Talk:Youth Writing Camp

Deb, it seems that all the websites actually link to a writer's camp webpage. There's a lot to be said for this. If you look at http://www.lclark.edu/org/firacres/ - the high school writing camp website for Lewis & Clark College, it has a lot of intrigue. It also holds true with Red Cedar's web page for the writing camps. Thus, we can build pages onto it as the writer's camp grows. Here we can play with dynamics. But a page that's informative is obviously the key page. Opening page -- what we're offering and for whom. This should be a rather cut and dry and CLEARLY designed page. Too many times I've gone to web pages for a writing camp and it takes too much work to figure out what it's for and who it's for. Other pages to link to it -- pages that sell the campus and campus offerings. The artistic qualities, the computer labs, etc. Price / Cost and what you get for it. On - line application page. Lets make it simple for people to send in their applications. Should we examine PayPal or something like that? It seems easiest to just have people send their checks in. Who Are We Page: A page that explains what our philosophy is! Parents and students need to know that this is for writers & those who are interested in writing. We need to avoid test preparation, grammar review, etc. kinds of ideas. Sometimes people get confused. I think a simple "button bar" (I have no idea if I'm describing it correctly but it's that thinamajig that you have, Deb, on the prototype vertically aligned to the left of the main page) that Simply offers what I've listed above. Home Page: Write - Link -- Young Writer's Camp + a clear and succinct description of the camp. What We Offer: This is a clear deliniation of the camps we're offering. If it's a thematic camp then we lay it out there. It's a place to clearly share what a week or two at this camp offers and what both parents and students should expect. This should gently note or clarify that we're not a test prep. org. or something like that. A good, positive description should accomplish that! Past Voices -- "snapshots" from past camp books of kids writing; pictures; and testimonials. We have some of that! How To Apply - this is an actual application. We should see about making it both a .pdf down load so people can download and print it and / or an on-line procedure too so they can fill it out and send it in electronically.

This is what I've seen that's clear and consistent throughout.

Tim