Lanark Dante Website

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Lanark Dante Website

• Next Release

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Dual Language

• Translate Page
• Welcome to the site of the Lanark branch of the
  Dante Alighieri Society.

Benvenuti nel sito del comitato di Lanark della
Società Dante Alighieri.
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Accessibility

• Ability to increase text size
• Ability to increase text size
• Ability to increase text size
• Ability to increase text size

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Accessibility cont

• Ability to offer higher contrast

• Ability to offer higher contrast

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Accessibility cont

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

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Accessibility cont

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

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Links Page
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Feedback page

• What do you like?
• What could be better?
• Let us know if there are any mistakes.

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Social Networking

• Bebo
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Utube

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Forum

• Post topics for discussion
• Receive replies
• Debate
• Not restricted to local members
• Worldwide

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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

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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.

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Contacts P age

• Phone
• Email
• Fax
• Map
• Etc

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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

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Crossword/Soduko

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

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Treasure Hunt

• Davinci code clues throughout the site!!

hidden
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Member Newspage

• News focussed on the members of Lanark Dante
• Exams passed
• New arrivals!
• Expression of thanks

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Member Newspage cont

• Members gallery
• Photograph and short resume

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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
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Events Newspage

• News focussed on the future and past events of
  Lanark Dante
• Podcasts! (Serata Musicale, Audio Review of last
  event)

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Review Page

• Been to Italy lately?
• Where would you recommend?
• Where would you avoid?
• Good hotel Bad Hotel
• Good Restaurant Bad Restaurant

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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

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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?

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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?

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• Ringraziarla per il suo tempo
• Ci sono qualunque domande?