Pics from Seaside

These were e-mailed to me this morning to use on the day trip page for Seaside. I thought we could use one with some text, or something.

Thursday Notes and Actions Items

Notes

• Logo will be flush against the menu bar; Photos in the header will have padding around them
• Want to play around with the font on the menu bar, for now make menu items in all caps
• Discussed changing map link, for now make smaller to make room for quick facts (map link will open a pop-up window)
  
• Discussed changing color of the quick facts box --> Possibly to correlate with the colors in the images we select for the header?
• Plan to make basic links in the footer for about, dtc, site map, etc.
• Change direction of the blue curve in the logo to mimic 'river' shape

Decision to swap Parks & Rec with Arts & Culture on the schedule to give Jeff time to select images and work with Emily to wrap up the design. Work on the Parks & Rec content will begin on Tuesday. Emily will attend the usability workshop (?) and the rest of us will meet to work with Ryan on the content.

Action Items

Emily: code basics of the website (it is OK if we don't have final images or the slideshow, just use placeholders)

Jeff (Lots for you!)

• Think about the notes I mentioned above and make changes as necessary
• Determine how many photos you will need for the slideshow (9, 12?) and select the ones you'd like to you from the images available on the blog.
• Determine the two images you'd like to use for the header. We decided to use on that shows people 'living' and one that gives an idea what the landscape looks like here.
  
• If the images we have from Ed are lacking in some way, let me know which shots you'd like to use and what they are missing (contrast, snow, etc) and I can work with Ed to see if he can take new shots or see if he has anything else in his stock collection.
• I'd like to send Ed the final selection by Tuesday.
• Let me know if you are able to do the slideshow so I can get back with Dene about that.

Ryan

• Prepare for a working session on Tuesday for the Parks and Rec session.
• Come with photos and copy for the different parks and trails you want to feature.
• Make a shot list of images that you may need (i.e. tennis center, firstenburg, etc)
• Make a list of links that are relevant to your section so we can discuss where those will logically fit in. We had thought we would just link the text in the copy...
• Think about how the layout will work (map with pop-ups icons? or text surround by wrapped images?) and what our final pages will be (we had discussed combing sports and possibly parks and trails)
  

If I missed anything, please feel free to comment to the post. Have a great weekend everyone! ~ Tayler

Congratulations and some ideas for moving forward...

Great job today at the presentation and special congrats to Jeff on having your design selected!

Some comments I made note of...
Ed and Gregg requested that we pick new photos for the two header images. Also, Gregg is going to get back to us with the 'quick facts' they want to see on the home page. Everyone liked colors Jeff used and they thought that the text was more readable on the green background. Gregg and others requested to be included in reviewing our web pages as we approach each deadline. I'm going to start thinking of ways to review 'drafts' that look like the website, even though it won't be up yet...any ideas would be very appreciated!

Next steps...
We really need to get a handle on our photography needs. I proposed to Ed Vidinghoff that we would be able to have the home page final selection prior to March 10th (I'm thinking within a week though) and we will have a finalized list for each subsection 1 week prior to the draft deadline. If new photos need to be taken, we can always use a placeholder image while we wait to Ed to take the shots and get back to us with them.

Coding for the website layout. Jeff - Now is the time to start giving your image files to Emily so she can start planning for coding the basic structure of the website.

Research, research, research. Now that we know which design we are going with, I think each of us can start planning out the layouts for our sub-pages, drafting copy, and making a list of necessary images.

We can talk more about all these things on Thursday. For now, enjoy some much deserved rest!

nw map

If I remember correctly, Tayler asked to maybe have a little map that shows where Clark County is to relation to the state, oregon, and stuff. I made a map in Photoshop, it's a little cartoony. Not sure if this works or not, it might be able to be a small image somewhere just to give a little overview of where we are.
Looking at the map again, I need to make the Clark County words bigger, and over some. So they don't get lost where they are at.

This is a new version, after hearing some comments I made some changes.

Layout 3

Home page

Second page

Condensed Neighborhood Questionnaire

Please give a brief description of your area. What sort of architecture is common in the housing that is available? What are your fellow residents like?

What is the median price of homes in your area?

What unique aspects of your area would you like to see highlighted? (example: celebrations, events, locations)

Please include any images of your neighborhood that we could use to represent the housing and/or recreation in your area. Credit will be given to all photographers.

Parks and Rec. Info

Larger Parks/Activities; Esther Short, Vancouver Lake Park, Pacific Community Park (also has big skatepark), Ridgefield Wildlife Habitat

Trails; Bells Mountain, Lacamas Heritage, Burnt Bridge, Whipple Creek
~we have an okay from the clark county parks and rec to use pics and info from their site

Spectator Sports; All of the Pro teams in the area are in Oregon (Blazers, Beavers...) or Seattle, we may have this in day trip???

Participatory Sports; Adult and youth leagues, baseball, softball, volleyball, basketball...link to the parks and rec site for sign up and dates information

Day Trip; Mt. St. Helens, Ginford Pinchot National Forest, Seaside, Or (the coast), Hood River, Grist Mill
~We have the okay to use pics and info from seaside and probably from the national forest site.