[Cc-webedit] [networking] New Website - Design Concept!

[Jonathan Leighton]

Personally I don't think we should embed an actual video player on the
front page. I don't think there is room except for in the "highlights"
section, and it would a be ridiculously small embed there.

I think we should make Climate Camp TV a "highlight" before/during/after
camp and link through to a separate page with the player.

This is not because I don't agree the climate camp TV content is
valuable, but I think we must must must achieve a balance and diversity
of content on the front page.

Jon

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:22 +0100, Emily James wrote:
> Yes, I take the point that this new site is not just for August, and I
> was thinking short term!
> 
> I like the idea that the video player is there and can be either
> enabled (say during the week of camp) or hidden away when it's less
> desired/getting old. 
> 
> But I think that all the discussions that we had about it at the media
> team meeting on Sunday really assumed that there would be a player on
> the home page during the week of the London camp. 
> 
> Is that more workable?
> 
> E
> 
> 
> 2009/8/3 iggyp imc <iggyp.imc at googlemail.com>
>         Hi,
>         I would personally be unhappy with a 'fixed' player on the
>         front page. It means that old content can sit there and make
>         the site look stale unless updated very regularly (fine now,
>         but what about next feb when energy is low?). 
>         It can also make life difficult for users with low bandwidth,
>         mobile devices, and users without the latest version of
>         IE/FireFox. There were a great deal of problems last year with
>         flash plug ins etc...in relation to time to load the page, as
>         well as creating caching issues on proxys used on site during
>         the camp. 
>         
>         I agree that the wonderful content being created by this new
>         and shiney 'video team'. To me, it would make sense to have a
>         module/snippet that can be enabled when relevant - i.e. during
>         the camp and when new and relevant material is available, thus
>         allowing us to utilise material when we have it, and hide it
>         when it's old!!!!
>         
>         The new site is starting to look great, but let's not try and
>         stuff everything onto the front page. 
>         
>         thanks
>         iggy. 
>         
>         2009/8/3 Emily James <emily at emily-james.com>
>         
>         
>                 
>                         If Torchbox could style (if we need to) an
>                         optional video player for the main box and the
>                         smaller boxes for editors to slot in as and
>                         when required, that would be ideal. I’d prefer
>                         not to dedicate one promo slot to video –
>                         rather post video as and when we want to,
>                         sometimes we’ll want more than one video.
>                         
>                 
>                 I'd like to make the case for a standing, dedicated
>                 video slot - Climate Camp TV is going to be producing
>                 a series of short films and studio programs through
>                 out the week, so there will be a good turn over of
>                 quality films, and these can be set up to stream the
>                 best stuff automatically onto a window embeded on the
>                 home page. Plus, we will have a few films about
>                 previous camps which will be playing in the player
>                 before camp, so don't worry, it wont be empty. 
>                 
>                 The video player on the main page can then connect
>                 through to the full Climate Camp TV page (which can
>                 either be part of the main CC site, or can be
>                 independent, which ever way the website team thinks is
>                 best) And on that page one will be able to find a full
>                 range of Climate Camp related films and programmes.
>                 
>                 If it's left to a case by case basis, this seems to be
>                 under-utilising the fantastic efforts being made to
>                 generate a stream of content through the week.
>                 
>                 Thoughts?
>                 
>                 Emily
>                 
>                  
>                         Alistair
>                         
>                         
>                         
>                         2009/8/3 Neil <neil_bye at hotmail.com>
>                         
>                                 Hi
>                                  My immediate thoughts are it's too
>                                 clinical, no fun. There is far too
>                                 much text to get lost in and too many
>                                 links to take people away before
>                                 they read it all. The leading picture
>                                 might work on a leaflet but not
>                                 webpage we need something more
>                                 dynamic. I don't like the background
>                                 colour.
>                                 
>                                 In peace Neil
>                                 
>                                 
>                         
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