This is a multi-part MIME message --_===11319948====rems04.cluster1.charter.net===_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- the forwarded message follows --- --_===11319948====rems04.cluster1.charter.net===_ Content-Type: message/rfc822 From: "MARIE MICKALUNAS" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] Answer to Question About County Sites To: [email protected] X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.4.0.6 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:09:29 -0400 Message-ID: <[email protected]> In-Reply-To: <[email protected]t> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sorry about that. I must have answered the last question through web access to my email account rather than using Eudora or Outlook. My web email puts my account's original "name" on the emails I send out. Yes, R. M. Stevens is Marie Mickalunas. My full name is Rhonda Marie Mickalunas Stevens, but it's just too much to write each time! R. Marie On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:51:29 -0400 (GMT-04:00) [email protected] wrote: >I'm a little confused about who is answering questions >here. Is R.M. Stevens <[email protected]> the same >person as Marie Mickalunas <[email protected]> ? >Thanks, >Linda > > >-----Original Message----- >From: "R.M. Stevens" <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 12, 2003 9:35 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [WIGEN-L] Answer to Question About County Sites > >This is a question asked by Anne. > >4) Being a VERY independent person, I like the CC's >ability to control >their own project sites with minimum rules/supervision -- >standard logo, >links to US GenWeb, etc. are acceptable ... What minimum >will you suggest >that each site will be required to have or not have? > >We have requirements set forth by both the US GenWeb >project and the WI >GenWeb project. I believe these are: > * All web sites shall include prominent display of >The USGenWeb Project >logo on the home page. > * Every page must have a pointer to the Wisconsin >State Page. > * Every county must provide a query page. > * Every page must provide some kind of resource >information for county. > * The WIGenWeb Project has designated a color series >of logos or >banners to identify the WIGenWeb Project. The design is >mandatory on the >main page of each WI County belonging to WIGenWeb > * Listings of research materials and/or services >which may be for >sale/hire shall not be on the main web page for the site > * Perform periodic reviews of local-level project >web sites to ensure >compliance with The USGenWeb Project/XXGenWeb Project >established >guidelines/standards. > * Removal of any links to web sites which fail to >meet The USGenWeb >Project/XXGenWeb Project established >guidelines/standards. >One of the first things we should do would be to review >these requirements, >and make sure we understand what they are saying. We >should verify we want >to continue with all existing WI GenWeb project >requirements, or we should >make changes where necessary. > >I'd like to try to get us going (as a state) on getting >these things >established ASAP. I want to state it would be the County >Coordinators who >would decide what would be required of all WI GenWeb >sites; it wouldn't be >me. I'd be there to make sure things agreed upon by the >CCs were actually >done. > >I would like to see simple modifications to make our web >sites >user-friendly to all researchers, including people with >disabilities, as an >increasingly large percentage of our researchers are >homebound or >elderly. Our sites shouldn't be so high-tech that people >with older >machines and browsers can't view them correctly. > Conversely, our sites >shouldn't be so out-of-date that they are optimal for 14K >connection >speeds. We need to continuously improve our sites, >always keeping the >users of our sites in the forefront of whatever we do. > Static sites are a >thing of the past, and our users have the right to expect >our sites will >continue to grow as our project grows. > >I personally have a lot of ideas on what I'd like to see >our Wisconsin >sites look like. However, when it came time to vote (as >we would), I would >get only one vote. I don't see the SC position as a >dictatorship. It won't >work that way. However, we won't grow if we don't have >leadership. I >would like to lead people forward in a direction that >helps us to produce a >collection of sites we can all be proud of. > >-Marie > > > >==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== >Celebrate Wisconsin! >Visit the Waukesha County WIGenWeb Project Pages >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaukes/indice.html > > > >==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== >Celebrate Wisconsin! >Visit the Washburn County WIGenWeb Project Pages >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwashbu/ > --_===11319948====rems04.cluster1.charter.net===_--