[Webteam] News on first page

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi!

Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
> >> I placed a link to Planet Squeak 2 using Feed2JS on the wwwtest site. I 
> >> looked for other RSS feeds, but I didn't find any and the Planet Squeak 
> >> RSS feed seems to be not working.
> >>
> >> Anyway, check it out.
> >
> > Mmmmm. Nifty I agree, but I am not sure this is the way to go. I think
> > it clutters the frontpage way too much. Having feeds like this in a
> > boxlet or in a separate page is fine.
> >   
> Yeah.. we've always differed on this. I think the "Welcome" section 
> should be removed. go figur.... I know I'm in the minority :-(

:)

> > But regarding the frontpage I rather think we should point to Planet
> > Squeak etc and instead only include (manually) the Really Important News
> > Items, like Squeak releases, VM releases, elections and or similar "main
> > events".
> If selected news items are what people want, we should have the news 
> team pick the important news - that's what they're good at -- and it's 
> their job.

Sure, fine with me. :)

But note that I am not "against" having a feed - I just want it to be a
bit "on the side" - easily seen and accessible, but not dominating the
first page.

regards, Göran