - workshop schedule, project management systems
  • design - cirriculum descriptions, experiment schedule, collaboration (read: wiki & discussion) (Trac)
  • finance - budget worksheets
  • foundation - website (portal), office (directions), resource management systems (?)
  • kids - roster, registration lists
  • team - collaboration, shares (communication)
  • intro - vision, pictures, flyers, news, discussions (new)
  • sanook - video, discussion (possibility)