[imc-scotland-discussion] improving the website

[Tom Morton]

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Anarcho Babe wrote:
> Hia,
> 
> it seems to me that the new website is becoming oblivious and boring people 
> off politics unless we change some things:

i salute your bluntness

> 1.) colour- scheme:
> grey is the worst colour if to keep people exited about the news and 
> information produced

Could you create a mockup in gimp or photoshop of the colour scheme you
have in mind? Or find an existing drupal theme that is close to your
idea: http://drupal.org/project/Themes ,  or work on the drupal theme
directly if possible.

> 2.) article reads
> given that none of the articles has yet had more than 200 reads, it would be 
> important to hide that information as it is embarrasingly low and hurts our 
> credibility.

sshhh :)

Only admins and editors see that information.

It is worth logging off to see how anonymous users see the site. The
submission form is simpler for them also.

> 3.) Other Press should not appear in the newswire at all imho, but go directly 
> to section with headline only to middle column other press section. It is 
> also important to demand a URL for every other press entry.

Yeah. I've done this now.

> 4.) we need to have a proper link directory not just some selected links on 
> the side, if we want to be inclusive to other non-anarchist groups, too.

Perhaps we should get rid of the links until we have decided in a
meeting which organizations merit being linked to.

>
> and so on...
> Ulla

And so on?

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Tom
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