Fwd: [CrisisCommons Website] changeable changes to homepage

[Deborah Shaddon]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jasmin Phua <jas.a...@gmail.com>

Date: August 20, 2010 1:59:42 AM CDT

To: crisiscomm...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: [CrisisCommons Website] changeable changes to homepage

Reply-To: crisiscomm...@googlegroups.com

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.

On 8/20/10 2:29 AM, 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 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

 

[Heatherleson]

Thanks so much. I am going to add the next post: Sara's press release.

Then, I  am going to announce to the list that I am taking blog submissions :

Wanted

Stories links about pkfloods

Great videos

Screencasts etc

I will work on community content

Thanks again

Sent by butterfly wings 

[Deborah Shaddon]

Also, we discussed that we think we need UK to get a video going (hint, hint?) this weekend.