Re: Expanding "Upcoming Events" on the Homepage

On Aug 22, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Jonathan S. Katz
> <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Here is a proposed patch that increases the number of events shown on the home page to 5 and also moves the "More/Submit/RSS" links above "Upcoming Training"
>
> I haven't actually tested it since I don't currently have the testing
> data, but isn't this going to make the events column significantly
> "longer" than the ones to the left and right (news and planet)? Maybe
> we need to increase the number of news and planet items as well?
> (Which wouldn't be a problem, I believe, since there is nothing below
> them ont he page anyway that would get pushed down). That way it would
> be properly balanced?

Fair point - attach is a patch that extends the news and Planet postings to 7 items on the homepage, to maintain the balance.

Jonathan