ok,so much for no website info tonite...here goes:
Need: Hosting w/Store, (Zazzle & CafePress have everything but the socks and lapel pins)
WordPress or other blog software - to handle things like notices, news items, etc
Dreamhost: $1.95 / month +
Unique IP Address: $3.95 / month
SSL Secure Certificate (requires Unique IP): $15.00 / year (you will need this for your store - no one wants to enter their shopping info in a non-secure page.)
Total per year (must be paid annually): $85.80
Includes "unlimited" data transfer and storage (not really any such thing, but it is bound to be somewhere in the 10TB transfer per month, 1TB storage range), MySQL, PHP, WordPress, ZenCart (shopping cart/catalog software which is set up to use PayPal as the preferred payment method), 24/7 email support, backups, daily access stats, free domain registration, DNS hosting, email (including web-based email access), email discussion groups, bulletin board software, wiki, poll software, etc.
Home Page: ME/CFS Overview/Project Description, email addy & po box @ bottom - Static page (like
http://www.evardsson.com/) while most everything else (except the store) would be in the WordPress blog software (like
http://www.evardsson.com/blog/).
Send Socks - WordPress Page
Sock Submission Guidelines (size, materials, durability &c) - WordPress Sub-Page (with next item) with custom form/db actions
Sock Submission Form
People Making Socks for People Needing Socks Made - WordPress Page
List people needing socks with their preferred motifs, colors &c - WordPress Sub-Page (with next 3 items) with custom form/db actions
List people volunteering to make socks for others with their preferred media, possibly samples
Form to request someone makes socks for you
Form to offer to make socks for someone else
See Socks
Photos - WordPress Page with custom db actions
Randomized or links to photos of individual socks & garlands on display in various places
(eventually searchable sock photos by name) - custom db-driven app
Socks on Tour - could be WP page or WP category
Schedule of upcoming displays - WP plugin "Events Calendar"
Sock News - WordPress
Sock Stories, Press Clips &c
Socking It Away: Donations and Fundraising - WordPress page
Explanation of where donations go
Donate button << PayPal has a "Donate" button option - but to use the word "Donate" you have to sign up as a non-profit and show your incorporation papers, 503(C) tax documents, etc. You can, however, use a button which says anything else ("Support the cause", "Buy me a beer", whatever)
Sock Hops - WordPress Page
Attend one: list of upcoming hops - see Events Calendar (could do custom code to display here as well)
Host one: Fundraiser Event Template - custom form/db app
Stocking Stuffers - WordPress Page
List thanking major supporters, foundation grants, corporate donations &c - custom db app
ME/CFS Community Information - WordPress Page
Links to good sites for info and services
“further info” Link to email
sockit2mecfs@gmail.com <mailto:sockit2mecfs@gmail.com>
Sock Shop - hosted store: will require that you have a method of doing order fulfillment - a warehouse, a dropship agreement with another company, etc
Sales of sock lapel pins, t-shirts, mugs and of course socks. - most of these items can be created in Zazzle, however, they do not (yet) carry socks, so that pretty much trashes the quick-and-easy way.
Sjan Evardsson
www.evardsson.com
sjan@evardsson.com