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Website
The website acts in a number of ways. First and foremost it is the home of all things Fresh Air. Not only does it act as the home of the society, and a portal for society communication, it also creates a place where audiences can access the streams as well as see things published by the society, as an online blog or magazine. The new website hopes to make this web space perform this functions clearer, very much becoming a station website that initially presents content produced by the station as its front. From there, it makes availalbe spaces for its members and audience to access the information that they want, and even provide tools.
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History
- 2010: The freshair page moved to drupal, with the redesign launched just in time for the Festival broadcast.
- 2011: This wiki area was designed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the station's creation.
- 2011: A New Drupal 7 installation is currently being worked on, ans will hopefully be ready in time for semester 1 broadcast. Some of the New Website Features will hopefully be available soon.
Theming
You may find Design Resources helpful.
Here is a Website Design Tutorial that explains what everything is and where on the site with diagrams.
Development
The following pages are records appropriate for the Drupal 6 install.
How To - Content types and Views
- Development - Theming
- Development - Members Area
- Development - Show Pages
- Development - Show Page Blog Posts
- Development - Society News
Content Types
All
Music
Commmittee
Good Tutorials
Structure
So the basic structure of the new website makes one quite significant change to the way content is managed. No longer is there a separation between website and station; all content is in some way a part of a show. This is reflected in the new structure.
Radio Show Pages
(news, arts and music, as well as the various shows that exist outside of these hub teams) - as part of the creation of any show, the main creator can administrate who can contribute to these show pages.
Radio Show Blogs
- as these blog posts are attached to shows, they can form a feed, and so essentially these blogs form the podcast. The use of this is two fold - to keep the feed clean; rather than seperate the content here, we have made the decision to keep as much show content as similar as possible. As such, you can use the show blog post however you want - for show news, as a podcast, for posting playlists, or even for use as an actual blog. All of these uses will come under this content type.
News Arts And Music Team Content
- These are specific content types suited to very specific needs of each team; as the more 'official' content of fresh air, there are some more useful purposes for this content, and as such need to be more officially databased (e.g. when reviewing a cd, information about record label and so on) which will allow the information to be displayed well, and which will also in future be helpful in contributing to potential advertising revenue (pipe dream for sure...).
Sidebar, lists and other views have been summarised on the Team Show Views Settings page.
Things To Do
Hitch 09:39, 14 October 2011 (CDT)
- Create More Content Types (see Google Doc)
- Work with Panels visibility - either need to make arts/news/music as roles and create 'actions' to make this change easier, or find a way to make panel visibility work with "who is in the radio show" field.
- Views to make urls work with 2011/11/10 etc.
- Views to make feeds work for show pages (feed module needed?)
- Theme blocks and views to make them look right.
- As part of this define sizes for ImageCache
- Schedule Page - how is this going to work?
Hitch 19:29, 16 October 2011 (CDT)
- Views to make urls work with 2011/11/10 etc.
- Views to make Website-Feeds work for show pages (feed module needed?)
- Theme blocks and views to make them look right.
- As part of this define sizes for ImageCache
- Schedule Page - new content has been made, waiting for shows to emerge, but then simple views should make this visible. Use tags
- Studio Maintenance Features
- Tag pages (Music Genre pages would also be really good)
- Better themed front page
- Better themed Hub Pages
- Feed
External Sites
- static.freshair.org.uk
- Comments will be supplied using Website - Disqus
- Mailing list will be supplied using Website - Mailchimp
Feedback
As with any website we'd love to hear what you, our audience and users, think of the site. Add your feedback and other suggestions to the site on the Website Feedback page.
Future Projects
- integration from the wiki to the main site. For example, a way to make this appear within the main fresh air site would be good (for certain pages, such as the help section, but not all...) There are a few ways of getting this integration to work - This Drupal Module is one, but I am sure there is far more substantial technical solution.
- integration with musicbrainz - would be wonderful if we could expand this site to start including an in depth guide to Scottish music, especially unsigned bands from Edinburgh and further afield
- integration with the studio and playout system
Pie in the Sky Ideas
- Lonely Hearts Column
- basically a place where presenters looking for shows, or shows looking for presenters, or just members hoping to find collaborators, can advertise themselves and meet up.
