Re: Expanding "Upcoming Events" on the Homepage

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 04:31:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > Jonathan S. Katz wrote
> >> Here are a couple of suggestions:
> >>
> >> 1. We list >= 5 events on the homepage instead of 3.)
>
> Given the way the page is laid out (with that column being shared with
> training) this is not going to be an effective use of space. We'd need
> some actual redesign not just a quick s/3/5/.
>
> > A short blurb like "showing 5 of 17 events
> > in the next 3 months - click <here> to view all of them" could point people
> > further into the bowels of the website/wiki.
>
> We've already got a "More" link for that purpose. I think the real
> problem here is that the "More" link looks like it's for more training,
> not more events. Can we just move the "More/Submit/RSS" line up above
> "Upcoming Training", so it looks like it has something to do with events?
> I think that might be a sufficient fix all by itself.

Agreed. The "More" needs to be moved, and the Events and Training need
to be split into separate pages.

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