[Imc-uk-useability] startpage changes Dec 06

[WietsE]

mish wrote:
>> Not necessarily most comments, but articles that we can specifically 
>> 'highlight' like a special report, very good article, nice video, etc. 
>> Again, it's breaking down the 'promoted stages' and thus making the 
>> startpage more dynamic. I quite liked this 3rd design I'd come up with 
>> where we can outline a specific article that stays on the startpage 
>> slightly longer and a photo next to it. It would be good if visually the 
>> page is nice to look at and not too serious (as in: all text). Also as 
>> there has been talk of but there still is no photo.indymedia.org, this 
>> could be a nice way of putting the spotlight on the invaluable photo 
>> work a lot of our contributors do.
>>     
>
> Actually, another idea to throw into the mix is that we could have 3
> slots for 
>
> * the latest article with photos (or images at least)
> * the latest article with audio
> * the latest article with video
>   

Yeah that's cool. I also like the feature though of showing a photo on 
the front page as it makes it look a lot nicer.

> Be good to show the different areas.  This could be modified to "the
> latest *promoted* article with XXX" to make sure we have reasonable
> quality stuff on the newswire.  
>   

It would be nice to have an area seperate from the (promoted) newswire 
for this. Like maybe 3 thumbs/symbols (photo/video/audio) across the 
middle column under the features. These could link to a specific article 
OR let's say a 'photo page' with it's promoted articles on it. Just an 
idea....

> And it should be possible to generate an image from any video posted as
> a preview - my file manager (gnome/ubuntu/edgy) does it automatically at
> any rate.  In fact we should add this to our "wanted features" list so
> that there is an image preview in articles with video - I'm sure that
> once the image resizing is done this can be implemented easily ...
>   

Yeah that's a good idea too. And the intergrated video player is 
something we should add to the list too. Do we have a list some where?

Cheers, Wietse