From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 11:16:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1FE16A4CE; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:16:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F78043D5F; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:16:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from [213.51.128.133] (port=57438 helo=smtp2.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D7tkI-0001Nk-Fe; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:16:26 +0100 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.72.18.239]:33444 helo=192.168.1.104) by smtp2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D7tkF-0006SK-T1; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:16:23 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: "Simon L. Nielsen" In-Reply-To: <20050306101420.GA787@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <1109957682.3926.125.camel@localhost.localdomain> <33c19bc70348d13c641c496e4c1de07c@czv.com> <1109982696.3926.148.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050306070430.GB792@zaphod.nitro.dk> <1110097928.3927.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050306101420.GA787@zaphod.nitro.dk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: SiteTronics Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:16:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1110107783.3927.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: Chris Zumbrunn cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Today's Work X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:16:28 -0000 On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 11:14 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2005.03.06 09:32:08 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 08:04 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > > > Personally I think the press section should just be removed from the > > > front page, since it's really not that interesting IMHO. > > > > I think it should be moved to a so-called `corporate' section like I was > > discussing earlier. I have received a couple whitepapers from people and > > I think that it would be really nice to get that kind of information up. > > That's also an interesting idea. > > > > If not, we should merge the news and press sections together on the > > > front page so we don't "waste" as much front page space on the press > > > section. > > > > Well, news is important. If we can get news `shorts' that would be > > Yes, I have heard from several people (hey, phk, rwatson, scottl, and > more ;) ) that they would like more "minor" news stuff to make the web > site more "alive". Certainly the status reports that Scott collects would be great reliable (in the sense that they're periodic guaranteed content) news shorts. > > really neat, because we could style them in a pretty cool way. > > What do you mean with `shorts' ? Something longer than the title, but > shorter than the description? Well, like I said in a previous mail, something (XSL macro?) that would take the news sections and shorten them to perhaps 50 to 70 words and then have a ``more'' link for the rest of the article. For the cases where we don't have a full article, just a quick heading could be used. For instance: /* NEW FREEBSD STATUS REPORT In this month's status report we take a look at Robert Watson's work on netperf and Soren's ATA stuff, bla bla bla... (More) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS SHORT bla is a new committer (ports) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS SHORT New OnLamp article about FreeBSD as webserver. (More) <-- link to OnLamp */ These news entries would have full text on a separate page or perhaps in news.html. I don't know how realistic this is, but it would be quite nice. --Devon