Today's Work

[Devon H. O'Dell]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 11:14 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2005.03.06 09:32:08 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 08:04 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > > Personally I think the press section should just be removed from the
> > > front page, since it's really not that interesting IMHO.
> > 
> > I think it should be moved to a so-called `corporate' section like I was
> > discussing earlier. I have received a couple whitepapers from people and
> > I think that it would be really nice to get that kind of information up.
> 
> That's also an interesting idea.
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Well, news is important. If we can get news `shorts' that would be
> 
> Yes, I have heard from several people (hey, phk, rwatson, scottl, and
> more ;) ) that they would like more "minor" news stuff to make the web
> site more "alive".

Certainly the status reports that Scott collects would be great reliable
(in the sense that they're periodic guaranteed content) news shorts.

> > really neat, because we could style them in a pretty cool way.
> 
> What do you mean with `shorts' ? Something longer than the title, but
> shorter than the description?

Well, like I said in a previous mail, something (XSL macro?) that would
take the news sections and shorten them to perhaps 50 to 70 words and
then have a ``more'' link for the rest of the article. For the cases
where we don't have a full article, just a quick heading could be used.

For instance:

/*
NEW FREEBSD STATUS REPORT

In this month's status report we take a look at Robert Watson's work on
netperf and Soren's ATA stuff, bla bla bla... (More)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

NEWS SHORT

bla is a new committer (ports)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

NEWS SHORT

New OnLamp article about FreeBSD as webserver. (More) <-- link to OnLamp
*/

These news entries would have full text on a separate page or perhaps in
news.html. I don't know how realistic this is, but it would be quite
nice.

--Devon