Re: Suggestions for CN web-site

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

Copying web-devel as that's where this belongs

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:00:27AM +0000, Don McGorman wrote:
> Kathie/Dan:
> 
> I've been thinking about the CN website and would like to throw out some 
> ideas for changes:
> 
> 1. Under the Newsletter tab there are only two newsletters available, Vol 
> 14 #1 & #2.  Suggest posting the rest to date as it looks like we have not 
> published a newsletter in the past nine months.

I agree completely and I've been meaning to... I'll make time after I get
the current issue out.

> 2. Suggest renaming the 'Volunteers' tab as 'Employment' since that's what 
> most of the posts are

I'd be happy to if KB agrees.  It used to be something similar, but it was
changed to Volunteers when most of the postings were requests for
volunteers.

> 3. Suggest a new tab 'Volunteer' under 'About' Us which links to a new page 
> telling people about general volunteer opportunities that exist and how to 
> get involved (I would be willing to compose the draft text for this page)

Please do.  I'll put it up.

> 4. Suggest a new tab 'Donate', 'Contribute' or 'Support' under 'About Us' 
> which links to a new page which explains that we are a registered charity, 
> receive no government grants and depend almost entirely on donations.  We 
> could provide our charitable registration number and provide a link to the 
> Revenue Canada Charities Branch web-site for anyone who wants to check if 
> we are legit.  The mailing address would also appear.

Can't hurt.  If someone has time to put some text together, I'll put it up.

> 5. Suggest a new tab 'Contact Us' under 'About Us' which clearly lays out 
> the mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. (Not sure about 
> posting the fax number as that might encourage junk faxes? If someone wants 
> to fax us let them ask for the number)

Same as above.  I see no problem with posting the fax number either.  It's
not like there are auto-harvesters for fax numbers to generate fax spam.

I might be able to adapt my email anti-spam stuff to faxes too... I'll have
to give that some thought.

-Dan

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