Re: Give more space on Home page for Upcoming Events

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:06 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> There are currently 22 pending Events, of which 8 are between now and
> Christmas.
>
> Currently, the home page has space for 3 events. That clearly isn't
> enough to accommodate the increasing number of events that are being
> organised worldwide - especially around release time. I was going to
> arrange some 8.2 release talks in the UK, but it seems like nobody will
> ever see them until the day before they happen.

Well they can click on *more* but it actually would make more sense to
make the Upcoming Events graphic a link to the /about/eventarchive and
the same for news respectively.

> ISTM we should have space for 6-7 events at a time, plus a small
> indicator that shows how many events are not displayed (simply use some
> text to show how many others there are e.g. "37 more" rather than
> "more").

I don't really see that as useful. It would mean people have to scroll
and if they have to scroll, they are not going to see it anyway.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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