On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> RGB ES wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> 2013/6/11 Rob Weir >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> It is sad that it has the usual misinformation: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>> I was quite surprised to read it. At least, if a journalist had to >>> pick a >>>>>> recent blog post from the OpenOffice blog, the one about release >>> schedules >>>>>> is definitely less interesting than other recent ones... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> You should find the email of the publication's news editor and write a >>>>>>>>> polite yet firm complaint >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> Or just post a comment. Andre, did you try doing so? Maybe they will >>>>>> rectify some clear factual errors in the article. I strongly recommend >>> that >>>>>> you post your comments there and not only here on the list. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> So the best strategy is to ignore the the FUD and push accurate and >>>>>>>> useful information onto our website. That approach reaches more >>>>>>>> users, and is under our control. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> +1. Talking about sites like El Reg means promoting them, and >>> promotion >>>>>>> means more weight on search engines for those lies >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> +1, yes, it's untrue and insulting but our actions DO speak louder than >>>>> these words. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Note that the highly visible site is http://www.openoffice.org and not >>>>>> the blog; the site is linked to the blog only through a link that is >>> at the >>>>>> bottom of the page and, moreover, is hidden under a JavaScript layer. >>>>>> >>>>>> So something that we should do immediately is to create a simple block >>>>>> with the titles of our latest three blog posts (from the official >>> blog) and >>>>>> put it on the homepage. And keep it updated manually, at least when >>> it's >>>>>> worth doing so. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> A good idea! I too feel the blogs are a bit too submerged. Let's see >>> what >>>>> we can come up with for this. >>>>> >>>> >>>> How about adding it to the top-nav, where we currently have: >>>> >>>> Product >>>> Download >>>> Support >>>> Extend >>>> Develop >>>> Focus Areas >>>> Native Language >>>> >>>> Put a new entry there for "News" or "Blog" and have that link to the >>> blog. >>>> >>> >>> I went ahead and did this. Easily reversible if we don't like it. >>> >>> http://www.openoffice.org/ >>> >>> -Rob >>> >> >> Well...I would have preferred calling it something else besides "News" >> because now I think it's confused/associated with the left "News" items. >> > > Oh, good point. > >> When Andrea brought this up, I guess I was thinking he wanted actual Blog >> headlines listed/highlighted, but maybe the top nav bar is good if we come >> up with something a bit more "catchy". But...I got nothin. :/ >> > > The problem we have (and maybe this is not a problem but just a > different form of success) is that the blog is now updated quite > frequently, but the stories on the home page never seem to change. So > if you want news then the best place to go is the blog. > > I wonder what would happen if we moved to a single column design with > no stories on the right, but just the current menu items, but centered > on the screen? That might work better on small devices as well.
Small boxes push the new div below the buttons div. > > Or, figure out how to get the news column to trigger off of the RSS > feed of the blog, like the ASF homepage does. We discussed this once, > but never completely figured it out. The way to figure this out is to study how www.apache.org does this and emulate it. We then setup the main page to republish itself every hour. We need Infra's help for that. > > But short term, calling it "Blog" would be OK? Yes - and I would not have it be the leftmost topnav element. I would make it third or fourth - on either side of "Support". Regards, Dave > > -Rob > >> >>> >>>> Putting it in the nav will give it visibility on most website (non-wiki) >>> pages. >>>> >>>> -Rob >>>> >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> That will give more visibility to the blog articles, for both users and >>>>>> journalists. Both categories are important. And some journalists will >>>>>> hopefully share my (personal, but probably not so personal) taste on >>> which >>>>>> are the posts to be featured! >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Andrea. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org< >>> dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> MzK >>>>> >>>>> "You can't believe one thing and do another. >>>>> What you believe and what you do are the same thing." >>>>> -- Leonard Peltier >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> "You can't believe one thing and do another. >> What you believe and what you do are the same thing." >> -- Leonard Peltier > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
