Barry/Greg Plan
EBow.com Sort favorites by recent or order field. Maybe we could look at having a sort button at the top like you were proposing for the Sing site Suggestions page (sort by artist, sort by member, sort by song name). Whenever we wanted user control over sort, we could add this code which would add a couple of buttons at the top of that page (under the nav buttons of course)
Sing Site place for comments give both Suggestions (new) and Reels two buttons at top of sub page
video on sing site upload page for sing site and possibly separate one for friends
Overview page I've been going through our email exchange and I don't think a clear design was arrived at here. There was some discussion of having an overview page be the first thing that you got when clicked on a major link but that had the drawback of causing visitors to have to go through another page before getting to content. Another idea was to have an overview page that would show the latest in each major page and provide links and info for each category. We'd talked about adding a cat description field to each category for displaying here.
Site Search
YouTube Pick of the week
On the YouTube overview page, besides the links to the eleven category pages, I thought we might have the YouTube video "pick of the week" and maybe the last five "recently added" thumbnails. Since you're not using the description field on the YouTube page, you could use that for the pick of the week. In that case I would ignore the "no descriptions" setting.
Special categories for Artist and Lesson
Mobile site
The portable device version of the site could be very simple at first. An opening page with limited text, if any. A button for Videos (the YouTube videos). A button for Animated Lessons. A button for EBow Artists Recordings page similar to live site. Step through these videos with buttons or arrow keys like on the live site.
Latest Page
Groups the last five additions to the site in the various major categories. YouTube videos, EBowTube videos, Links, Quotes, New Artists, Pictures, etc. From this page you could jump to any section by clicking on the section header but primarily this page would be great for the repeat visitor with all the latest additions in one place. The video sections would have the typical thumbnail layout of 5 across (displaying one row - the last 5 added videos). This would be good for the latest added artists as well, using their picture. Clicking on these would launch their artist SBs. The text sections (quotes, links, maybe FAQ) would be listed vertically as on the links page itself.
iPad/HTML5 support
Move SB buttons (done on sing site)
Server Folder Structure
> Can you explain the directory structure again. Where do the following reside:
I log into the live server to get to these:
ebow.com - www/ebow.com
order.ebow.com - www/order.ebow.com
sing.com - www/sing.ebow.com
clone of order.com (used as alternative to sing.com) - www/sing.ebow.com/clone
studio.com www/sing.ebow.com
I log into the dev server to get to these:
dev site for ebow.com - usr/local/apache2/htdocs/barry/from_barry/web
dev site for order.com - usr/local/apache2/htdocs/barry/from_barry/eds