developers' center

Marvin v. Fancy

Elizabeth — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:26:42 -0700

If you go into your My Account area and use the "edit" tab to try out each of the two themes, I'd love to know what you like best about each and what you dislike about each. I like the colorful and less formal look of Fancy but I don't like the appearance of the menus. I love the Marvin menus but don't like the block styles or the header styles.

Other thoughts?

Front Page Content

Elizabeth — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:42:19 -0700

I'm starting to wonder whether it makes sense to have new forum posts show up in the center column of the front page. For one thing, they can be made to show up in the side bar blocks and might not need to be in both places.

What kind of content do you think belongs in the center column of the front page? Should forum posts go there or not? What about new web links? What about other kinds of content (book reviews, member blog entries).

User Profiles

Elizabeth — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:51:38 -0700

Should people who register get to make "profiles" (that's a built in function, but we can use it or not as we like). If so, what kinds of information should we encourage/allow people to provide? What questions should be on the profile form?

"read more" link on front page items

Elizabeth — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:48:49 -0700

Shortened versions of most content get "promoted" onto the front page
once published. Unfortunately the "read more" link is tiny and at the
end of the list of tags associated with the piece. I'd love to find a
way to build the "Read More" link into the body of the post (as is done
in Wordpress and lots of other blogs), but if not that, then to at
least make it larger and move it to the front of the tag list.

HTML coding in emails

Elizabeth — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:47:25 -0700

Right now the emails that go out from the site have visible html coding (EAW)

Syndicated blogs

Elizabeth — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:44:12 -0700

I'd like a way to give some syndicated blogs (like sexinthepublicsquare.wordpress.com) their own pages (EAW)

What kinds of content to have

Chris — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:38:41 -0700

What kind of content will we have when the site is launched? And what
kind of content can we provide on a regular basis? Are we just going
with blog entries, or do we wanna have magazine-style "feature"
articles and regular items/columns? (CAH)

Heading/headline bars

Elizabeth — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:26:45 -0700

I'm still not really thrilled with the sharpness of the heading bars (on the side blocks and on the center column items).

Also, I still want to find a way to distinguish different kinds of content from one another when they are listed in the center column. If there is a way to make the heading bars different colors and headline font sizes bigger for some kinds, that might work.

Thoughts? Suggestions?