[imc-scotland-discussion] Some wee changes to the site

[Anarcho Babe]

Thanks a lot. I think we should have a meeting soon. Maybe just a social over 
dinner with some chat will do?

Some Aberdonians would like to do some Indymedia stuff and invite us to come 
up and do a talk and films and training and stuff.

Maybe we should just add the Forest and ACE to the Edinburgh links. As "Save 
your Old Town" is basically a campaign without any office or regular 
meetings. And the links on top is more for people to have a starting point to 
get to know a lot of different campaigns and groups and get some info and 
action.
So I would remove the SOOT link, because its a campaign link and not an 
infrostructure as such. And if we link to campaigns then we should probably 
link to the EdinburghChiapas Group and similar, too, and then we are starting 
to take sides and so on and then would probably have to justify ourselves for 
not putting all the SWP frontgroups on either.
I like that the Unity Centre is added.

The Notices is very in your face, but the Razorwire is also doubling up for 
giving notice about Breaking and urgent news. As not much is happening in 
Scotland at the moment we might have forgotten its original function.

It would be good if we could add the original banner again on the top and also 
back up the database!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

We also lost a whole lot of pictures during the transfer to the other server, 
so we should browse the web and personal archives and have a look if we can 
replace these again.

cheerio Ulla





On Thursday 01 Nov 2007 00:36, Tom Morton wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> I took the liberty of fiddling with the appearance of the Indymedia
> Scotland site. I removed most of the 1 pixel black borders, to give a
> more modern and clean look, and removed the 'infodoc' bit from the
> lefthand side, since it is all available if you click on 'Information'
> at the top of the site. The Infoseed link in 'notices' was removed
> (since infoseed is basically dead), and a link to 'save our old town'
> added [I am not involved with SOOT]. I removed the link to INC because
> it is defunct. I hope nobody is annoyed that I did this without
> consulting anyone -- I felt things were getting stagnant and needed a
> good fiddling-with.
>
> Some things I'd like to do but feel need discussion:
>
> * The notices box is massively ugly and obtrusive, located above the
> features. I propose that links to current campaign sites and political
> groups be moved to the lefthand side, below 'Media Centers'. Big red
> 'Notices' boxes should be used sparingly.
>
> * Search results list comments above features. For example, if you
> search for 'granton' you get a huge list of (irrelevant, ranting)
> comments to an article, and only if you scroll way down to the bottom of
> the page do you get a link to the relevant article & media. <<<< I don't
> actually know how to fix this. Is search result order related to the
> order modules are loaded?? >>>>