Re: Change in policy on News?

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>> I'd love this, but it would require a site design change.  If you
>>> remember, we'd talked about dividing the news tickers into
>> 4 parts:  News, Product
>>> Announcements, Events and Training.   However, that didn't
>> work with the
>>> design for the home page.
>>
>> How much work would it be to fix up the right column on the main page?
>>
>> Initial thoughts:
>>
>>    Get rid of the individual dates ... change it to something like:
>
> I think that's a really bad idea, for two reasons:
> 1) It's good to know the exact date, when you're a frequent browser

If you are a frequent browser, you would know what's changed sicne the
last time you visited ... and if you are interested in a headline, you
would click on it to read the whole thing, and get teh exact date at the
same time ...

> 2) We more or less *have* to keep up the throughput. And the list isn't
> "dynamic" enough - once the first entry goes in for february, it gets to
> live alone..

I was more thinking '6 most recent headlines', and if they overlap months,
so be it, you have:

News
   Jan 2006
     ...
     ...
   Dec 2006
     ...
     ...
     ...
     ...

Or do you mean we *want* to get rid of Dec News when the first one for Jan
comes along?

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