Well another thread has begun on the mail list about the state of the current ILUG website. I have tonnes I can say and tonnes I could do for this website IMHO and together with others I think a combinatin of our ideas could make for an exciting and informative website for a newbiee all the way through to an enterprise.
However there are a couple of things I will say now. Don’t bother with the technology. We know it exists so thats not such a big problem. We need to formulate a strategy for the web site first. Then come up with permanaent content links, like about, community and then the more fluid dynamic site content. Apoint specialist teams to look after certain areas. For eample those interested in business and linux look after that section with a a chief and sub editor whom can remove content or alter as necessary. How they run themselves is not important, the main thing is that the overall team has one or two points of contact should things go wrong.
Media watch. Watch whats happening in the media and put a linux spin on it if applicable.
Make the thing easy to naviagte but hell design it beautifully so that it looks good, but also allows the end user to find what they are looking for quickly and easily. Use CSS to its fullest to provide standards complicance with elegant fall back for older browsers.
ohh I could go on and on, but in realtiy I am putting my hand up and saying, I want to help, what do you want me to do. If I need to lead I will I don’t care about the politics of it all, just KISS is all and it will rock!
http://www.gulmu.com/planetnoticias/ for example is a nice and clean style. The rest of their site was similar, but it looks like it was hacked.