Today's Work

[Chris Zumbrunn]

On Mar 6, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> On 2005.03.05 17:34:29 +0100, Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
>>
>>>>> o	Moved news and press to the bottom of the
>>>>> 	main content. The main content could use a
>>>>> 	change.
>>>>
>>>> Someone might argue that news and press are the reason
>>>> why they access the first page and that they do not want
>>>> to have to scroll down. Currently, they get "lost down there".
>>>> Not sure what the best solution would be. In order for the
>>>> site to scale well with different window width, we really
>>>> could keep three columns. Otherwise the readability of the
>>>> advocacy text suffers because it runs to wide.
>>>
>>> My idea was that a lot of the main content text will be removed /
>>> replaced / reworded (or a combination of all three). My idea is that
>>> the
>>> PR and News will come further to the top after doing this. Perhaps I
>>> should have left this for later; it seems a lot of people have gotten
>>> the wrong idea with this.
>>
>> I'll make a suggestion for a short reworded intro text, followed by
>> the news and press.
>
> Personally I think the press section should just be removed from the
> front page, since it's really not that interesting IMHO.
>
> If not, we should merge the news and press sections together on the
> front page so we don't "waste" as much front page space on the press
> section.

Yes, they probably could be combined. If the press section isn't
interesting, maybe we should work on that instead of removing it ;-)

I just committed a short version of the introduction text. We'll see
what that looks like the next time Devon does a build.

/czv