Page Design :
Site Content by Section
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I. Home
- Top level news titles from any issue area
- tagged in database according to importance
- sorted by date
- Recent PolicyOptions.org web site developments
- sorted by date
II. News
- Top level news in each issue area
- may want to present with news titles sorted by news category (i.e., final regulations, available funds, grants awarded, etc.) rather than just by date as is done with the news on the Home page
- Search option
- by type (value list of options: final regulations, available funds, grants awarded, miscellaneous actions, court rulings, proposed legislation, proposed regulations, publications, meetings)
- by date
- by department
- by issue area
- by goal (value list of goals/solutions)
- Additional links from news detail pages (e.g., a final regulation is related to one or more programs, each of which is related to a public law that will have an ID for the link)
- current programs ,
- public laws, solutions,
- contacts, and
- organizations
- these links are created during the data entry process (e.g., when the data input is made on a final regulation, the relationship is made to the one or more programs that the regulation)
III. Research
- List of issue briefs in each issue and sub-issue area
- also option to searchable by issue area (value list of available issue overviews)
- detail issue brief pages will pull from several database (i.e., scope of the problem, past policy milestones, current policy summary, solutions, contacts, organizations, and glosary)
- Searchable list of available “planning trees” of policy options
- selecting title may link to manually created pages or to database generated pages (we’ll need to talk this the best approach)
- the policy option will be presented as both a graphic (preferably with embedded hot links) as well as in outline form
- the branches of the planning tree represent “policy options” (similar to the news story titles above) with the detail on each policy option available when you drill down
- Additional links from policy option detail pages
- the “policy option” detail pages will contain links to current and proposed news items (e.g., available funds, proposed legislation) and other databases (e.g., current programs, public laws)
- we will include PDF files of graphic presentation of planning trees or else they can be created as printable versions of the web page
- Additional links from issue overview detail pages handled the same as above
- Individually searchable databases
- Scope of the problem
- Public Law
- Current Program
- Contacts/Organizations
- Glossary
IV. Resources