[Cc-webedit] front page
Jonathan Stevenson
jjjstevenson at fastmail.fm
Mon Sep 13 21:29:31 UTC 2010
Someone's asked me to put the Crude Awakening video on the front page,
which I've done.
THe highlights need changing. And the text probably isn't the right
text. But can someone else propose something/do it. THanks
On 30/08/2010 10:52, Jon Leighton wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I wasn't thinking of this as a long term change, and I agree it's
> definitely not perfect, but I thought it was something pragmatic that
> responded to Jonathan's concerns about the home page for now. In a week
> or two we should probably re-instate the "main promo" and put the Crude
> Awakening in it.
>
> I'm very open to hearing alternative proposals also.
>
> Jon
>
> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 16:27 +0100, Richard Braude wrote:
>> Hey Jon,
>>
>> Only just caught up on this thread.
>> While I definitely think there were problems with what we had before,
>> I'm not sure this is the solution we should stick with.
>>
>> I think the result is that the front page looks too busy, with too
>> much text and not enough images. It also isn't immediately obvious
>> what we've just done.
>>
>> Getting rid of the highlight boxes saves us as a webteam some
>> headaches about what should be there, but I think it doesn't help
>> publicise all the amazing things that are happening. For instance,
>> Cousland is now no longer on the front page, and or the NMTB
>> newspaper, both projects which might as well get some front page
>> space.
>>
>> I think the solution might be to put a call out to get more people
>> involved in the web team to suggest material for the site and blog,
>> rather than to narrow down what we present.
>>
>> that said, I think there's no harm in experimenting with the front
>> page. I'll try and think of some alternative solutions.
>>
>> x r.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jon Leighton<j at jonathanleighton.com>
>> wrote:
>> 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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