[Cc-webedit] Updating the website

[Jon Leighton]

Hey Richard,

Thanks for doing this, it's great that you have some energy to move the
website forward a bit at the moment.

I'm happy to help out on the technical side. I should say that my time
until June is quite precious due to being in the final half of the final
year of my degree, and also embroiled in this stupid damn 114 court case
thing :(

So from that perspective, it would be really helpful, if you want any
changes to the code/layout/etc done, to prioritise them and I will do my
best to facilitate things.

While we're here, I'd like to pick up on the weird advert at the bottom
of the "Get Involved" page. Neil, why is that there? I think it's quite
clear that that sort of content does NOT belong on the CC website, and
there was NO discussion about this being put up. This is quite a serious
breach of trust from my perspective.

Cheers,
Jon

On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 23:08 +0000, Alistair Alexander wrote:
> 
> 
> All looks good to me. 
> 
> 
> One thing we need to consider is the past actions page - we need more
> space for actions. the obvious answer is to create another layer of 4
> highlights.
> 
> 
> On the subject of blogs, NEF are releasing a report tomorrow called
> "Growth isn’t Possible: Why rich countries need a new economic
> direction" - it can be downloaded free and they want it plugged and i
> think it could make a good blog post.
> 
> 
> Alistair
> 
> 
>  
> 
> On 24 Jan 2010, at 18:11, Richard Braude wrote:
> 
> > Hey web team,
> > 
> > So Alistair showed me how to work the CMS on Thursday, which was
> > great. I've now been through the website and made some notes on what
> > I feel needs updating/changing, which I've typed up below. I've put
> > an '(x)' next to the things I feel I can do and are seemingly
> > uncontraversial, so I'd appreciate if some of the more experienced
> > people on this list could hold off doing them for a week so that I
> > have a chance to get my hands dirty!
> > 
> > Most of the ones I've crossed are to do with content - just to
> > clarify, I'll try and not write this all myself, but try and find
> > content from elsewhere (handbook; flyers), or chase up other people
> > to help me compile new content.
> > 
> > There are some other slightly bigger changes I think would be good,
> > mainly regarding the Blog, and some proposals for the Front Page,
> > Past Actions and Next Actions.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Richard
> > __________________
> > 
> > 1. Front Page
> > 2. Blog
> > 3. Next Actions
> > 4. Past Actions front page
> > 5. Past Actions sections
> > 6. Get Involved front page
> > 7. Get Involved sections
> > 8. Blog
> > 9. Press
> > 
> > 1. Front Page
> > a Change feature text to 'Post Copenhagen'
> > b Change to non copyright image
> > c Copenhagen - what we did write up (x)
> > d Cop out camp out highlight write up (x)
> > e Climate camp tv needs new blurb with punctuation and better video
> > (x)
> > f Gathering highlight
> > 
> > 2. Blog
> > a Needs a newer blog post (x)
> > b Climate Campers Online needs to pick up Indymedia DK and other
> > blogs
> > 
> > 3. Next Actions
> > a Come to the Gathering - image, text, change the links
> > b Remove Copenhagen from the next Actions box
> > c Proposal: What about the Mainshill Solidarity camp as Ongoing?
> > d E.On F.Off needs updates (like Kingsnorth beings shelved; youtube
> > videos; Ratcliffe.) (x)
> > 
> > 4. Past Actions front page
> > a Copenhagen needs to go there
> > b Trafalgar Square write up? (x)
> > c Where do local actions like Didcott etc go?
> > d Climate Camp Scotland and Wales? Currently takes three links to
> > get to Scot, 2 to Wales, 1 for England.
> > e Proposal, putting the Past Actions in chronological order:
> > (Bigger) Copenhagen - Trafalgar Square
> > (Smaller) Swoop - Blackheath - Wales - Scotland
> > (Smaller) G20 - Kingsnorth - Heathrow - Drax
> > 
> > 5. Past Actions sections
> > a Summaries needed for each action -perhaps around 400 words, plus a
> > video (or photo if no video available) Slideshows would be good.
> > b Heathrow info is on a previous website somewhere (x)
> > c Does the same go for Drax? (x)
> > d Kingsnorth info is at old.climatecamp, just needs to be migrated
> > (though the radio link no longer works; would be good to get this up
> > again) (x)
> > e Swoop banner could change, and we need one of the subsequent
> > videos there, not Fences (x)
> > f Blackheath needs a video (x)
> > 
> > 6. Get Involved front page
> > a Needs to move emphasis to local groups (top of list, etc)
> > b About should be further up (x)
> > c the two lists don't correspond
> > d Delete the weird advert at the bottom (x)
> > e Maybe it could be more like the other front pages, with pictures
> > and jumpy text boxes?
> > 
> > 7. Get Involved sections
> > a Get Educated - could do with some politics. links? resources?
> > PDFs? (x)
> > b How we work - could have updates from the Handbook (x)
> > c Working Groups - lists don't correspond; several need updating or
> > 'archiving' (x)
> > d Local Groups - could these have blogs on them, and then aggregated
> > to the main blog?
> > e Spread the Word - this is basically the page of the Networking and
> > Outreach working groups. Perhaps they could have some input to this
> > page? (x)
> > f About Us - update text. Make Principles and Unity parts more
> > separate, and flag them up more. (x)
> > g Take Direct Action - this currently serves no functional use as a
> > page
> > h Other Events - currently just an advert for a bygone ActionAid
> > event
> > 
> > 8. Blog
> > a Aggregate from local blogs, and also working group blogs?
> > 
> > 9. Press
> > a Do we need the NUJ and Marc V things up there? (x)
> > b Could separate press stories by month to make them easier to read
> > 
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