Today's Work

[Devon H. O'Dell]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 09:34 +0100, Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
> 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 agree wholeheartedly. I think part of that is us taking the initiative
to publish our own articles.

> 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

Done. Nice.

--Devon