[Cc-webedit] New Website - Design Iteration - Video Player on Home Page?

[Jonathan Leighton]

Hi Emily,

Please could you read the archives for details about the discussion on
this?

I think we are generally happy to put video as one of the "highlights"
during the camp.

Jon

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 23:30 +0100, Emily James wrote:
> Hi Jonathan
> 
> I'm not on the 'networking' list, so I can't post there (my
> 'reply-all's to your emails are bouncing back), but I'm cc'ing media
> on this.
> 
> I'm slightly disappointed not to see a video player on the home page.
> 
> I'm sure that there is a reason?
> 
> We are planning to have a 'front page', specially hand picked feed,
> which will have only the best content that we produce, but we aim will
> post at least 3 or 4 new pieces there per-day, with shorts about the
> camp, coverage of actions, and whatever is the best from the studio
> that day. It's gonna be great stuff, and we are already getting
> various other groups and organisations signed up to carry the feed on
> their sites... 
> 
> So not sure why we don't warrant a special place on the home page?
> 
> Oh, and fyi, the current player, which is in our mock-up site
> (www.camptv.info, ignore banner, it's a place keeper)  is simply
> aggregating using tags, but once we launch, that wont be the case, it
> will be more 'selected' than that on our main page player.
> 
> E
> 
> 2009/8/12 Jonathan Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>
>         Hi all,
>         
>         Alistair and I discussed the feedback on the new design last
>         week and
>         then I fed back to the designers. I just wanted to drop an
>         email to the
>         lists so people can see where it's at now, and I can highlight
>         how
>         specific areas of feedback have been dealt with.
>         
>         I've been working furiously over the last week, and have
>         implemented the
>         main bulk of the design:
>         http://climatecamp.jonathanleighton.com/.
>         Please be aware that a lot of the links don't work, the design
>         isn't yet
>         fully implemented, and I'm not really looking for comments at
>         this
>         half-baked stage. But hopefully it is sufficient to give you
>         an idea.
>         
>         [Also note that I have currently only tested extensively in
>         Firefox,
>         other browsers, particularly IE, may not render it correctly
>         at the
>         moment.]
>         
>         Specific changes worth highlighting:
>         
>         * "Learn More" link and "About" link in footer to go through
>         to an about
>         page
>         * Responding to complaints about it being too "clinical", some
>         illustration has been added - we have the images above each
>         main menu
>         item, and the background 'watermark' illustrations.
>         * A search box added to footer
>         * Secondary and tertiary navigation added (for an example see
>         http://climatecamp.jonathanleighton.com/get-involved/national-gatherings/next)
>         * Blog page design half done:
>         http://climatecamp.jonathanleighton.com/blog/2009/06/15/sed-egestas-ante-ut-velit-sodales-ultricies
>         
>         There are specific designs for various other pages which will
>         be
>         implemented over the next few days - I'm working on this for
>         the next
>         two as well as the weekend.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Jon
>         
>         
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