Web design and content planning for a Classical 4-2-2 Greenwich Website

[Tom]

I look forward to the day when 'A Classical Greenwich 4-2-2 Website' becomes a popular phrase in website review and criticism. It refers to a website which:
- Aims to satisfy the 4 classical web design objectives: Commodity (good functionality), Firmness (good use of web technology), Delight (good aesthetic quality) with a good Business Plan (a reason for busying oneself with the design of a website: for profit, or for personal satisfaction or for a combination of motives)
- Has 2 strands to to the web content strategy: give something away for free and charge for something else
- Integrates the 2 fundamental categories of web content, Word & Image, to sing the same song and tell the same story.

Such websites, and other ePublications, can give a high level of personal satisfaction to web publishers and web entreprenneurs.

Examples welcome! Though un-connected with Greenwich and not as good as it could be in its use of images, I like this site: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/

[David]

Tom, I really like this idea and the steam locomotive terminology ;)

Perhaps there's an eBook in this idea although goodness knows when we'd have the time to write it. Since we're going for a retro tag, maybe we should adopt a retro academic strategy - we get our students to write the book and then just put our names on the cover!

But seriously, I think it's a great model and one that can be used as an effective assessment tool.

[Tom]

Thanks David. I knew 4-2-2 was ringing a bell in my head but could not pick up the phone. So for anyone else in my position, here is the explanation:
"The 20 Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-2 locomotives were broad gauge 4-2-2 express steam locomotives built for the Bristol and Exeter Railway by the Stothert and Slaughter in Bristol. The first entered service in 1849. The Bristol and Exeter Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1876 and eight 4-2-2s survived at this time, the last being withdrawn in 1889."