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[Jon Leighton]

I've done this

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 21:22 +0100, Jon Leighton wrote:
> I suggest we do away with the main highlight for now, which would make
> everything else more obvious and get around the problem of what to put
> there. Then I suggest we do the following:
> 
> * Make CCTV span two highlight slots (sorry but I can't find an easy way
> to embed a "menu" to scroll through other videos, though the current
> embed does allow you to do this but it's a bit obscure)
> 
> * Make the other two highlights be a link to the photos from the camp
> and a link to the Crude Awakening site. Again with the photos it's
> unfortunately not an instant job to have a scrolling thingy.
> 
> * Leave the rest as is. I think the blog excerpts are long enough
> personally, I don't think we should be having huge swathes of text on
> the home page.
> 
> * We could add some more events though. There must be more events
> upcoming...
> 
> I'd appreciate quick feedback as possible as I have time to do this
> tonight.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 18:24 +0100, Jonathan Stevenson wrote:
> > I've just been having a think about this and it seems clearly the case
> > that the highlights at the moment are the blog, the photos and the
> > videos. So it seems a bit weird to have to come up with some other
> > highlights because that's the structure of the site.
> > 
> > Can we not urgently introduce some flexibility into the front page
> > format to enable this? Eg. we could narrow it to three highlights and
> > make them this:
> > 
> > H1: Thumbnails of the photos, Flickr-badge style (though using
> > something open-source if possible)
> > H2: CCTV, if possible with the ability to scroll through the different
> > videos
> > H3: The blog, with longer extracts and if possible a photo. A bit more
> > like http://www.planestupid.com/
> > 
> > We could then move Press releases and Events to underneath H1 and H2.
> > 
> > J
> > 
> > Zion Lights wrote: 
> > > Sorry.. I send that to the wrong list!
> > > 
> > > On 26 August 2010 19:38, Zion Lights <zio.lights at googlemail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >         That's fine with me - should I change it here or leave you
> > >         to do it on your end? Sorry for technicality :0/ 
> > >         
> > >         
> > >         On 26 August 2010 17:12, Jon Leighton
> > >         <j at jonathanleighton.com> wrote:
> > >                 Sounds good
> > >                 
> > >                 On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:42 +0100, Richard Braude
> > >                 wrote:
> > >                 > front page:
> > >                 >
> > >                 > I suggest we change the first 2 highlights to:
> > >                 > H1: http://www.crudeawakening.org.uk/
> > >                 > H2:
> > >                 http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/press/2010/08/23/rbs-operations-closed-for-the-day-as-activists-target-sites-around-edinburgh
> > >                 >
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