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

Tue Nov 27 05:48:42 PST 2007

I agree with all aboutthe Notices being very in your face. 

Surely we should be linking to campaigns like Edinburgh Chiapas though, isnt that what we're all about?

Mike<html><div><FONT size=1><STRONG>INDYMEDIA SCOTLAND </STRONG><BR>http://scotland.indymedia.org</FONT></div></html>> From: anarchobabe at fempages.org> To: imc-scotland-discussion at lists.indymedia.org> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:23:50 +0000> Subject: Re: [imc-scotland-discussion] Some wee changes to the site> > 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?? >>>>> > _______________________________________________> imc-scotland-discussion mailing list> List-Unsubscribe: imc-scotland-discussion-request at lists.indymedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-scotland-discussion> http://scotland.indymedia.org> http://www.imcscotland.org> 
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