[Chapter-delegates] Internet Society unveils new website design

Thu Dec 27 02:50:15 PST 2007

Dear Philemon,

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.

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.

2) If I have to have incheenisoc.co.in listed in search engines and
directories I will have to spend a fortune. I may not be effective also.

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

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

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.

6) I may not be knowledgeable about where to host the website, so I might
end up hosting inchenisoc.co.in 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 inchenisoc.co.in to bounce, which
would result in a waste of time for me.

On the contrary if there is a system of centralized hosting, storage and
subdomains, I will have a domain name as www.isoc.org/indiachennai or
indiachenai.isoc.org which sounds pretty nice.

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 www.ibm.com or hp or dell or sun or apple and navigate to find their
india or australian websites which are locally managed.

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.

Those who have existing domains that are already familiar might still use
their known domains in addition to the isco.org subdomain.. They could set
up their domain name in their domain registires to point to the website at
the isoc subdomain.

Some Design Observations:  The present isoc.org 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.

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

http://www.openmoko.com/
http://www.genflux.de/
http://www.ebuddy.com/

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.

It requires a lot of thinking as to how to get the chapter websites
organized.

Thank you
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
ISOC India Chennai Chapter.

On 12/27/07, philemon <philemon at drtvnet.cg> wrote:
>
>  Hi Muthusamy and All
>
> 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  www.isoc.cg -sorry for the advertising :) -
> or www.isoc.fr ...
>
> I dont no maybe bring all chapter Internet domain name into line will be
> better.
>
> Thanks
>
> Philemon
>
> ISOC-CG
>
>
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> *To:* Franck Martin <franck at sopac.org>
> *Cc:* Michael Burks <icdri at icdri.org> ; Chapter Delegates<chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:11 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Chapter-delegates] Internet Society unveils new website
> design
>
> Dear Anne,
>
> In this context it would be worthwhile to think of chapter websites as
> isoc.org subdomains such as *www.peru.isoc.org* <http://www.peru.isoc.org> or
> *www.isoc.org/peru* <http://www.isoc.org/peru> or
> may be even a new domain *www.isocchapters.org/peru* <http://www.isocchapters.org/peru>
>
> Template design, in that case could be automatically built in. The
>
> design of the website could be one that is easy to upload / edit pages
> as in a weblog.
>
> This would be of a lot of help to all chapters.
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> IsocIndiaChennai
>
>
>
> On 12/27/07, Franck Martin <franck at sopac.org> wrote:
> >
> > Cynthia,
> >
> > It is not?
> >
> > Can you point to issues with current design?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Cynthia Waddell wrote:
> > > Dear Anne:
> > > This would be a good time to build accessible web design into the
> > templates.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Cynthia Waddell
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > Cynthia D. Waddell, JD
> > > Executive Director and
> > > Law, Policy and Technology Consultant
> > > International Center for Disability Resources
> > >    on the Internet (ICDRI)
> > > Phone:  (408) 691-6921
> > >
> > > ICDRI is based in
> > > Raleigh, North Carolina USA
> > > http://www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/cynthia_d.htm
> > >
> > > See My New Book!
> > > Web Accessibility:  Web Standards and
> > > Regulatory Compliance by Apress
> > > at www.icdri.org/WSR_Book.htm
> > > See also Constructing Accessible Web Sites
> > > www.icdri.org/constructing_accessible_web_site.htm
> > >
> > > Is your Web Site Accessible?
> > > Find out now with Cynthia Says! www.cynthiasays.com
> > > Endorsed by the American Council of the Blind,
> > > the CynthiaSaysTM portal is a joint Education
> > > and Outreach project of ICDRI, The Internet
> > > Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter,
> > > and HiSoftware.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
> > > [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of ISOC
> > > Membership
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:30 PM
> > > To: Jose Francisco Callo Romero
> > > Cc: Chapter Delegates
> > > Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Internet Society unveils new website
> > design
> > >
> > > hi Jose,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your comments and suggestion.  A template kit for chapters
> > > will be developed, available for use by all chapters. This will be
> > > done as a priority and we will send an email to this list as soon as
> > > it is available.
> > >
> > > best wishes
> > > Anne
> > >
> > >
> > > On 21/12/2007, at 3:57 AM, Jose Francisco Callo Romero wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Mr Mark:
> > >> Let highlight the effort and good taste of the new design of the
> > >> web of ISOC.
> > >> As for the Chapters of Latin America is well layout and easy to
> > >> navigate.
> > >> As you mentioned going to be very interesting connectivity and
> > >> interactivity of each chapter.
> > >> Let please a suggestion: It would be important to uniformize sites
> > >> in Latin America, you can send templates so that the Web is
> > >> standardized and uniform design and layout, just adapting the
> > >> content to each use and need.
> > >> Thanks and Merry Christmas and Venturoso 2008
> > >> From Lima, Peru.
> > >> Fraternally
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Jose F. Callo Romero
> > >> Web Project Manager
> > >> Presidente- ISOC  Peru
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Sigue los principales acontecimientos deportivos en directo. MSN
> > Motor
> > >>
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Anne Lord, Senior Manager                             <lord at isoc.org>
> > > Chapter & Individual Memberships                  http://www.isoc.org
> > > Internet Society (ISOC)                "The Internet is for everyone"
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> > >
> > >
> > >
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