| webmaster | Roles reworked and expanded---COMPLETED | No | Expand    |
CONTENT CREATORS are empowered to create/edit Flexinodes (Person, Publication) and Pages. Right now David and Kumiko are the only content creators. This was done to free up Admin role to fewer people, right now, just Ali.AUTHORIZED USER changed name to ADMINISTRATOR Created new role of DEVELOPMENT INSIDER for people like board members, staff and others interested in development of IHEA.info. These users empowered to post in forum and perhaps eventally post new tasks.
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| webmaster | Block displays reworked ---COMPLETED | No | Expand |
--Most popular content, active forums, who's online blocks eliminated.
-Control block and menu eliminated
--Administer, Settings and Create Content menus returned to their default installation place under Navigation menu. PLEASE DON'T CHANGE THIS JUST BECAUSE YOUR TASTE IS DIFFERENT. THIS IS MULTI-USER SITE. Other drupal users are used to using these menus in their usual place.
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| webmaster | FOOTER to be reworked | No | Expand |
Don't think should be advertising firefox. We should be compatible with all browsers and defintely not favor a minority browser.
Copyright should read 2004-2006
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| webmaster | Site template to be reworked | No | Expand |
Considering use of internall PRIMARY / SECONDARY nav menus to create conditional menu system in header. But this has to wait until content logic is reworked. Considering using TAB shapes for primary. Right now all links left in simplest, unstyled.
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| webmaster | Create MEDIA section ---- COMPLETED | No | Expand |
The following link: http://ihea.info/media pulls up pages categoried "media", to be used for IHEA media reports, press releases by IHEA or others mentioning IHEA, and IHEA press kit (when it is eventually created).
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| webmaster | Upgrade to Version 4.7 of Drupal---COMPLETED | No | Expand |
This was important upgrade because so much of coding of Drupal , the platform on which IHEA.info runs, had changed. Many new features and security patches added. Videocasts available . I did not want to do any work on the site until this upgrade was done. Tested possibility of putting site in a directory below the root folder to ease future upgrades, but problems with keeping absolute links, potential SEO problems, etc. Site remains in root folder
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| webmaster | Check and eliminate host of Errors in Adminsiter page | No | Expand |
Many due to old modules from 4.6 version that no longer used or not yet available |
| webmaster | Content Logic to be reworked | No | Expand |
Will add detail once I have some time to figure things out
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| webmaster | Search Engine Issues | No | Expand |
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| webmaster | Use of FORUMS discontinued, to be used only internally---COMPELETED | No | Expand |
The forums got zero participation, so all eliminated and no longer link to it in the template. There IHEA.info DEVELOPMENT forum created for internal people to disucss development of website.
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| webmaster | Reworking of Donations page | No | Expand |
---adding other options, such as check,
--- Adding Igiving capability.
Request from Reza:
According to present set up the only way that one can donate is through credit card. I have seen many other such sites and there are more options available to people who want to donate. I think at this stage if you please add also donating through mailing check to IHEA address. Some people prefer to mail a check and not giving their credit card number and going through filling out all those information. E.G. in case of myself, I wouldn't donate through credit card and prefer to send a personal check or a cashier's check or a money order.
Also giving IHEA bank account or wire instruction helps some people to wire
money specially from overseas. So suggest to put all these options that people select the one they are comfortable with.
Also donating by shopping through some online stores which one will go to such stores through IHEA Donation Page. For the time being we have Igiving.com which Mike has arranged and I don't know if it is operational or not yet, but anyway you will consider it in your redesigning the donation page. I think there will be some other stores later on in addition to Igiving.com. I visited a cancer web site in UK which had connections with some of well-known brands in women's cloth and apparrels. I will research to find some well-known prestigious online stores to pass the names to Mike to start negotiations with them for establishing the links with them and therefore people visiting IHEA and find out that their a percent of their online shopping goes to IHEA, probably some will try. Even making a few Dollars will be encouraging and gradually it will be increased if we succeed to implement a dynamic marketing strategy.
And at the later stage and in future you will design their online store which I suggest you add it to your Task List to get comments and proposals.
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| webmaster | SimpleNews Newsletter---MOSTLY COMPLETE | No | Expand |
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| webmaster | Contact Survey respondents | No | Expand |
To thank them
To discuss comments, if applicable.
To invite them to test run, check out improvement
Consider having second evaluation survey
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| webmaster | Changed theme to box_grey---COMPLETED | No | Expand |
Box_grey the phptemplate engine, for much better accessiblity to drupal core functions. Also disabled use of all other themes.
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| webmaster | --Clean URL's enabled. Eliminated ?q= prefix from navigation links.--- COMPLETED | No | Expand |
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| webmaster | Replace PDF access with FLASH PAPER | No | Expand |
FLASH PAPER would have SAMPLE watermark to encourage ordering of hardcopies. Discuss with board. See if IHEA can even handle brochure orders.
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| webmaster | Add <<Back link to top of page | No | Expand |
Possibly to the left of the breadcrumb to ease navigation.
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| webmaster | Add "bookmark this page" capability | No | Expand |
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| webmaster | Breadcrumbs--move position, investigate use of comprehensive breadcrumbs | No | Expand |
Should be on top of page.
Look into how to get current page title / category to show up in breadcrumbs.
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