[Deptheads] Menu Reorg

[Strategicon Department Heads]

I like the idea of Departments being its own menu featured prominently,
with each department having its own page with a hyperlink back to Run
Event. If there's some way you can give us the ability to build our pages,
that would be awesome, but I understand if it's not possible.

A virtual menu is awesome; we need information pages about the various
software and websites people might use, with links, as well as a common
spot for how-do docs etc. and links to our Twitch and YouTube and Facebook
groups.

Best,

Tara

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:53 PM Strategicon Department Heads <
deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:

> Message From: Tanya Aldrich  taldrich at strategicon.net
> Hi All,
>
> With all the talk of adding pages, that I rarely have an issue with, we
> really should discuss where to list most of these pages in the menu. I’m
> putting a call out for ideas on how to improve/reorg the menu and opinions
> of what I’m listing below.
>
> 8 all access main menu items is about the limit right now. Ninth would be
> Account/Admin. I’ll consider 10 only for a separate Account and Admin menu
> to be discussed later.
>
> Shopping, and Admin are pretty set as a main menus. And I’d like to hold
> off on discussing cleaning up the Admin menu for later session. I’d like to
> focus on what the general user and logged in general user gets to see.
>
> * Do we need the “Homepage” menu item? If so, I’m shrinking it to “Home”.
>
> * I think we need a separate item under Shopping for Strategicon
> Merchandise. This will make the t-shirt art a lot easier to find. Something
> I keep hearing about, but never really heard a solution. Only single con or
> evergreen items need to be purchasable through our online registration page.
>
> * I’m thinking of changing Admin back to Account and adding the account
> links found under the username (they can stay their too, at least for now.
> Then the Admin items for those admins would be added to the bottom of the
> account menu. Part of making things like badges easier to find. It will
> make it a long menu for Admins, but we will discuss the Admin menu in
> general later.
>
> * For Virtual Only Cons, Hotel and Parking menus will go away. Replaced by
> at least one virtual only menu. For things like the guides for all things
> virtual.
>
>
> I also have two radical ideas that Eric A. may not like, but I think
> opinions are still good.
>
> 1. Change Registration Menu, submenus Hotel Registration, Convention
> Registration, Event Pre-Registration
> * Hotel Registration would be the Hotel link, removing it from the top menu
> * Convention Registration would be the Info page with a button at the top
> of the page to get to the current Convention Registration page for those
> who don’t need the info.
> * Event Pre-Registration, moved from the Events menu. Would the name be
> better as Event Early Registration. This can be changed to Event Sign-ups,
> for a pure virtual con.
> * Code of Conduct can stay.
>
> 2. Will only be considered if #1 doesn’t fly. I think Parking could go
> under Hotel.
>
> Either idea frees up a main menu, in particular a menu that has no use
> during a virtual con. This could be a way to move Departments to the main
> menu. Just remember, we need more content and one or more images,
> preferably photos for each department to have a solid presence. I’m willing
> to edit and format, but I don’t know enough about most departments to write
> stuff.
>
>
> Here is the current all access menu setup.
>
> Homepage
> Registration
>         Registration Info
>         Convention Registration
>         Code of Conduct
> Events
>         Event Schedule
>         Events Needs GM
>         Request a Game
>         Run an Event
>         Special Events
>         Event Pre-Reg
>         Game Library
>         Painting Contest
>         Winners
> Shopping
>         Dealer Room
>         Flea Market
>         Auction
> Hotel
> Parking
> Other Info
>         Other Info (only visible on vertical menus, not sure we need)
>         Photo Albums
>         Downloads
>         New to Gaming
>         Food & Stuff
>         Local Game Stores
>         Local Attractions
>         Links & Mailing Lists
>         Advertising
>         Media Guidelines
> About
>         About (should be About Strategicon, and content really needs work)
>         Departments
>         Volunteer
>         Contact Us
>         Supporting Game Groups
>         Sponsors
>
> Tanya
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