DPO Web Site Design

I'd like to introduce myself as a member of the Netrabbit website development team. I'll be responsible for organizing content, supervising graphic design, and developing an interface that promotes the unique interactive elements of the online media. I'll rely on Clay and Fred for subject matter expertize,, and I'll bring to the team almost ten years experience writing, editing and producing content for online services. I was an original architect of the Prodigy service, the website of the Austin American Statesman (http://www.austin.360), Go West (http://www.gowest.com) and the International Interactive Communications Society (http://www.sig.net/iics)--a professional gr oup for which I serve as Austin chapter president. You can get more details and some personal dope at my personal home page: (http://www.bga.com/~kkreps). Site design properties that I would recommend for the Direct Stock Market site include: --minimal but elegant graphic design (white backgrounds, gold lettering, green-marble rules). --Clear statement of the site's purpose and what it offers at the very top of the page. --Universal access to key sections (such as portfolio tracking screen, conferences, trading floor, glossary, search function, about the Direct Stock Market). --There will be multiple layers of password protection. Each one must be preceeded by a pursuasive introduction that will show the user what value can be had by registering (e.g. a sample screen from the trading floor). --Forms should be non-redundant: If someone has registered for the first-level of access, s/he shouldn't have to re-enter the same name/company/address/phone info to register for the second-level access. That should be ported over and the registerer must only add new info (such as corporate financial info). --Charts and graphs should be used as much as possible in lieu of text. --Information should be presented as much as possible in an interactive format. For example: instead of having a document about what kind of companies are best suited for DPO, we can have an interactive self-assessment quizz that people can use to test ou t how well suited their company is for DPO. ...Well that's a long introduction. You can reach me by email at kkreps@bga.com or by phone at (512) 328-4456.

That's a great beginning, Karen. Tomorrow will be our first team meeting of the design group at NetRabbit at 8 am. We can work these ideas, plus those of John Miaso, Federico Brown, David Bluestein and myself into a blueprint for building this website. I'm Paul Terry Walhus, VP of Internet Services at NetRabbit, Austin, TX. I met Clay recently at a meeting that NetRabbit hosted and followed up by a specifications meeting at NetRabbit the following Saturday (attended by John Miaso, David Bluestein, Bill Witt and myself). I believe we have assembled a great team with the diverse skills needed to build a dpo website. I am founder of Austin's Spring (http://www.spring.com) and a variety of websites produced by NetRabbit. Check the "websites" area at http://www.spring.com and check out the NetRabbit site at http://www.netrabbit.com. NetRabbit is building a series of c ommerce enabled websites with realtime transaction processing. I'm going to take a look at http://www.realgoods.com and see what they're doing on this site. I'm looking forward to meeting with everyone in the morning for our first face to face full group meeting. I thought today's phone roundtable set the stage for our working meeting in the morning.