Re: first look at a scrolling News column...

[Kay Schenk]

On 01/01/2013 10:12 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:


On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Carl Marcum <cmar...@apache.org
<mailto:cmar...@apache.org>> wrote:

    On 12/31/2012 06:06 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:

        Well, I have finally put up a mockup of what a scrolling News
        column on our
        home page would look like.

        This is in the "test" area on staging at the moment.

        http://ooo-site.staging.__apache.org/test/
        <http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/test/>

        This required editing changes to the index page and a minor
        styling change
        for the home.css styles along with using an ssi for the news
        instead of two
        areas.

        For this mockup, I did take out a LOT of old news.

        Anyway, see what you think. I find the scroll bars a bit ugly
        but we may be
        able to pretty them up somehow.

        This will save the hassle we currently do with the News items
        however.


    +1

    I like it.

    Thanks for work.
    Carl


Thanks for the kudos, all.

I will see what can be done about styling for phones.

hmmm...well, double checking just now, it seems the "block' allocated 
for the scroll is now just totally ignored via my phone and just makes a 
LONG column, so maybe not so bad. At first, it cut off the bottom.

I will reconstruct with ALL the old news with this styling, and call for 
LAZY CONSENSUS on this change.

and @Rob...well I wouldn't call these stories as much as just
"announcements" I guess, so they are somewhat different than our blogs.
Maybe we do have a bit more redundancy than we need however. I would
think anything that was sent out via the announcements mail list should
perhaps be entered in the "News" as well.  Just my .02.

I will work more on styling this week.

I may actually put ALL the old news items back in -- it doesn't hurt
anything and maybe folks would just like them as some historical reference.



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