[Pdweb] Re: weblog at puredata.info

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Steffen wrote:

>
> On 17/01/2007, at 17.42, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I think the most imporatant feature in the blog would be the  
>>> ability to
>>> _easily_ embed images into the posts.  This is for the showcase of
>>> works.  Other than that, it would be nice to be able to embed video,
>>
>> personally i am not totally convinced that the entire homepage  
>> should be
>> a blog.
>>
>> however, i see that it might be nice to add images
>
> I think it would be a great help to have inline images in  
> especially a showcase. Indeed an images-less showcase is possible,  
> but it would appear with out much catchy juice. And the catchy  
> juice, i think, is a great help to achieve the the goal of a  
> showcase, namely to bring the easy knowledge of what kind of things  
> that can be done with Pd to those who aren't deed into it in the  
> fist place. Blog-form or not.
>
>> the only way i know of is to put an image somewhere else and  
>> include it
>
> That should be sufficient? I mean, the blog or what ever wouldn't  
> be able to guess what picture the writer wants to put inline, so  
> some activity of getting that specific images displayed is required  
> anyway.
>
> As i'm at it: another thing i think would be of great benefit in  
> this direction is to also redesign the frontpage such that it  
> (directly) points to the showcase and the about page and the  
> "getting Pd" section (and still have the news section, of cause, so  
> it makes four bits), where the "getting Pd" section is a altered  
> version of the current Download section where there is more focus  
> on the different posable settings one (users) can have Pd.
>
> The first demand s some knowledge of Plone, which i don't have. The  
> second im planing to write in the hopes it will/can be used(?).

Maybe we could ease in the changes, start with the blog on the front  
page, then see about reorganizing things.  It seems the Plone upgrade  
will require some changes since it exposed everything in the left nav.

.hc

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