[Imc-cambridge] Website... the hand over...

[N.P. Gill]

various comments about the andymeister's email follow...

> Ok, here's the deal... Super sexy new XHTML 1.1 strict redesign... win ie6
> isn't displaying the lines in between the features... Haven't checked on
> earlier versions of win ie... Haven't checked on mac (mac people out
> there?) or linux (ditto?)... But anyway, Tar dar!

i'm using netscape/ linux and i can see lines between features.

>
> http://www.dspoke.com/im/
>
> ... of course, we need something like this...
> http://www.dspoke.com/im/index_shitandfan.html
>

this looks good for breaking news of an urgent nature.

> ... possible idea?
> http://www.dspoke.com/im/index_calright.html
>

hmmm, not so keen on this one.

> And I'm not that keen on Arial as font, so maybe...
> http://www.dspoke.com/im/index_fonts.html
>
i like this better. in my browser it just means all text is the same size. 
i think having the events calendar (and the `comments' etc underneath a 
newswire title) in smaller text just makes it unreadable.


> And I'm not particularly keen on this guy...
> http://www.dspoke.com/im/index_t2.html
>

nice one :)

>
> 1. What are the options for the little icons in the newswire? I've only
> 'done' the text and photo ones... Video?

there's a whole heap of images at this link:
http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/img/
including ones that start with the word `video'. if you want to see a 
newswire with a little video under titles go here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/
if you go to this page and look at the newswire:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/
you'll see there's also a symbol for `audio.'

>
> 2. We've got 'breaking news' and 'features' as article types on the
> homepage at the moment... Can we have another one for not quite so shouty
> but important news?
>
> 3. Can someone send me a list of the various pages and links to examples on
> the current site, then I check the code for those as well.
>

erm, not quite sure what you mean. but here's a few that occur to me:

static page:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/static/about_us.html
(particularly worth checking that the title appears in the new format. it 
doesn't in the old).

feature/ newswire:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2004/08/296732.html

archives:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/newswire/archive.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/feature/archive.html

finally can you add that `need' into `help with publishing?'. thank you my 
son.

hope that's useful for yourself. rock on, nick :)