[Ansteorra] Event Calendar

[rose_welch at yahoo.com]

I always make my event sites handicapped accessible, so people using text-to-speech readers can use the site as well.

-R


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From: Bree Flowers <evethejust at gmail.com>
Sender: ansteorra-bounces+rose_welch=yahoo.com at lists.ansteorra.orgDate: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:50:15 
To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.<ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Reply-To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Event Calendar

I thought about volunteering to write a document, but that chronicler
page really has most of the information you'd *need* in a website too.
I'll write up some of the extras and submit it to the Florilegium if
people think it would be useful though.

Ideally, an event website should give potential attendees all the
information they need to find the site and arrive in a timely manner
with everything they will require to enjoy their day to the fullest.

There's some other nice-to-know things that could be included in a
website. Off the top of my head I came up with what kinds of
"facilities" are on-site (flushies, privies or porta-johns)? Is there
water and is said water potable? Is it wheelchair accessible? What are
the policies with regards to fire (either camp fires at a camp site or
candles at feast), and smoking? Is there camping space and is there an
additional fee for camping? What activities are offered? Are there any
special requirements on any of the activities (for example bardic
performances requiring documentation, fighters being restricted to
particular weapons, camping in period pavilions only)? What is the
feast menu? Who can people contact with food allergies/dietary
restrictions and what is the latest date they should try to do so
(though this will not guarantee accommodation of course)? Will there
be any lunch available and is there an extra charge for it?

The only other biggie I could come up with for event websites is
please, for the love of all things small and furry, do not use Flash.
None of the apple products that so many of us love (ipods, iphones and
ipads) can see flash. Anything that might prevent people from seeing
the website you have so lovingly designed is a bad thing.

Is there anything else I've missed?

~Eve

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:20 PM,  <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Elizabeth Crouchet <elizabeth at crouchet.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to see a list of thing that a web site should include about
>> an event. A list of things that many people find helpful. Maybe in
>> the form of a checklist useful to an event steward and the webmaster
>> for that event.
>
> A good starting point would be under http://chronicler.ansteorra.org/
> :
>
>    Here you will find step by step instructions for:
>
>    Event Announcement
>       Required and optional items
>       How to design an event announcement
>       Items to submit with your event announcement
>       When, where, and how, to submit your event announcement
>
> Since a Web page doesn't have the space or deadline limitations that a
> Black Star one-page ad has, a lot more should be added.  But this is
> nevertheless at least the necessary minimum.
>
> Danel de Linccolne
> --
> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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