Preface

• When this class decided to "repurpose" something into a web-ready document, I felt this was perfect to use as a start. Yes, it was intended at first for the web, but it had fallen short so badly, that I didn't think twice in using the charter for this assignment.

If you can open up the Charter that is currently on the web and compare it to the new version I have drawn out, you can see where the changes lay.

• I added links
• Separated many parts of the text into chunks that were best set apart from the rest
• Users can click on the areas they feel they would like to know and not have to weed through all the other “stuff”.

The original charter is wordy, long, and uses the listing and bulleted lists badly, not useful for scan-ability. We require many people to read this before they enter the guild and I actually feel bad for them, since they have to sit at a screen and try to retain as much of it as they can. I hate to read it myself.

In the original there is no section for the Applicants, they are mentiond a few times. I decided to make the charter accessible to them also, instead of having them seek a member of the guild when they can easily read it off the website.

• They have a list of requirements
• They have a note from our leader
• They will know what happens after they apply to the guild

Alternates were another section I needed to add and update. We had a few rules mentioned and I decided to elaborate, set down the updated rules and regulations for them so that information was accessible.

The table on the left, which is my menu for the charter, was a slight pain in handling. When I originally put it on the right the table would move all over the page. Now it is in a fixed position on the left, unchanging from page to page.

The worst part of this assignment was filtering through all the text and chunking it into relative areas. What I did was utilize the original copy I had from it's creation in Microsoft Word, and then went line from line and cut/pasted into the Webpages. Then, as I read through what I had from the original, I deleted many lines that were cluttering the text and inserted explanations in areas that needed to be elaborated on. Then, I e-mailed the others that had helped create this text and checked for any other updates that could be added. Once that was done, I went through and pretended to my best ability to be a "new" person to the site and found what was not clear.

I also had to change the entire font from Verdana, which seemed a lot like Arial, into default. Verdana made the text about one third larger than it is in default. When that was done, I went through and highlighted key words and linked certain ones that would be useful, although most links are on the left for ease on the user.

The Raid Rules and Loot Rules section was a time killer.The original Raid and Loot Rules were almost as long as the Charter. I condensed and made sure all the main parts were still present, utilized many lists, and bulleted lists to help for scan-ability