changeable changes to homepage

[Chad Catacchio]

All,

I made a few changes to CrisisCommons.org as you will probably see when you go over there...

Basically the entire site as it was (with the blog on the front page) can be restored in a matter of minutes if that's what you all want me to do. 

The idea here was to provide a bridge from a place that nobody really liked to a more sustainable design that meets all of our needs. That said, with a relatively big weekend coming up, I felt that we needed to get something up that was a bit more presentable. The one thing that I couldn't quite get to work was getting the logo in there at the top - I'll try again in the morning. 

Also, I made an admin change - basically what was happening was that new users that were trying to log into the website to do posts were being sent to a kind of purgatory called dashboard.crisiscommons.org which wasn't actually anything - I moved all of the users out of that and into the main site and gave everyone at least Author status so that they should be able to do blog posts. However, if someone registered as one of the camp sites (i.e. london.crisiscommons.org) then they are not necessarily able to log into the main site. 

Anyway, as I said, if everyone hates the new (again, temporary) design, I can reverse everything in about 10 minutes or so. 

Chad

 

[Jasmin Phua]

Please keep it for now! It's minimalist but the key informational links on the left are much more prominent now than they were previously and that's the key thing. @melgorka and I will be working on a more complete version shortly so we should be able to get another iteration up next week.

[Chris Foote (Spike)]

Looks better to me Chad! Thanks for taking the time.

Spike

Chad Catacchio wrote:
> All,
>
> I made a few changes to CrisisCommons.org as you will probably see
> when you go over there...
>
> Basically the entire site as it was (with the blog on the front page)
> can be restored in a matter of minutes if that's what you all want me
> to do.
>
> The idea here was to provide a bridge from a place that nobody really
> liked to a more sustainable design that meets all of our needs. That
> said, with a relatively big weekend coming up, I felt that we needed
> to get something up that was a bit more presentable. The one thing
> that I couldn't quite get to work was getting the logo in there at the
> top - I'll try again in the morning.
>
> Also, I made an admin change - basically what was happening was that
> new users that were trying to log into the website to do posts were
> being sent to a kind of purgatory called dashboard.crisiscommons.org

> <http://dashboard.crisiscommons.org> which wasn't actually anything -

> I moved all of the users out of that and into the main site and gave
> everyone at least Author status so that they should be able to do blog
> posts. However, if someone registered as one of the camp sites (i.e.

> london.crisiscommons.org <http://london.crisiscommons.org>) then they

[Katie Filbert]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Chris Foote (Spike) <sp...@tenbus.co.uk> wrote:

Looks better to me Chad! Thanks for taking the time.

Also like it!  Thanks.

Only suggestion is to find a spot for the crisis commons logo.

-Katie
 

Spike

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[Deborah Shaddon]

yes agree, need logo back...

[CrisisCommons]

SO GREAT :) yes, a logo would be great, i think the next needs to be redone on it

so great!

like I mean, a million billion times wonderful :) 

thank you! 

[Heather Blanchard]

This weekend I'll draft up come content to help and some links that might be helpful. Can I edit this myself?

Heather

[Sara Farmer]

Hi H - nice to see you back.  Are you involved in Matt McNabb's World Bank bid for the Tiger Team?  Would be good to see how that's progressing.     Sj. --- On Fri, 20/8/10, Heather Blanchard <heatherle...@gmail.com> wrote: