[Cc-webedit] website changes - proposed

[Jon Leighton]

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 01:03 +0100, Jonathan Stevenson wrote:
> On changes I think we should make to the Next Actions section:
> 
> Huntingdon Lane Camp (http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/huntington-2010)
> - Does anyone know what's happening with this? Is it an official West 
> Midlands nhood action that's ongoing? If so we should keep it in Next 
> Actions but try to get an update. Otherwise could we move this page 
> across into a blog post for the appropriate date?

I have no idea why this was ever made a page on our website. As far as I
know, this was not a "climate camp" action, and so it doesn't really
belong on our website. We wanted to promote them in the highlights in
the run up to 1st April, but I don't know why we didn't just link
directly to their own website.

I think we should remove this page.

> World People's Conference (http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/wpccc)
> - I'm not sure this quite works as a 'past action' (which goes to a 
> wider question about whether the 'action' structuring is sufficiently 
> flexible), but I guess that is the best way to deal with it. We'd need 
> someone up for converting this page, plus the blog posts and reports 
> back, into a past action section, both in terms of structuring the 
> content and then doing it in the CMS.

In the mean time I think we ought to remove this page from the menus as
it is currently confusing, and contains no "after the event"
information. (And we still have the blog posts available.)

> October Days of Action
> - We should create a 'Next Actions' page for the October days of action. 
> I'll ask the international list about this.

Cool.

> Climate Camp Cymru
> - I think we need to get feedback from CCC about this, but my feeling is 
> that we should have CCC as the fourth highlight on the front page, but 
> split the 'Next Actions' page into 2 equally sized Camp features, as 
> with the top of Past Actions, with the CCC one linking straight to the 
> CCC site.

It's not ideal to link directly to an external site as it can confuse
visitors when they click a link and end up on a different site when it
appears they are clicking an internal link. But the alternative is to
create a small page which basically links out to CCC, which means two
clicks instead of one. Neither is a great solution, but the former is
probably the least bad.

I agree about having equally sized features. I think we may as well make
the styling on next actions identical to the styling on past actions -
it doesn't really work with the "main promo" similar to the home page.

Incidentally, when we implement the events calendar on the home page, I
am envisaging that events will have its own url
(climatecamp.org.uk/events) and no longer be associated with next
actions - as I don't think that quite works.

Jon