State Website Redesign Discussion

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT | Recorded: 2018-04-17 | Verify against current system state

Abstract¶

State advocacy department website content review for AANP redesign. Team reviews legislation/regulation pages including Voter Voice advocacy center, state practice environment maps, state fact sheets, and policy toolkit content. Key themes: simplifying text-heavy pages, creating visual navigation with icons/maps, consolidating position statements to single location, and improving the clunky accordion-style state listings. Discussion of member-protected content (state fact sheets, legislative tracking) vs public content strategy.

Key Procedures¶

• Review legislation/regulation landing page structure
• Maintain Voter Voice advocacy center integration (vendor-provided)
• Streamline state regulation landing page to visual icons
• Preserve state legislative tracking (CQ State Track vendor)
• Improve state practice environment map functionality
• Convert state fact sheets from PDF to web pages
• Consolidate policy toolkit into organized buckets
• Link position statements to single source instead of duplicating

Notable Statements¶

• 0:04:68 "From the state side, we really don't need this page."
• 0:06:44 "This page... is actually provided by an organization that we subscribe to called Voter Voice."
• 0:07:55 "We would rather see a state landing page that has a box or an icon that gets you to the state maps and state fact sheets."
• 0:09:49 "We really want it to go visual and less wordy in the first, how do I get to where I want."
• 0:17:05 "In our ideal world, if you clicked over that state, it would take you to the fact sheet PDF."
• 0:23:21 "And I think this one is terrible. My comment along the lines of it is just this huge horrible file cabinet."
• 0:44:46 "We are really looking at how to become less word heavy and how to have better content organization."

Systems & Configurations¶

Systems Mentioned¶

• Voter Voice (federal advocacy action center)
• CQ State Track (state legislation tracking vendor)
• Esri Maps (state practice environment visualization)
• Microsoft Publisher (fact sheet creation)
• Bootstrap (potential sortable table functionality)
• Joomla CMS (current website)

Specific Configurations¶

Credentials/Access Mentioned¶

• Member login for state fact sheets
• Member login for legislative tracking
• Blanca handles content publishing

Errors & Troubleshooting¶

• Issue: State practice environment accordion file clunky
• Cause: Original design trying to avoid long scroll
• Resolution: Consider sortable table or direct map-click navigation

• Timestamp: 0:18:36

• Issue: Esri map click functionality limited

• Cause: Vendor limitation on click-through to fact sheets
• Resolution: May need CMS solution or phased improvement

• Timestamp: 0:16:50

• Issue: Government Affairs Update not mobile responsive

• Cause: Newsletter formatted as HTML tables for print
• Resolution: Convert to responsive web page format

• Timestamp: 0:41:46

• Issue: Position statements duplicated across site

• Cause: Each department wanted own copy
• Resolution: Single location with links from multiple pages
• Timestamp: 0:36:58

Transcript Gaps & Quality Notes¶

• Meeting with state advocacy team: Kay, Melina, Alexandria, Sagan, Michelle Karns
• Detailed walkthrough of current state pages with keep/modify/remove decisions
• Discussion of three content buckets: Current/Trending Issues, Influence the Law, Advocacy Center
• Counterpoint views section to be removed entirely
• Government Affairs Update archive to be maintained but reformatted
• Template to be provided for department content inventory
• October 2018 target launch date mentioned