Dear Philemon,<br>
<br>
The system of chapter websites sharing an uniform domain, with central
storage space and bandwidth, which isn't going to cost much, would
solve a lot of problems.<br>
<br>
1) on my own, I might choose a domain name such as inchenisoc.co.in.for
the ISOC India Chennai Chapter website which would be lost.<br>
<br>
2) If I have to have <a href="http://incheenisoc.co.in">incheenisoc.co.in</a> listed in search engines and
directories I will have to spend a fortune. I may not be effective also.<br>
<br>
3) I need to hire a webdesigner and I may not have the technical
expertise or time to coordinate with him, so I may end up with a
website that is shabby, featureless, or even dangerous in terms of
vulnerabilities or even unwittingly malicious content. I may get that
site online unawares, but it wouldn't speak well of ISOC<br>
<br>
4) My website, despite the template suggestions from any from ISOC
might be blue in color, Australia's website woule be red in color and
the French might have a website that is green in color.. The
common identity would be lost<br>
<br>
5) France might have some collaborative features which I may not have.
Even if France is willing to share the expertise I may not have the
expertise to build the same features in the Chennai website.<br>
<br>
6) I may not be knowledgeable about where to host the website, so I
might end up hosting <a href="http://inchenisoc.co.in">inchenisoc.co.in</a> somewhere in a malicious
webserver which will would be down most of the time, with a mail server
bannned in a spam database to cause all mail messages from
<a href="http://inchenisoc.co.in">inchenisoc.co.in</a> to bounce, which would result in a waste of time for
me.<br>
<br>
On the contrary if there is a system of centralized hosting, storage
and subdomains, I will have a domain name as <a href="http://www.isoc.org/indiachennai">www.isoc.org/indiachennai</a>
or <a href="http://indiachenai.isoc.org">indiachenai.isoc.org</a> which sounds pretty nice.<br>
<br>
This takes care of several aspects of "Corporate Identity". Several
examples can be found to understand how corporate identity is built up.
For example visit <a href="http://www.ibm.com">www.ibm.com</a> or hp or dell or sun or apple and
navigate to find their india or australian websites which are locally
managed. <br>
<br>
Any regional IBM website looks blue and it all looks the same. Look at
a monitor with the ibm page from 20 feet away, you know that it is an
IBM website. Same should be said of ISOC. This is what Corporate
Identity is all about.<br>
<br>
Those who have existing domains that are already familiar might still
use their known domains in addition to the <a href="http://isco.org">isco.org</a> subdomain.. They
could set up their domain name in their domain registires to point to
the website at the isoc subdomain.<br>
<br>
Some Design Observations: The present <a href="http://isoc.org">isoc.org</a> website looks
functional, neat and well organized. But this being the website of the
Society that is taking the responsibility of shaping the Internet,
needs to have its website refelect the most uptodate trends.<br>
<br>
ISOC website does not have the Web 2.0 look ( I am using this
expression just to bring up a picture of something current ) Some
examples of what the ISOC Chapter website need to like are<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.openmoko.com/">http://www.openmoko.com/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.genflux.de/">http://www.genflux.de/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ebuddy.com/">http://www.ebuddy.com/</a><br>
<br>
The template has to be built in by default by the ISOC webmaster, the
chapters have to just modify the template to upload local content. It
should be as easy as cut and paste, copy and paste, drage and drop. <br>
<br>
It requires a lot of thinking as to how to get the chapter websites organized.<br>
<br>
Thank you<br>
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>
ISOC India Chennai Chapter.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">philemon</b> <<a href="mailto:philemon@drtvnet.cg">philemon@drtvnet.cg</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi <font size="3">Muthusamy and
All</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font size="3"></font></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font size="3">I think we should make a diffirence
between the fact to move to a same template for each chapter web
site and the internet domain name linked to such or such web site. I mean,
one can leave a choice to chapters to use for example a local ccTLD such as
<a href="http://www.isoc.cg" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.isoc.cg</a> -sorry for the advertising :)
- or <a href="http://www.isoc.fr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.isoc.fr</a> ...</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">I dont no maybe bring all chapter Internet domain name
into line will be better.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Thanks</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial">Philemon</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial">ISOC-CG</font></div>
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="isolatedn@gmail.com" href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Sivasubramanian
Muthusamy</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="franck@sopac.org" href="mailto:franck@sopac.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Franck Martin</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="icdri@icdri.org" href="mailto:icdri@icdri.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Michael Burks</a> ; <a title="chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Chapter Delegates</a> </div></span><div>
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:11
AM</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Chapter-delegates] Internet
Society unveils new website design</div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><br></div><pre>Dear Anne,<br><br>In this context it would be worthwhile to think of chapter websites as
<br><a href="http://isoc.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">isoc.org</a> subdomains such as <a href="http://www.peru.isoc.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<u>www.peru.isoc.org</u></a> or <br><a href="http://www.isoc.org/peru" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><u>www.isoc.org/peru</u></a> or<br>may be even a new domain <a href="http://www.isocchapters.org/peru" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<u>www.isocchapters.org/peru</u></a><br><br>Template design, in that case could be automatically built in. The<br><br>design of the website could be one that is easy to upload / edit pages<br>as in a weblog.<br><br>This would be of a lot of help to all chapters.
