Blog-style newsfeed (front page)

About: neighborhood description, mission

Location: boundaries, close to downtown, map

Join, Subscribe, Donate, Volunteer  (http://www.urbanharvest.org/involved/volunteer.html)

Calendar of Events, trash, meetings, etc

Local Amenities: Parks, libraries, golf courses, arboretum, White Rock Lake, Trinity Trails, DART station, museums, IMAX, Superpages.com Music Center (Formerly Smirnoff), Shakespeare Dallas (Samuell Grand Amphitheatre), Deep Ellum, Baylor Hospital, Downtown Dallas, Fair Park, ... 

Events (list new events via tag-sourced blog stream; show pics from past events; link to photostream using facebook?)

History and Architecture, Landmarks

Contact Us (form, choose topic from dropdown list and some note)

Facebook, Twitter badges

Facebook streams: http://blancer.com/tutorials/81921/15-simple-ways-to-integrate-facebook-into-your-website/

Neighborhood Projects (code, crime, beautification, social, etc.)

T-Shirt, Cap Purchases (http://www.cafepress.com/)

Trash & Recycling Info (what can be recycled?)

Yard of the Month (pic plus bio)

Newsletters (archives)

Phase II+ Menu Structure

• Lakewoodneighborhood.org - Rodney Likes - "I like the feel of the first page, especially the information and mix of color in their ads for LNA. I also like the weather on there too."
• http://www.sahd.org/ - Swiss Avenue
• hsmna.org - Rodney Likes - "I like the way they have their homepage has color, I just wish that the page was a full screen. I like the way they have their links page set up, the newsletter page and their contact us page."
• http://www.juniusheights.org/
• http://lakewoodheights.org/
• http://www.fergusonroad.org/
• http://www.oldlakehighlands.com/ - Think it’s the colors of this site that make it boring.  Did like the Pet tab.
• http://www.sahd.org/ - I was actually surprised at how basic and blah the Swiss Avenue website is.
• http://belmontna.org/ - I like how a pic is the first thing you see and grabs you right away.  I like their membership sitemap.
• http://www.vpna.org/ - I like how simple this is and easily organized.  They don’t have an overwhelming amount of information on the home page but it’s easy to navigate.  Also like the site map to show the area, very clear what streets are included and boundaries.
• http://www.foresthillsdallas.org/ - Like how it’s easy to find upcoming events and easy to find recent newsletter.
• http://www.lakewoodneighborhood.org/ - Cool idea to include the weather on the website.
• http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/Casa_Linda_Forest/home - Don’t really like the color or layout.  But like that it has a discussion blog and the home values listed.
• http://www.juniusheights.org/ - Dues includes the Non-profit corporation info for taxes.
• http://www.kesslerpark.org/ - Cool intro, even when you skip the intro it automatically takes you to home page where you can take virtual tour and has city links.  Had a neat New Resident Form – would be great to put flyer on new residents that move into the neighbor, to access the website.  Also had a Committee tab to link to the different specific committees that Kessler Park does every year.
• http://hillcrestforest.org/ - Like that the link to see photos are up front and center.  Makes people want to check the site to see if there are any pics of family/friends.  There’s also a Wildlife tab.  It would be cool if we had something similar about different birds/wildlife that have been spotted in the park.  Maybe feature something different each month.
• http://www.bryanplace.org/   - I like how they have the Yard of the Month is added to the front page with pics and little article about each yard/owner.  The Dinner on the Town was pretty cool too!  Could do something like a Give Back Night to raise money at the same time!
• http://wrvna.org/ - I like the menu bar at the bottom, plus in contacts it actually has the personal email address to each person on the board.

• Awesome Designers:
• Tom Lane: http://gingermonkeydesign.com/
• Menus:
• Top-level menu; side-sub-menu: http://squaredeye.com/about/
• Simple horizontal menu at top: http://jenkins-ci.org/content/about-jenkins-ci
• Interesting background style, simple menu: http://www.nextnature.net/2009/12/the-playboy-interview-marshall-mcluhan/
• Awesomely simple header menu and great styling: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/02/28/principles-of-color-and-the-color-wheel/
• Background / Design Accents and Elements / Footers:
• Ornate background design: http://skinessentialsbyheather.com/
• Accent designs; hardwood-floor background: http://www.chamadigital.com/
• Interesting design, too complicated for us, but could see a tree branch used in place of the curly design: http://www.dreamtemplate.com/templates/Abstract/detail/5365.html
• Natural background and tree leaves integration: http://www.cgalvin.com/
• Nice use of leaves in styling: http://greatandsmallblog.com/2011/03/07/the-death-star-was-an-agile-project/
• Interesting flash footer with birds flying thru forest: http://www.roome.co.uk/home/
• Simplified trees in design and page footer: http://www.carbonica.org/
• Good basic design with nature accents: http://orchardproject.net/
• Background and line drawing accents on front page: http://matthewnsara.com/
• Interesting footer and rotating background: http://www.lionite.com/
• Interesting historical-looking header/footer (08/2011): http://www.techinterview.org/
• Use of monochrome diagrammatic overlays (plant sketches) on top of color photos: http://www.newnurseries.com/
• Muted background, crisp foreground:  http://www.piehead.com/blog/2011/05/why-startups-could-use-net-but-don%E2%80%99t
• Active header graphic:  http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/02/common-mobile-web-design-mistakes/
• Web 2.0/3.0 style focusing on grid of 3's, 2's, 1's:
• http://occupyflash.org/
• http://evernote.com/
• http://www.getmentalnotes.com/
• http://launcheffectapp.com/
• http://lesscss.org/ -- nice html5 / css
• http://awayfind.com/  -- HTML5 font-style (embossed/raised)
• http://knockoutjs.com/
• http://wufoo.com/
• http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ (Interesting center-based image / layout with menu on top)
• http://www.sqlbi.com/ (nice overall layout/styling)
• Logo Treatment:
• Nice use of gradients and styling of the C|Net circle button logo: http://www.cnet.com/
• Logo and general appearance: http://www.sourcebits.com/about
• General:
• Retro feeling: http://www.elated.com/
• 50's retro feeling: http://billyjacks.biz/
• Nice basic style and use of quality photos: http://theteam.co.uk/about/
• Decent font colors, minimal styling: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
• Simple use of fonts to offer nice minimalist styling: http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/column/1264/coding-for-success/
• Colors and Fonts:  http://blog.lightbody.net/post/17327461693/10-tips-for-achieving-email-bliss
• Colors and Texture:  http://devhammer.net/blog/why-developers-should-care-about-design-and-how-metro-helps

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