Re: [PROTOTYPE] Can we move the elephpant photos to the footer?
| From: | Paul Dragoonis | Date: | Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:54:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PROTOTYPE] Can we move the elephpant photos to the footer? | ||
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Cool, thanks for your recent efforts on the new prototype.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Levi Morrison
>> >> <morrison.levi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> It's not really adding anything necessary, but would make great footer
>> >>> content. We could stick it just above or just below the footer. I
>> >>> wasn't around for the discussion for the elephpant photos, so I
>> >>> thought I'd ask before I moved it.
>> >>>
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>> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Elephpants were just content fillers when building the homepage (above
>> >> the fold) stuff.
>> >>
>> >> Feel free to push them down to the footer as they are not imperative
>> >> to the homepage and only provide supplementary information.
>> >>
>> >> What do you suggest to replace them, with more important above the fold
>> >> content.
>> >>
>> >> - Paul.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I suggest we move the Recent News portion of the sidebar and place it
>> > below the 2x2 grid. It would be something like the current php.net in
>> > that regard. It makes the homepage more useful to have the recent news
>> > directly on the homepage.
>>
>> I agree, this is much more useful space for the homepage.
>>
>> This is how I see it working, with semantic markup, feel free to rip
>> it apart and make it better.
>>
>> <ul class="homepage-news-items">
>> <?php foreach($newsItems as $newsItem): ?>
>> <li>
>> <p class="news-title"><?php echo
>> htmlentities($newsItem['title'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?></p>
>> <p class="news-content">
>> <?php echo
>> htmlentities(truncateNewsItem($newsItem['content'], 100), ENT_QUOTES,
>> 'UTF-8'); ?>
>> </p>
>> </li>
>> <?php endforeach; ?>
>> </ul>
>>
>> - Paul.
>
>
> I have an initial implementation of the news on the homepage, as well as
> moved the elephpants to the footer. It's all subject to change, of course,
> but the basics are there.