Basic Joomla Site

These are wireframe for the basic Joomla site for the Resilient Community Construction Set (RCCS) project website GVCS. The most recent version is at the top of the version of the wireframes is at the top of the list under the architecture section.

Name

The name and URL for the website is still undecided.

Architecture

Wireframes

Version.92 File:FactoreFarmv1.2.pdf

Version .91 File:FactoreFarmv1.1.pdf

Top Level Pages

Welcome - Home page that delivers introductory messages to the visitor, top news stories and a variety of ways to connect to and support the project.

Our Work - The static vision and philosophy behind the project.

Projects - Dynamic information about the projects within the RCCS including status information about all and each project as well as links to go deeper.

About - Answers the who, what, when, where and why of the project with static information

Blogs - General updates about the status of the RCCS as a whole as well as updates for each project (labeled via category)

Open Ecology Network - an ever present menu in the header that links to Open Ecology Resources that other websites and initiatives share such as a the wiki, store, forums, community site and contact information. These resources are hosted on openecology.org.

Roles

The new website requires people to fulfill a number of roles when it comes to producing and organizing content.

Monthly Newsletter summarizes the RCCS's progress, highlights openecology community news from the wiki, open pario, etc, digest of blog entries created during the month and a monthly wrap up video by Marcin (5 minutes.)

Homepage video - introduces people to the project

Vision video - explains the vision of 'evolve to freedom'

Project video - it would be great if every project had a 1-3 minute video

Project News - we need people to writing project updates that include how-to information as part of the open development process

Social Media - social media needs to be posted