From: "Dustin Turner" To: "'JOYCE STANEK'" Subject: RE: Rough Draft Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:15:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: I think we are clear on how the navigation and the "member directory" button works. Also I think I have an idea for the situation with creating a separate page for each business. The way the program works is you enter only what info about the business that you want. If this makes sense, it would probably work out that everyone should have their contact info entered, but the paying customers could have an entire write up and description. Going along with that idea, it is not mandatory that everyone has a link to their web page, but if they wanted to pay for one, you could include it. As far as clicking their link and it taking you out of the chambers web page, I can look into the program, but it may be possible to have the business pages open up in a separate window; this way people using your site wouldn't be completely turned away when they decide to browse a businesses web page. Dustin -----Original Message----- From: JOYCE STANEK [mailto:stanekjc@mail.nhuron.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:36 AM To: dustin@pointblankpro.com Subject: RE: Rough Draft Dustin, Thanks for clearing that up. I thought that maybe that was how ilt was set up, but just wanted to be sure. It was hard to tell with just two pages to look at. So - The scenario is: Click on "member directory" on the home page. that takes you to a page that lists the "categories" (lodging, restaurants, etc.). Then click on a category and it takes you to a list of all of the businesses in that category. Click on a business name, and it goes to a page for that business. Yes, that is basically what we had in mind. One of the things that the chamber hoped to do was generate a little bit of money by offering some "extras" on the web site. One of those would be the individual page that you created on a specific business. Every member would have their name, address, phone included in their category. But clicking on their business to go to a page with extra information would be an extra small fee. Another charge was going to be to put a link to the website of a business. (That in itself presents its own problems, in that you are letting people click totally out of your own website, but that is a different issue.) Thanks! Joyce >>> "Dustin Turner" 03/07/05 6:01 PM >>> Hi Joyce, When the button "Member Directory" is clicked it will bring them into the phpMyDirectory program which is what I sent you a link to. The first thing that will be displayed once in the program is a list of categories (lodging, dining, entertainment, etc...) from there they will choose a category and be presented with all the business in that category and will be able to get info on those businesses. I think this goes along with what you were saying. I hope that cleared up the navigation... if that is not going to work let me know and we can work on figuring something out. I did send the home page to Casey and he liked it a lot, he said he was going to get some other opinions but would get back to me soon. Thank you, Dustin -----Original Message----- From: JOYCE STANEK [mailto:stanekjc@mail.nhuron.org] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:40 PM To: dustin@pointblankpro.com Subject: Re: Rough Draft Dustin, I like the home page. I do have a question about what is called "Member Directory" which would be a link on the home page. Is clicking on that link going to take people to a list of members? A list of categories (lodging, restaurants, etc.)? Or is if just going to be like the page you sent me with the link? If that is the case - I'm not so sure if that is going to work well. Most people who go to the site are not going to know the "names" of the businesses they want to check out. If they are interested in looking for a place to stay - they want to be able to click on "lodging" and get a list of all of the places to stay. Then they can click on an individual business to get more information. Have you sent the home page to Casey yet? We were supposed to have a chamber of commerce meeting tonight, but the weather turned bad a few hours ago, so they've re-scheduled it. thanks, Joyce >>> "Dustin Turner" 03/07/05 1:09 PM >>> Hello, Just thought I would let you know I'm back in town and I have something put together in rough form for you to take a look at. First off, is the attached screen shot of the home page that I have put together. I tried to follow your criteria as close as possible and think I have come up with an attractive page. I wasn't able to create the navigation links exactly as you had planned but I think you will see why, once I show you how the software works. So check out this screen shot, it is just an image, and not a functional page by any means. The white area in the center is where the main content will be. Having a boxed in theme like this is a great way to keep a clean look, but on the other hand it doesn't allow for a great deal of content since it won't be scrollable. My idea is to use this template for the home, about us, contact us, visitors guide (which I believe we talked about being a downloadable pdf), and the photo gallery (which I would almost recommend a slide show for). The rest of the site will lie within the software that we purchased. All of the business directory as well as the events calendar will be arranged within the software. I have a very watered down demo of the software up and running for you to take a look at. I put in a business just so you can see how it will work. It is completely uncustomized and looks somewhat bland as of now; all of this will tie in with the theme of the rest of the site later on. Here is a link to the demo http://d9648335.m111.mywebsitehosting.net/listings/ I just want to make sure you are aware that using this software is basically going to create 2 areas of the site, one for general info and the other for the business directory and events, but both will link back and forth to one another with ease. Again, this is a very rough mock up, and if you don't like the direction it is heading in, I have no problem going back to the drawing board for the overall theme of things. Just let me know your honest opinion, and if you like where we are headed I can get the final quote out to you for you to sign off on and we can start filling the site up with content. I know I probably just dropped a lot of information on you, and its possible I left something out so if you have any questions or concerns at all, please feel free to contact me. Thank you, Dustin Turner Point Blank Productions