I was looking through my old files and came across this list of
suggestions that I created shortly after the web sites went
live. Some things have been done, and some we have been discussing
recently, so I thought I would add this to the mix:
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Suggestions for Official LDS Web Site
Display more personal information & customization
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Birthdays - omit birth year for adults
consider adding this as a page to the site - upcoming
birthdays (and recent ones)
Cell Phone, Work Phone, and Pagers should be displayed as part of
member directory
(But user can opt to suppress this information)
Add ability to enter a short bio for each member.
This might allow people to use the site to get to know
others in the Stake
Add a "Contact Us" option so that members of other Stakes can contact
the stake or ward.
(We had a family who was moving, and I wanted to alert their
new stake/ward, but couldn't)
Add a section for members in the Military, similar to missionaries.
Change error message for unauthorized Administrator
The current message is a good explanation, but a larger text
above it saying something like:
"This option is limited to Site Administrators"
might be less confusing.
You could also use this link to allow the user to configure
their profile.
Make it easier for HTML formatting
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Add option switch for textarea input boxes to suppress adding <br>
tags for each CR-LF.
Adding breaks might be useful during initial entry, but when
making changes, it can confuse novice users when they go back and try
to revise their text. Also, it makes it harder for experienced web
designers to use HTML to format articles.
It is much harder to debug HTML if you can't indent tags to
indicate structure
BTW - <br> tags should really be <br /> to be XHTML compliant.
Use of Style Sheets
Consider publishing existing styles (featurestext,
featurestitle, etc.)
Consider adding P and TD entries for the existing styles so
that <span> isn't needed
Allow administrator to create their own stylesheet. Include
content of stylesheet between <style> and </style> tags within the
<head>. This will make it easier for administrators to produce
consistent looking pages
Allow administrator to specify "visitors" to site
Administrator can enter list of Membership numbers of people
who can enter the site. This will allow people to keep in touch with
former wards, children at school can visit home ward site, etc.
Visitor entries can have an expiration date if desired
Ability to upload information in addition to keyboard input via browser.
For example, calendar items and ward positions could be
prepared offline first, and then uploaded to the database using some
sort of standard format (e.g., CSV or XML?)
Articles could be prepared locally, and then uploaded as a
single file.
There are Java classes on www.sourceforge.org to extract
text from MS-Word documents, which could help with this.
Ability to download information to local computer
For example, the ability to download certain information
into Excel spreadsheets
Examples could be upcoming events, birthdays, etc.
This information could then be incorporated into
newsletters, e-mails, etc.
(Downloading to Excel is easy - just set content type &
write an HTML table.)
Misc.
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Provide listing of most recent registered users so that the administrator
can see who has signed up recently.
Provide listing of recent visitors so that the administrator can tell
who is using the site.
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Bill Pringle
work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unisysfsp.com
http://www.unisys.com
home/school: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.personal.psu.edu/~wrp103
http://CherylWheeler.com
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