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Welcome to the site of the Lanark branch of the Dante Alighieri Society.Benvenuti nel sito del comitato di Lanark della Società Dante Alighieri.

Accessibility• Ability to increase text size

• Ability to increase text size

• Ability to increase text size

• Ability to increase text size

Accessibility cont…

• Ability to offer higher contrast

• Ability to offer higher contrast

Accessibility cont…• Not everyone has broadband. • More colours pictures and fancy layouts take more time to load

Accessibility cont…• Not everyone has broadband. • More colours pictures and fancy layouts take more time to load

Links Page

Feedback page

• What do you like?

• What could be better?

• Let us know if there are any mistakes.

Social Networking

• Bebo

• Facebook

• MySpace

• Utube

Forum

• “Post” topics for discussion

• Receive replies

• Debate

• Not restricted to local members

• Worldwide

RSS Feeds

• What is RSS?

RICH SITE SUMMARY

• What does it do?

Combines all of the favourite bits from your favourite web sites on one page

RSS Feeds cont..

• Why use them?

An example would be to have them on the front page with a feed to Italian news headlines. These will update as the latest news breaks.

Contacts Page

• Phone

• Email

• Fax

• Map

• Etc

Educational material

• Italian lessons could be posted on the site and preparatory material could be downloaded

• Link could be placed here to external educational sources

Crossword/Soduko

• Anyone make these up? They could be posted on the site at regular intervals

• Keep it clean!!!

Treasure Hunt

• Davinci code clues throughout the site!!hidden

Member Newspage

• News focussed on the members of Lanark Dante

• Exams passed

• New arrivals!

• Expression of thanks

Member Newspage cont…

• Members gallery

• Photograph and short resume

Recipes

Spaghetti Bolognese• Ingredients for the sauce (serves six)

• 500g beef mince

• 650g onions

• 4 400g tins of chopped tomatoes

• 200g tomato concentrate

• 8 tablespoons olive oil

• 1 teaspoon salt (as people started moaning about the amount of salt used - do me a favour, add up the weight of all ingredients to the sauce and then calculate the salt content per 150g serving ... and then STFU, thanks)

• 1 teaspoon pepper

• 2 tablespoons oregano

• two cloves of garlic

• 1 tablespoon honey

• 1 teaspoon paprika

• one glass (125ml) red wine

• one splash of worcester sauce

• 1 teaspoon sambal oelek (hot chilli)

Recipe supplied by Kirk Lothian – 4th Oct 2008

Events Newspage

• News focussed on the future and past events of Lanark Dante

• Podcasts! (Serata Musicale, Audio Review of last event)

Review Page

• Been to Italy lately?

• Where would you recommend?

• Where would you avoid?

• Good hotel – Bad Hotel

• Good Restaurant – Bad Restaurant

More visitors

• Encourage other web sites to put links to our web site• Get sponsorship from businesses that would involve

promotional codes being periodically available from the website. E.g. free glass of wine with every main course at Prego or Ristorante Vigna.

• Word of mouth• Include a link to the site in all Dante related email

communications• Include the web address in the articles sent to the

Lanark Gazette

Summary

• The presentation shows some of how the site should look

• This presentation is available for download on the site at the moment

• What next?

Summary cont…

• Review & discuss the possibilities

• Why do you want a website?

• What should it provide?

• How should it look?

• Who will provide the updated content and when?

Ringraziarla per il suo tempo

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