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Sorry for the confusion. While working on the News page, I was looking for a press release to use as an example. The CM Conference
press release happened to be in my in-box, so I grabbed it.
I don't think we need to spend too many cycles trying to police or redirect items on the News page, though. Realistically, there are
many press releases and news articles published about conferences and about products. Just because a company lists its product on
our Products and Services page doesn't mean they can't post a press release about it on the News page as well. Just because a
conference is posted on the Events page doesn't mean a press release with details on its keynote can't be listed on the News page.
The redundancy may be less than optimal, but I don't think it's a big issue.
As for the inconsistent ordering between the News and Events pages, there's a practical reason for this. When you look at News
items, you want to see the most recent first. There is no "future" News, yet "Past" news may still be of interest. Events, on the
other hand, is the opposite. "Future" events are what people need to see. We may want to keep links to past events around for
archival purposes (especially if the conference organizers post presentations there), but if they are prominent, they'll make the
page look dated.
I'm usually all for consistency, but this is one instance where it doesn't work.
Carol
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp@leximation.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:45 PM
To: Jerry Silver
Cc: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] News/Announcements Content Requirements
Sorry to be responding so late to this ..
- What determines the difference between an event and a news/announcement item? In looking at the examples, I'd think that the CM
Strategies Conference would be an event. It seems like we'd need to clearly define what type of items go on each list. I'd think
that anything that can be attended by a group of people is an event and anything else is news/announcement.
- I'd set up both of these lists in the same chronological order, the mockups are reversed from each other.
- Will the events page handle recurring events?
...scott
Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
Jerry Silver wrote:
> 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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