On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's is the latest/final draft for the proposed new user portal web site > home page incorporating News scrolling: > > http://www.openoffice.org/test/ > > I am invoking "lazy consensus" for this change. If I hear no complaints by > Sunday 1750 PDT, I will implement this change. >
I can see how this makes it easier to manage the news articles. Previously we kept the most recent articles on index.html and "rotated" the older ones off onto an archive page. This was a manual process, an extra set of steps. With your new SSI mechanism we just keep all of the news articles in a single SSI file, the are displayed on the home page and the user can scroll through them. So from the perspective of the author of the news stories this is a big improvement. Thanks for looking into this! However, from the perspective of the page reader, this has two liabilities: 1) Aesthetically, from a design perspective this doesn't work well, especially that scroll bar. IMHO, it does not look like a professional page. 2) Impact on page load time. As we add more stories to the SSI, especially stories with images/photos (which I'd like to start doing) the page size is going to increase. Eventually this becomes a problem and we're back to manual rotation of the stories to an archive page. Since this is the visitors first impression of the project, I wonder if it is worth exploring further to see if there is a way to address these issues? As I mentioned before, the ASF home page has a "latest activity" panel that avoids both of these problems: http://www.apache.org/ Can we copy what they do? -Rob > Thereafter all "news" items will not be added to the home page directly or > to /news/index.html, but to /news/newslist.ssi (this is a text file, not > html), LIFO order, maintaining the styling you see for other items there. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MzK > > "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." > -- Aesop
