Website Plans: Overview
Evolution at Large!
This planning area is under on-going development. It's going to take a while to document everything, so please return frequently to see what we've got in the pipeline.
We have many plans for the future of the NAWG website. This document is the starting point.
Introduction
There's a lot of information about the directions we're heading in with the website and what we're planning to do along the way.
Please read this starting document first, as we hope it will help to orient you. After that, there are several ways to navigate:
- Go to the end of this page to see the main topics. Further information can be found by clicking on the links there.
- List all the articles with topic plans.
Terminology
In these and many other documents, particularly the technical ones, we often use the term users. But what do we mean by users? In most contexts, a user can be any or all of:
- A casual visitor to the web site.
- A member of a writing group, or other NAWG affiliate.
- A NAWG administrator, committee member, or facilitator.
- A competitor in one or more of our writing competitions.
- A participant in one or more of our events.
Document Structure & Navigation
This section describes the overall structure of the documents that provide the information about our plans for the website.
The material is organised into topics and sub-topics. This hierarchy is reflected in the document titles, for example:
- Plans: Overview
- Plans: Features: Privacy & Security
The following main topics are covered:
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Overview – The starting point for documentation about our plans for the website.
- Introduction
- Terminology
- Document structure
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Strategy – Details of our strategy for developing the website.
- Evolution over revolution
- IT and joined-up data
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Your input – We want your help. This is your website; we value your ideas and feedback.
- What are we looking for?
- How to send us your ideas.
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Schedule – When things are going to happen. Time scales, as far as we are able to estimate them.
- Road map
- Time line
- Tasks list
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Participation – A website where you get to take part, rather than passively absorb information, will be more fun and productive. We have plans to make this happen.
- Communication
- Members-only areas
- Interaction
- Contribution
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Facilities – Plans for the website in terms of functionality, useful tools and other applications.
- Social media integration
- Directory of writing groups
- On-line competitions
- Link magazine
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Features – Plans for the behavioural and technical aspects of the site.
- Privacy & security
- People database
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Articles & editing
- Temporal content
- Markdown for content
- Automatic TOC generation
- PayPal integration
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Content – Plans for what articles, pages and other information to have on the site. Examples: news, information, events, competitions, products and services.
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Material
- Revamp "who is NAWG?" area
- Organisation
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Presentation – Plans for improvements and additions to the way the site appears, e.g. its layout, styling and navigation.
- Layout
- Style
- Navigation
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Management – Plans to improve the operational aspects of the site, i.e. the way it's run and maintained, and the way we respond to communications.
- Operations & procedures
- Who does what?
Some of the above titles are hyperlinks.
Click for more detailed documentation.
More will become links as things evolve.