Management and Organization of the CSSA Website

The current structure of the website files is such:

• index.php
• • head.php
  • body.php
  • • header.php
    • • searchbar.php
    • nav.php
    • content.php
    • • theloop.php (page)
      • categoryloop.php (category)
      • singleloop.php (single)
      • • comments template (default)
      • search-content.php (search)
    • sidebar.php
    • footer.php

The files in bold are the ones that I believe are in need of attention.

head.php

We do not have any meta-data in our head file where it would be useful. The fact that we do not declare a character encoding also generates a warning from the W3C validator. Our style.css file, meanwhile, generates a lot of warnings, but the majority of them aren’t very valid. Fixed.

searchbar.php

could be streamlined a little bit more. Remember though, that forms require fieldsets for W3C validation (I fixed this last night).

content.php’s children

We need to bring about greater consistency in the structure of generated content.

categoryloop.php

We should use WordPress to manage media in posts and use WP’s functionality to manage thumbnail presentation

comments template

We are currently using a modified version of the default comments template, which doesn’t validate because someone made a spelling error. We should use our own to provide us with better control of presentation.

content management

Styling should not be handled through WP. We should meet to organize a plan of attack such that nested lists don’t become nearly as ugly, and so on and so forth.

graphic design

The graphical design of our website is a bit bland. We could really use some work in this area. In terms of graphics, I should mention we could use brighter colors.

-Jacob