[News] Re: [Webteam] Back to "The News"

[karl]

Brad Fuller skrev:
> Giovanni Corriga wrote:
>   
>> Il giorno lun, 17/04/2006 alle 07.58 -0700, Brad Fuller ha scritto:
>>   
>>     
>>> News on the front page was, I believe, not quite agreed upon. Göran
>>> didn't mind a feed to the front page, but wanted it on the side. I, on
>>> the other hand, wanted the top of the page fed with automatic news (so
>>> we didn't have to worry about having fresh news and that the front page
>>> changed as news came in.) I confess I was in the minority.
>>>
>>> If we are going to have manually edited news on the top center, I think
>>> we should make sure it's up-to-date. We have links to election news that
>>> is 2 months old. We should up date with new news or delete the election
>>> news.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Hi Brad,
>>
>> the news team is on hiatus at the moment for many different reasons, but
>> I still want to restart working on The Weekly Squeak and to create a
>> separate news site.
>>   
>>     
> That's cool.
>   
>> Meanwhile, maybe we could work on this news box in the main page. So if
>> you need/want some help, please say so.
>>
>> 	Giovanni
>>   
>>     
> I think Göran is still in charge of the front page. He wants to have a
> side box with news feeds in it.
> In any case, no matter where the feed goes, I think the team all agreed
> that we wanted to see several appropriate news feeds _somewhere_ on the
> front page. Each news feed area would show 1 or two sentences of the top
> 5(ish) news topics and then a link to each news item.
>
> But, my initial thrust of the msg was just to make sure we had the top
> center manual news current. It's too old right now.
With the current css layout it is really hard to add a box so just go 
ahead and update the news
section of the front page in the fashion Brad describes.

Karl