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OK, I agree. It was a bit confusing.
JoAnn
I was thinking that the date that determines active news
content is the news release date, not the date (if any) that the news is
about.
So there is no "next", there is only the current month,
plus the previous month.
For events, I proposed retaining the upcoming 12 months,
with events grouped by month. Announcements about something that is going
to occur in the future should properly go on the events page, rather than the
News page.
J.
From: JoAnn Hackos
[mailto:joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006
4:09 PM
To: Jerry Silver;
dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [dita-fa-edboard]
News/Announcements Content Requirements
News page:
I would rather see two months (current and next) on the
dynamic page, rather than previous content. By showing the current month, we
still end up with a lot of "old" news and announcements. Two months of old stuff
seems like too much.
The date of release seems easily confused with the date of
an event. Could we put the release date at the bottom and label it "release
date"?
JoAnn
Attached is an
annotated mockup for the Focus Area News and Announcements
page.
I'd like to see a
new content type for DITA announcements. The interaction model
is:
1. Authenticated
users enter new announcements, via a form. To enter a new announcement,
they click on the "Add New Announcement" link, which will be available on the
News and Announcements page, and possibly in other locations on the
site.
2. Authenticated
users can edit or delete announcements they have submitted. An
authenticated user will be able to see all the announcements they have
created, use the form to update an announcment, or select an announcement for
deletion.
3. People looking
for news/announcements visit a News/Announcements page, a dynamically generated
page that lists all relevant announcements.
A few additional
requirements:
1. The News and
Announcements page should show up to two months of announcements (the current
month and the previous month), in chronological order, grouped by
month.
2. Older events
should still be accessible via the News and Announcements Archive page.
This page should contain a link for each month; e.g. a link to December 2005,
November 2005, etc. These archived pages can be dynamically
generated, but they must be crawlable by a search engine, so
they should avoid parameters in the URL. Question: can the
News and Announcements Archive Page be dynamically generated to add a new
link each month?
Regards,
Jerry
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