Action Plan
Purpose
The West Indian Association of Indiana has taken an active position on our website. The purpose is to update the website with people, literature, activities, and news (PLAN). Our PLAN will affect the West Indian Association of Indiana website on content and technical aspects.
Current Status
The current status of our website is that Rinata Davis has updated the website to more assessable and navigation is easier to use. The action plan will discuss content aspects and technical aspects that will grow over the years. In each aspect, I will discuss management, maintenance, and evaluation sections to gain a deeper understanding of the website.
Content: Management Maintenance Evaluation
Technical: Management Maintenance Evaluation
I. Content Aspects
Management
The management section includes promotion, policy, and volunteering, the promotion will be achieved by flyers and word of mouth advertising through members and friends of the association. The “Government” page will soon have a support page asking for volunteers. The “Building” page will ask for support for the building funds. The policy will bee updated disclaimer will be looked over annually. On the “Directions” page, I will include a map to help make the information a bit more relative.
Maintenance
The maintenance section includes a schedule of high traffic areas. On the “Meeting” page, there will be a list of dates for the upcoming year. On the “Organizational Chart”, there will be pictures of the board members and their duties. I thought this would be important for new members to understand what the board does during meetings. “What's New” page of the website will be updated monthly. The “Schedule” of new materials for the website and “Yearly” events will be updated annually. The “Minutes” page will have information on what was discussed in meeting in a PDF format. I will get this information from the secretary, and the format will be month/date_year.pdf. The sitemap will be updated as needed.
Evaluation
The evaluation section includes all the pages. The evaluation of the website will be formative evaluation every six months. This section will be completed by members of the association and individuals unknown to the website. In an annual summative evaluation of the website, there will be a checking of the labeling, grouping, and structure of the website. The structure is the how effective and useful is my website. I want patrons to leave with a sense of accomplishment. The grouping would be looking over once a year so as not change too much so that regular patrons can get information without struggling. The labeling, which is a type of prototyping, will be looked at during this time so that when different groups change an overall change will happen. This summative evaluation will help clear up some confusion of the website, if there is any confusion. The content will be check for accuracy and consistency for validation reasons.
II. Technical aspects
Management
The management section includes staff involvement. The “Events” page will have a new picture gallery were individuals can get their pictures put up. The guestbook on the home page will help in feedback about the website and other ideas.
Maintenance
The maintenance section includes e-mail requests, on-going maintenance, and change detectors. The e-mail requests will be checked daily and the e-mail will be located in the JavaScript footer on the all of the pages. The on-going maintenance aspect will be checking the statistics on the pages to see what is being used often. The “News” page will have flags JavaScript mouse over to help people associate which flag goes with which country.
Evaluation
The evaluation section is about validation. Validation will be in place for usage for assessable issues by Bobby- A Approved. The HTML will be checked by W3C Validator, Doctor HTML, and W3C CSS Validator.
West Indian Association of Indiana
P.O. Box 55959
Indianapolis , IN 46220
Voice Mail: 317-596-2366
E-mail: Rinata Davis