WebsiteExistingDesign

Existing design of the NSS website

• Consistent header - with graphic (permanent) nav bar links

• Left side bar (home page) - miscellaneous long-term highlighted links: donations or outbound

• Right side bar (home page) - short-term highlighted links, "news"

• Center column (home page) - NSS news

• Consistent footer - NSS contact info

• Most other pages - central content in a 600-pixel-width table, no left or right side bars.

Header nav bar has following:

    Home     About Us     Join / Renew     Donate     News     Ad Astra     Chapters     Community     Education     Space Links     Legislative     Space Tourism     Space Books     Space Store  

Existing content areas

• Home page and News area

• "About us", volunteering, etc.

• Membership/join/renew/donate - https mostly

• Ad Astra (at space.com)

• Chapters information and chapter websites

• ISDC's (and other conferences?)

• Awards and scholarships

• Committee information - chapters committee, policy committee, others not online?

• Road map

• links to other organizations etc.

• Blogs - mission/space commerce/chapter news/letters/petitions

• legislative stuff

• books (reviews supposedly?)

• bulletin board - phpbb

• calendar (offsite)

• paperwork... (chapter forms offsite)

• wiki (xisp.net)

• projects... ?