Improving the Front Page

I have to say that I love the look of the site. The DAP logo contest was a complete success and it lead to a sleeker looking site. But the front page is a bit skimpy containing only a Home page, Message Board, Contribute, and Contact Us links.

What about adding info links on the top of the page or left side of the page to beef up the front page (by the Navigation and credit cards and Paypal symbols)? I was thinking we can have:

- a FAQ page: one for Dreamies (requirements etc)and the other for the general public/supporters - we already have FAQs already up so we can just refurbish and transfer it over to the front page.

- an Immigration and/or Dream Act News Feed page

- a Write to your Senator/Congressperson page (pre-written letter and email included sort of like this here)

- a buy DREAM page like T-shirts and nicknacks from Cafe Press with proceeds going to support the site.

- a Good guy links page to organizations/people that support us like nilc, la raza, immigrationprof, and greg siskind

- an About Us page

With these additions (and other ideas from people), I think the front page could be greatly improved.

Thoughts?

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As promised, I've been working on setting up the infrastructure for that.

The area is not publicly accessible, but it is there. The focus is to facilitate sustainable growth versus a one time push to update the site; such attempts have essentially failed before.

you use The Logo Creator form LaughingBird software right?

We use adobe photoshop and dreamweaver for all our designs and logos..

I can donate a piece of software (licensed). It can be used as CMS system, it uses smarty tempates (smarty.net) and it is a membership base software. (I been working on this for 2 years), let me know if you would like more info about this software (I can setup a test site).

Thanks for the offer, but we are using Drupal as our CMS and its working great, so we're gonna stick with it.

I made a post a while ago about adding to the current logo.

My idea was to have a graduate in robes and mortar hat, holding a degree standing next to say a Marine in full dress uniform (the snappy ceremonial ones) or in combat uniform. I think having those two people standing next to each other (maybe with Old Glory behind them), to the right of our current logo, would be something worth having because it would visualize what the DREAM Act and its goals are about to any casual visitor.

Just throwing it out there in case any logo designers are working on the revamp.

How about moving the News Room forum over to the Front Page/Home Page? The comments can stay and it'll be added at the bottom of whatever articles people post like in The Caucus blog on the New York Times website?

Yea, we're definitely going to do something like that. We are going on a much faster track with these things in the coming month or so. So, stay tuned.