I need your help. I have made a start on a possible redesign for the website. Two councillors to be are working on it as well, but I thought now would be a good time to share. Feedback is needed.
The proposals mean:
You arrive at Boomtown after typing in the URL and you are met with a map. If you are not logged in or have not joined all links will lead to the declaration and the download for phones and devices. Once logged in you can then click on the various links to direct you to the streets of Boomtown (something like we have now) and to the forum. I have proposed 2 versions of the forum a simple and a more complex one. You may prefer something in the middle!
Please feel free to download the documents and make any changes. The map is not in the form of a map. An idea was to base it on a monopoly board with the Citizens logo in the background (faintly). Open to other thoughts on this.
It would be good if we could have a chat room (with video?) for online gatherings.
The first page could either be two simple buttons with Boomtown and Downtown or a map or a monopoly board with links to various parts of Boomtown. We’d call the places things like Meat Factory, Boomtown Flats etc. They’d link to pictures, stories etc like those there presently.
Links would also include the sections of Downtown, the rules etc.
the middle part or the backgrlund the CoB ‘logo’.
open to better ideas or alterations to this idea.
Here is the more complex version
(inside Downtown)
Ye Old News Stand (we need a Rat lyric/title/album here, possibly)
Two inner sections.
1. Announcements
2. Don’t Believe What You Read Times
Includes people watching episodes, citizen’s articles, reviews etc.
The Rat Trap
Dilapidated pub and music venue (4 subsections)
1. Meet the band (interviews, questions, chats etc)
2. Venue (youtube links to songs, interviews, gigs etc etcand other links including articles)
3. Discussions about Rats music
4. Gatherings info.
Fine Arts Gallery
For poems, art, photography, writing (other than articles for newspaper) etc, anything the citizens create, including the mural.
The Boomtown Shops
2 subsections here
1. Official merchandise sale
2. Citizens swap or sale (if permitted) and also if permitted, links to ebay collectors items.
Italian Café Community Centre
Discussions about anything, art, music, politics, health, space, absolutely anything.
The Government Block
2 subsections
1. Private space for public servant discussions.
2. Public space for citizens contributions and ideas for the website, including agreed rules/ground rules.
Jimnasium
All the fun and games.
The forum is very muddled at present. It’s called City Hall and has other places and buildings inside it. I propose that the forum is called Dowtown.
this is the simpler version:
Inside Downtown – simpler version
The Rat Trap
Music venue to discuss anything Rat related, videos etc etc
Announcements can go in here
Italian Café
Meeting area for all general discussion, anything other than the Rats.
Jimnasium for games and fun and quizzing
The Government Block
For public servants to discuss (private area)
Public area for ideas general feedback about the website. The rules can go in here.
Buttons back to the map and Boomtown.
Private chat and a chat room.
I unfortunately can’t download the documents (alas, I am on mobile and it doesn’t work for me) BUT this sounds like a super exciting idea and I can’t wait to see how it’ll be executed!!!