Design Initiative: Example Site for Designers - Brief

As part of our "Designers Toolkit" we are going to put up an example site to show all of Drupal cores front end output. This is to show designers what Drupal is and what it can do. I've been jamming some ideas and come up with simple site brief for this and wanted to open this up for public discussion befor we move ahead and actually build this.

I'm pasting in the whole brief as it stands right now - its a bit rough and we probably need to refine it, so your input is not only greatly appreciated but needed. BTW - if you are interested in help build this site drop me a line - skype: jmburnz, the site will live here: http://d8di.org (currently a basic D7 install with Bartik).

Try to imagine this has been jotted down by the actual organization asking for this site - that is the approach I took when writing this out. You will notice the site will require more than just Drupal core - probably Views, Views Slideshow, some sort of date and calendar features, maybe node references as well. This is OK, because almost everyone uses extra modules and features, right? So lets show this off and not limit ourselves to just core and be real about it. However, it is very important that we use all of core features that generate front end stuff - so if I missed anything please point that out first. OK, here we go:

Design Initiative Example Site Brief

Site name:

Access Adventures

Synopsis:

Access Adventures are a small organization who provide outdoor adventures for disabled youth.

Location:

Napier, New Zealand - servicing the wider Hawkes Bay district.

Membership:

• 3 full time staff.
• 65 benefactor members.
• 27 disabled youth members.

Activities:

1. Weekly adventure outings such as orienteering, bush walking, rafting, rock climbing and other activities members would normally not be able to participate in.
2. Monthly outreach meetings.

Site Requirements:

• About us page
• Contact us page
• Q&A Forum (lots of interest from other similar organizations around the world)
• Events calendar and upcoming events list for the front page
• RSS feed to push content to their Twitter and Facebook accounts (they want to use Twitterfeed)
• Event summaries - each week a new post is added with images, text, maybe even video of the weeks adventures - these are some of the sites most popular pages. These must be connected to the “Event”.
• Picture gallery
• Feed aggregation to pull in news from their sister organizations.
• Polls for fun voting on new ideas and upcoming adventure options
• Simple book module wiki for keeping information about their organization (staff, structure, AGM results etc).
• Front page: they would like to show a slide-show of interesting images from past events, a list of upcoming events, the latest poll, the 3 most recent Event Summaries and menu items for all main sites sections (about, contact, events, forum, summaries, picture gallery).
• Somewhere to show links to their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
• They want to show some contact information in the footer and a Creative Commons license.
• Must be accessible - this is very important since they are an organization serving the disabled.
• Profiles with special fields for users - real name, phone, social networking accounts, interests and hobbies, bio etc.

Budget:

There is no budget for a custom theme and they would like to work with the systems default theme to save on maintenance.