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SuperMarket Coop Update #11--9/21/00
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Project Update: Well, it was a busy week and we have gotten a
lot accomplished. The two classes last week provided some great
tips and tricks, as well as some good design advice.
For those of you with a little
Web page experience, the supermarketcoop.com site has made the
transition from frames to tables. Visually, you won't find a
whole lot of difference, but it will make the site more accessible
to search engines and older browsers.
We also focused a bit on the
menu options on sites and how to avoid jargon and an excess of
choices. We still have some thinking to do, but we're making
progress. And you will find the participating coops now have
their own button and our vision is for each coop to have their
own page. It would not be an entire Web site but information
on their involvement in the SuperMarket Project. I have started
on HOME's and Fall River's pages already and Gail and Father
Randy are preparing stories, recipes and images of the farmers
and crafters involved.
A point that came up in class,
that poses a challenge concerns the homepage of the site. It
was mentioned that unless you are familiar with the issues surrounding
family farming, you might not understand "Preserving Rural
Communities and a Just Food System through Technology and Collaboration".
I received great response to the Rural Coalition Tree, but the
slogan doesn't really explain what we want visitors to the site
to do. And some folks were perplexed by "small farm products".
Did that mean seed?
fertilizer? tractors?
We will continue to think
about the homepage, but I would love to get any response to that
puzzle. And I also want to ask the same question I posed last
week. "I would love to hear what the site communicates to
you and how we could better explain our values and goals."
Please email me at webmaster@ruralco.org
And finally, if you have friends
with interest in the points the SuperMarket Project is examining,
please refer them to http://www.supermarketcoop.com/eupdate.htm
so they can subscribe. Or they can simply send a blank email
message to welcome@supermarketcoop.com
and they will be added to the list. Thanks!
Next Week: Gail and I will
be adding all the images from my trip to California, as well
as the Wild Rice cookbook!
In cooperation,
Rebecca Bond
SuperMarket Project Manager
A project of The Rural Coalition
1012 14th Street NW Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 628-7160 Fax (202) 628-7165
Toll Free 1-866-RURAL-80
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