<br><br>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>IsocIndiaChennai</pre><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Franck
Martin</b> <<a href="mailto:franck@sopac.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">franck@sopac.org</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Cynthia,<br><br>It
is not?<br><br>Can you point to issues with current
design?<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Cynthia Waddell wrote:<br>> Dear
Anne:<br>> This would be a good time to build accessible web design into
the templates. <br>><br>> Best regards,<br>> Cynthia
Waddell<br>> --------------------------------------------------<br>>
Cynthia D. Waddell, JD<br>> Executive Director and<br>> Law, Policy
and Technology Consultant <br>> International Center for Disability
Resources<br>> on the Internet (ICDRI)<br>>
Phone: (408) 691-6921<br>><br>> ICDRI is based in<br>>
Raleigh, North Carolina USA<br>> <a href="http://www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/cynthia_d.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/cynthia_d.htm</a><br>>
<br>>
See My New Book!<br>> Web Accessibility: Web Standards
and<br>> Regulatory Compliance by Apress<br>> at <a href="http://www.icdri.org/WSR_Book.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.icdri.org/WSR_Book.htm</a><br>>
See also Constructing Accessible Web Sites<br>> <a href="http://www.icdri.org/constructing_accessible_web_site.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.icdri.org/constructing_accessible_web_site.htm
</a><br>><br>>
Is your Web Site Accessible?<br>> Find out now with Cynthia Says! <a href="http://www.cynthiasays.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.cynthiasays.com</a><br>> Endorsed
by the American Council of the Blind,<br>> the CynthiaSaysTM portal is a
joint Education <br>> and Outreach project of ICDRI, The Internet<br>>
Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter,<br>> and
HiSoftware.<br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org
</a><br>>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org</a>]
On Behalf Of ISOC<br>> Membership<br>> Sent: Wednesday, December 26,
2007 5:30 PM <br>> To: Jose Francisco Callo Romero<br>> Cc: Chapter
Delegates<br>> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Internet Society unveils
new website design<br>><br>> hi Jose,<br>><br>> Thanks for your
comments and suggestion. A template kit for chapters <br>>
will be developed, available for use by all chapters. This will be<br>>
done as a priority and we will send an email to this list as soon as<br>>
it is available.<br>><br>> best wishes<br>>
Anne<br>><br>><br>> On 21/12/2007, at 3:57 AM, Jose Francisco Callo
Romero wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> Mr Mark:<br>>> Let highlight
the effort and good taste of the new design of the<br>>> web of ISOC.
<br>>> As for the Chapters of Latin America is well layout and easy
to<br>>> navigate.<br>>> As you mentioned going to be very
interesting connectivity and<br>>> interactivity of each
chapter.<br>>> Let please a suggestion: It would be important to
uniformize sites <br>>> in Latin America, you can send templates so
that the Web is<br>>> standardized and uniform design and layout, just
adapting the<br>>> content to each use and need.<br>>> Thanks
and Merry Christmas and Venturoso 2008 <br>>> From Lima,
Peru.<br>>> Fraternally<br>>><br>>><br>>> Jose F.
Callo Romero<br>>> Web Project Manager<br>>> Presidente-
ISOC Peru<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> Sigue
los principales acontecimientos deportivos en directo. MSN Motor
<br>>><br>><br>>
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