07-05-2013, 09:57 AM
Ok, on a faster interface now.
I'd suggest changing the "OA Novellas" header to "Books & E-Books" since a novella is a specific type of story (determined by word count) and OA has books and e-books of various lengths, both shorter and longer than novella length.
Re including or folding in the other OA stories and artwork. Many of the stories on our current pages are actually in past issues of V:FT. As part of the ezine redesign we can fold the past issues into the CMS and have them just accessible via the V:FT back issues section as you've shown it in the images here.
For those stories that aren't part of V:FT already and for the art galleries, I'm thinking we could fold the non-V:FT into a special 'issue' of the ezine that is accessed via the 'Past Issues' page in the new design (we wouldn't call it an issue or actually put it out as one, but it would be reached the same way as a past issue). Then put a link along the top to 'OA Artwork' (up where you have the links to OA Universe and OA Forums). In the short term this would link to the 'Stories and Art' page and in the longer term to a page to get to the art galleries and the movie pages in the redesigned website.
How does this sound?
Todd
I'd suggest changing the "OA Novellas" header to "Books & E-Books" since a novella is a specific type of story (determined by word count) and OA has books and e-books of various lengths, both shorter and longer than novella length.
Re including or folding in the other OA stories and artwork. Many of the stories on our current pages are actually in past issues of V:FT. As part of the ezine redesign we can fold the past issues into the CMS and have them just accessible via the V:FT back issues section as you've shown it in the images here.
For those stories that aren't part of V:FT already and for the art galleries, I'm thinking we could fold the non-V:FT into a special 'issue' of the ezine that is accessed via the 'Past Issues' page in the new design (we wouldn't call it an issue or actually put it out as one, but it would be reached the same way as a past issue). Then put a link along the top to 'OA Artwork' (up where you have the links to OA Universe and OA Forums). In the short term this would link to the 'Stories and Art' page and in the longer term to a page to get to the art galleries and the movie pages in the redesigned website.
How does this sound?
Todd