On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
> Am 06/13/2013 09:36 AM, schrieb Andre Fischer: > > On 12.06.2013 22:06, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Am 06/12/2013 06:48 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: >>>> >>>> On 12/06/2013 Andre Fischer wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Can we have both? Some longer living, semi-'official' news and a more >>>>>> frequently changing list of recent blog posts. I find both important >>>>>> and interesting. And having blog posts listed on the main page may be >>>>>> an incentive to more people writing new posts. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Adding "Blog" to the main navigation bar is surely helpful. For >>>>> something more similar to what Andre asked for, I've just committed a >>>>> test to >>>>> http://ooo-site.staging.**apache.org/test/index.html<http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/test/index.html> >>>>> (if it gets published, no problem, it will still be in the test area). >>>>> >>>>> There you can see a block with the titles of the latest posts, good to >>>>> show immediately what the blog topics are. >>>>> >>>> >>>> That's right. One (maybe radical) idea comes into my mind: >>>> >>>> What if we stop the normal news (and the separate news webpage on >>>> ".../news/index.html") and post everything in the blog? And write some >>>> headline on the homepage? >>>> >>>> I was thinking something similar. Shouldn't all new stories go onto >>> the blog? >>> >>> And once we figure out how to update this live from the feed, I'd love >>> to split the right side into three areas, one for the most recent blog >>> posts, another for the most recent extensions and another for the most >>> recent templates. >>> >>> So in a small space we can rotate headline from the blog, as well as >>> templates, extensions, etc. >>> >> >> I like your ideas (Andrea, Marcus, Rob) in general. But >> >> - I think the distinction between blogs and news can be a good thing if >> we understand blogs more as personal opinions of individual community >> members and news as 'official' announcements. If we mix blogs and news >> then I see the danger that news will be swept out of view by the much >> more frequently written blog posts. >> > > I tend to see blog posts as news, too. Maybe with no official wording but > more informal, but still news. > So far, I feel most of our "blogs" are news really or maybe mini- press releases, so not much of a distinction in my mind. I think integrating news and blogs is a good idea, and would save both us and our readers trying to differentiate between these two points.. But, I too would like SOME way of publishing "lead ins" to some reasonable number of them to display in one side column. Off hand, I don't know how to do that, and, yes, we would need to add more "bloggers". Time to think more about these things and find examples of what we like -- both in terms of information and display. > With a clear structure of categories and a clear "signature/disclaimer" at > the end of the text it should be clear enough in which context the blog > text is - personal or official or ... > > Marcus > > > > > - Listing blog posts, extensions and templates will only work if we have >> frequent updates of extensions and templates. I have to admit that I did >> not follow those two in the past months. Is there enough traffic to talk >> about? >> >> >> >> -Andre >> >> >> >>> -Rob >>> >>> We keep going to post news also on the homepage *and* get more blog >>>> posts. >>>> >>>> Another thing: >>>> Put the x recent headlines directly between nav bar and "I want to learn >>>> more ...". Yes, that would put everything a bit lower, but we would >>>> get rid >>>> of the right side and the entire page will be much more smaller. >>>> Better for >>>> mobile devices. And the news are always on top. >>>> >>>> So a single column? >>> >>> Another idea would be to introduce jQuery and implement one of the >>> many sliders: >>> >>> http://vandelaydesign.com/**blog/tools/awesome-jquery-**sliders/<http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/awesome-jquery-sliders/> >>> >>> >>> Unless there are objections, I plan to port it to the "real" homepage >>>>> during the weekend. >>>>> >>>> >>>> For me that would be fine. >>>> >>>> Marcus >>>> >>> > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > 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 "Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from." -- Jodie Foster
