Re: New site - final(?) list of problems

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 06:06, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Omar Kilani
> > The previous method doesn't make any sense. Say you wanted to link to
> > the news section from another page (like we do in about)--not
> > only the
> > front page. With the previous method, there would be no way
> > to see the
> > 'active' news  on that secondary page. It makes no sense for
> > things to
> > disappear from the secondary page. The purpose of the front
> > page is to
> > show (at maximum) 3 latest news and event items [any news
> > item that is
> > accepted, and any event that is accepted and has a start date
> > > today,
> > limit 3.)
> >
> > The upcoming events stuff will work properly when the events
> > have dates
> > assigned. I've gone through all the events and added dates
> > and locations
> > to every single one, but I'll need to modify update.sql.
>
> If you're limiting stuff on the front page then I think you need 2
> secondary pages - one for the active-only stuff, and one archive page
> listing everything (possible not the currently active stuff). Or is that
> what you are saying (my brain is mush right now - I'm in the middle of a
> software licence audit).
>

The issue comes from the fact that, in the old method, all of the
active/latest news was always displayed on the front page, and the
secondary page was all archive info.  This makes the new design somewhat
limiting since we only get 3 entries... for example, one thing we can
accomplish with the current setup is that we can keep a note about the
most recent version of postgresql around, even months after a release,
right on the main page for folks who need that information.  With only 3
entries we're not going to be able to do that.  Another thing we can do
now is that we can let content sit for a while even when more content
comes out... for example we can leave up news about pgadmin releases for
a good month no matter how many stories come and go... in the new scheme
we are going to lose that ability. Thinking about that I think Dave's
scheme makes some sense... front page is last 3 entries by date --> more
link takes you to the list of active news items, with summaries -->
which has a link to "all news" which shows the archive page. This isn't
quite as good as what we have now, but I think it is workable.


Robert Treat
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