SCN: Re: WEB: Re: Thanks for your input

[patrick]

Rod and Doug,

The pictures on the site you mentioned make such a huge difference.
Maybe most of the credit goes to the pictures of the kids, but it
really livens up the site quite a bit.

Doug, if you do have a photo from last night and would like it up,
please send it to me. It would have a lot more impact than just text
describing the 911 site. And help the rest of the homepage.

Patrick





--- Rod Clark <bb615 at scn.org> wrote:
> Doug Schuler wrote:
> > Taking a loook at our front page it seems obvious that the
> > main problem is that the featured site and other information
> > (e.g. dial-up is back in service dated August 7) is unappealing.
> > Can we use a better font and make the titles bigger -- and
> > why is everything centered?
> > 
> > Thanks though for all the work that everybody is doing --
> seriously!
> 
> Doug, 
> 
>    The front page is immeasurably better since Patrick took it
> over and began to be responsive again to what people are
> concerned about in the community.
> 
>    SCN is a significant media site. To have a front page for 10
> months that purposely did not reflect or attempt to show people
> any of the ferment of ideas that went on in Seattle around the
> many issues that our Information Providers were involved with
> during that time, or our former Information Providers, or other
> local efforts that our volunteers were involved with, was to
> deny that SCN as a media site had any worth. On the contrary -
> at any self-respecting media site, the leadership who decided to
> do away with featuring the site's content would have been asked
> to find a different site to manage the next day.
> 
>    One of the basic purposes of any medium is to take
> information that few people know about and make it much more
> widely known to a larger audience. This is especially true of
> media that are indended to reach out to the general public. This
> is what all the big TV stations, the big radio chains and cable
> chains, the big glossy magazines, the big media Web sites, do
> all day and every day. Small grassroots orgs that never or
> almost never make it into the big media are comparatively
> isolated, lack exposure, and often are overlooked by most
> people. SCN was supposed to help change that for the better, to
> let the voices of volunteers who are involved in community
> efforts be seen and heard more widely and more effectively than
> they otherwise would be.
> 
>    One of the things that went with last year's redesign was an
> attempt to get some graphics, especially photos, on the front
> page to accompany the weekly sites. If you look at some of the
> early layouts, starting at http://www.scn.org/week/000323.html,
> you can see the approximate size of the graphics used on the
> front page then.
> 
>    Maybe if you could contribute a photo of the candlelight
> procession from St. Mark's, or something of the kind, it could
> be reduced in size so go on the front page to accompany the link
> to the site. There's no reason why the front page has to be all
> text, and every reason to use more media there than just text. A
> link to a site with sound files of people speaking about this,
> for example, might be good too, if anyone has any sound files
> like that. But certainly, please ask Patrick to have a look at
> some photos if any are available.
> 
> Rod Clark
> 
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