Re: [dita-fa-edboard] FW: Comments from Michael Priestley re. front page

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

re 1:
I think separate sections for posts,
news, and blog entries would probably be most useful if easy to do

re 2:
http://dita.xml.org/blog is the target
of the "Blogs" link on the masthead. It provides a chronological
summary of blog posts - basically the "recent blog posts" or
"blog headlines" but with more info (like who made the posting).

What I would rather see is an actual
list of blogs, not blog posts - ie this list:
http://dita.xml.org/siteblogs
(although it ain't pretty :-( )

For someone to get to my (woefully un-updated)
blog right now, they need to:
1. click Blogs
2. click "View blogs by name"
(it's in smaller font under the title, right after "Post new blog
entry")
3. find my name and click on it

That's kind of obscure :-( I suspect
a lot of people right now think there is a single blog for the site, to
which anyone can post.

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

"Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>

10/12/2006 06:10 PM

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Subject	[dita-fa-edboard] FW: Comments from Michael Priestley re. front page ideas

1. I think Michael's suggestion about promoting new
Forum posts is great, but
if we add a section for "Recent activity" or "Recent posts"
to the homepage,
should it 

A) include the 10 (or so) most recent news, blogs, and forum posts under
one
subhead 
B) include the 10 (or so) posts of any kind (including new product listings,
case studies, etc.)
C) include only the Forum posts and be a third subhead under "News
headlines"
and "Blog headlines"
D) include only the Forum posts and replace the "Blog headlines"
section, since
recent blog posts appear in the right column of all pages anyway.

I believe any of the above are possible technically and won't take much
time.

2. I'm not sure I fully understand Michael's comments, but I will put this
on
our to-do list. Seth may not get to it soon, however, as his time (and
our
budget) is limited. Maybe a future Drupal version or a new blog module
will
give us what we need without paying Seth for more customization. If anyone
wants to look into that on drupal.org, please (please) go for it.

--c

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Day [mailto:dond@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:55 PM
To: Carol Geyer
Subject: Comments from Michael Priestley re. front page ideas

1:35:17 PM
              
 Don R. Day   
              



             did I need to mention something
to Carol Geyer at the
             dita.xml.org ed board call today?
1:35:56 PM
Michael Priestl...
             showing recent posts not just
recent blog entries?
1:36:17 PM
Don R. Day
             echoing recent posts up to the
main page as title links?
1:37:10 PM
Michael Priestl...
             yes, a "recent activity"
section, equivalent to the blog post
             section
1:37:17 PM
Don R. Day
             ok
1:38:13 PM
Michael Priestl...
             blog posts - still hard to navigate
as well - should still
             have req to show blogger as
part of post title in summaries,
             and the "blogs" menu
item should go to a list of blogs not to
             a compendium of all blog entries
regardless of source

             Regards,
             --
             Don Day
             Chair, OASIS DITA Technical
Committee
             IBM Lead DITA Architect
             Email: dond@us.ibm.com
             11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015,
Austin TX 78758
             Phone: +1 512-838-8550
             T/L: 678-8550

             "Where is the wisdom we
have lost in knowledge?
              Where is the knowledge
we have lost in information?"
                --T.S. Eliot


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