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Now the Revolution has a lot of ideas and sections. For the next two days we will organize the content and create a site map.

The Internet is a medium for communication. It does not function like a telephone, newspaper, TV, or brochure. It acts differently than other mediums. People interact with a website. Designing a website that functions like a book, is a waste of its capabilities. People need to interact with buttons, links, media, we are looking to create an interactive experience for the user.

Over the next two days we will begin to diagram the website and organize the website. First we will do a normal OUTLINE of the site. We’re shooting for 4-7 main topics. Less and the layout will be difficult, any more and sections will be sparse in overall content. Then we’ll move onto the site map. This will show EVERY PAGE of the site. Every sub-section, sub-sub-section, every database, and every page will be represented.

A site map is similar to a “flow chart” Basically, a site map is the view of the website from 30,000 feet. We will builf a site map. A site map is a visual legend of our organized site. It is a “map” because it will be keyed off of by everyone throughout production. To build a site map you use boxes and arrows which I will explain later. To build my site map quickly I’ll be using:

http://www.inspiration.com/

If you want you can download the free trial and create one yourself.
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Alright, so all this is great but how do you help?

- Give creative names to each major section. (Ex. The "Fan Network" section title)
- Suggest a re-organization of a topic (Ex. If you think having a "submit" in multiple sections is redundant.)
- Expand on topics that you feel are too broad (Ex. A developer's subpage where each developer gets there own page.)
- Recomend new topics entirley.

- Suggest features. (If you think that a member's box should be on certain pages, name that you want a "member's box" and then on what pages, if not all of them.)

Alright, begin!

Revolution Website

I. For the Game Section:
A-1. About BG&E (Place this here to give an overall summary of the Video game and why this site was created or maybe just the Summary of the Game by itself.)

A. Download(Could be between Screenshots and Purchase. After they go looking through all the info in Chronological order, then they can decide whether they want to download the demo or not.)

This post has been edited by Secundo on Feb 10 2006, 09:26 PM

I. For the Game Section:
A-1. About BG&E (Place this here to give an overall summary of the Video game and why this site was created or maybe just the Summary of the Game by itself.)

A. Download(Could be between Screenshots and Purchase. After they go looking through all the info in Chronological order, then they can decide whether they want to download the demo or not.)

B. Characters
i. Jade
ii. Pey'J
iii. Double H
iv. Hahn
v. General Kheck
vi. DomZ
vii. Mammago Folk

C. Locations
i. Lighthouse
ii. Hillyan City
a. Akuda Bar
iii. Black Isle
iv. Neutra-Phils(Sp?) Factory
v. Slaughterhouse
vi. Races
vi. Moon Base

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III. Fan Network:

A. Downloads
1-5
6. Misc(If we just want to swarm everything else in there or...)

6. Music Videos

7. Misc(Miscellanious would be anything else that doesn't fit the norm. Because I still have to finish up that CS_Lighthouse map...)

B. Fan Network
1. Fan Facts(Don't put the funny in front of the Fan. Let the user decide. ;) )
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IV. About Us
B. The Team(We'll have to create a production line name or something ^_^ Instead of Developers because people could get that confused with the Game Developer than Website Developer. )
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Other than that, I think that is it. Unless someone knows how to code out mini-flash games. ^_^

I really haven't got any ideas for this one, but I encourage others to give theirs if they have them! One thing though: Creative names for the major sections won't be necessary, I think. We need to keep it simple for newcomers. We don't want them to get lost. Clear names should be sufficient.

I agree with that one. Keep it simple.

Though, we have added tons of stuff already(Heh heh), it'll be easy to organize as things come through. I think today I'll buy myself a planner. Yeah...a planner...

Yes keep it simple, but mainly "Fan Network," "Fan Facts," and "Fan Corner" is the name I hate. Any suggestions?

Also, and your going to have to trust me on this one, we can only have 4-6 sub topics per main topic (That's the "A, B, C" part of the outline). Any more and the images will be tiny. So, we need at least one more category under "About Us" any ideas?

Fan Corner = Revolution/IRIS community


II. Fan Network
    A. Download = Revolution Media
         1. Desktop Icons
         2. Cursors
         3. User Music
         4. User Wallpaper
         5. User Icons
         6. Movies = Trailers n stuff
    B. Fan corner =Community Media
         1. Fan Facts = Bar at top selects random "Did you know?" facts
         2. C&P Handbook = Interactive Object on index page = Double H's Notes= List of C&P sayings with page numbers OR random C&P saying bar at the top

         3. Fan Fiction = Fanfic?
         4. Fan Art =Member Artwork
         5. Music Videos = Fan Movies (Not just music videos)

I have a LOT of BG&E trailers/Music vids n stuff on my HD. Ill see if I can get them to you somehow.

Other ideas = Characters page : Roll mouse over Black and White Photos to bring up character bio , ie, Specie, Occupation, La di dah.

Nutri-pils are Nutrition Pills, aka k-Bups.

Links: Irisnetwork.net, Hylliannews.com off the top of my head

I'll give it a try:

Fan Network: I suppose we could make this one IRIS Network or something. I really don't know what else it could be called. But it might go against my earlier suggestion of keeping it simple. I'm not sure.

Fan Facts: Could be changed into Game Facts, or maybe BG&E Trivia.

Fan Corner: Fan Projects, Community Corner/Projects, Revolution Corner/Projects, Creativity Corner, Lighthouse Art.

Hey, at least I tried.

Great ideas Fish!

That's exactly what I was talking about! We're going to have a very well organized site!

heh... I like BG&E trivia. Could be a scrolling bar...

I think we could do a interactive photo album object for screenshots on the index page.

And we can be sure that it will be a bigass photo album. ;) Good idea, BTW.

Alright, mybe we could have got this done in one day... oh well! I over shot a bit.

Anyway, I'll gonna create a print out site map and I'll post it as I lock this topic later today!

Here's a "visual" site map for just another view of the site. It is the same exact organization!

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7622/mine3hx.png

I'm closing this topic now and moving on to the site mock ups!