WebsiteNavbarIdeas

Navigation Bar Ideas for Website

Various things from http://www.nss.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6

Ned Dodds 6/16/04

About Us
Community
AD ASTRA
Education
Space Authors (not Space Books)

Space Links
Space Tourism

Remove "Home" from the Home Page - it doesn't do anything useful up front.

Move "Join", "Renew", and "Donate" off the navbar and back to the top of the left column into buttons identical to "site search" in the "pillow" style seen so many other places. Our current "flat" style isn't exciting.

Arthur Smith ?

On the home page issue - I think it really has to be unique; there are 4 different types of content there that affect layout:

(1) Essentially static content, like the top graphic and lists of links in the navigation areas (about us, join/renew/donate, search, etc.)
(2) Official NSS content that changes frequently - the press releases and other changing items we want to link to.
(3) Official NSS content that we want to highlight for a period of time - upcoming meetings and conferences - perhaps changing once a month or so (Moon-Mars Blitz graphic right now, for example).
(4) Interesting, interactive stuff that may be changing daily - the "blog" links, space news items, etc (right hand column in index_test.html)

Probably only a limited version of (1) and perhaps (3) should appear on other site pages.

Jim Plaxco 6/20/04

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* Masthead *
* Navigation Bar to site sections *
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* S * C O N T E N T
* P * * E * S E C T I O N
* C *
* I *
* A *
* L *
* *
* N *
* A *
* V *
* *
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* Footer *
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The "Special Nav" section should contain our high value links, like the upcoming conferences and join/renew/donate icons.

Arthur Smith 8/16/04

Main navigation bar topics:

NSS (includes link back to home page)

-- history, governance, committees, chapter system (rules etc.), contacts

ACTION

-- Membership in NSS, chapters, forums, conferences, letters from members, petitions, alert lists, MyNSS etc.

INFORMATION

-- Education, Ad Astra, press releases and other news, space medicine site, NOR, Links, Books, (Store)

POLICY

-- links to statements, info about govt. programs, missions, legislative activities in US and other countries, Aldridge Commission report, testimony

ECONOMY

-- NSS fund raising, activities in support of commercial efforts, x prize, tourism, satellite activities, etc.

FUTURE

-- road map, new technologies and applications: space elevator, space solar power, moon and mars bases, orbital colonies, etc.

It doesn't hurt for the same section to be under more than one of these headings, but the ideal classification minimizes the need for that, while keeping to just 5 or 6 top level categories.

Gary Barnhard - from 2004 ISDC

Website Implementation

The sectors of the site are . . .
1. What is NSS? - Purpose: Draw for New Visitors
a. Building NSS Community
b. Increasing Membership
c. Portray NSS Vision of Future
d. Attract New/Repeat Visitors
e. Education of Public & Teachers
f. Sell NSS Goals & Roadmap
g. Recognized Source of Space Information
h. Get them involved and keep them involved
i. Communication between members

2. What is a Spacefaring Society? - Recognized Source of information
a. Building NSS Community
b. Increasing Membership
c. Portray NSS Vision of Future
d. Attract New/Repeat Visitors
e. Education of Public & Teachers
f. Sell NSS Goals & Roadmap
g. Recognized Source of Space Information
h. Get them involved and keep them involved
i. Communication between members

3. What NSS is doing - Environment to Manage & Facilitate discussions
a. Building NSS Community
b. Increasing Membership
c. Portray NSS Vision of Future
d. Attract New/Repeat Visitors
e. Education of Public & Teachers
f. Sell NSS Goals & Roadmap
g. Recognized Source of Space Information
h. Get them involved and keep them involved
i. Communication between members

Each sector of the site has . . .
1. Structure
2. Content
3. Discussion

Internet Development Team - Ronnie as Chair
Structure of NSS Organizational Site
Policy statements
Papers on the subject
Do we do it one sector at a time . . .
Forward references if we have

Building NSS Community
Increasing Membership
Portray NSS Vision of Future
Attract New/Repeat Vistors
Education of Public & Teachers
Sell NSS Goals & Roadmp
Recognized Source of Space Information
Get them involved and keep them involved
Communication between members