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Re: [grubstreet] A friendlier front page

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From: Kate L Pugh
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] A friendlier front page
Date: 13:50 on 17 Aug 2002
On Fri 16 Aug 2002, Earle Martin <grubstreet@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Yes, I'll do that now.

I'm thinking now along the lines of having something like "About
Grubstreet" and/or "Contact Us" -- lots of sites have these kinds of
things so people tend to look for them.  We could put the NMS formmail
on "Contact Us" as well as the email address.

>> shall I set the list so non-subscribers need to be moderated, or not?
> 
> If it's going to be so visible, yes, that would be a good idea.

I think I'll leave it for now and change it only if we start getting
spam.  Any objections?

>> I'm just a bit fed up that no new people are contributing.
> 
> Me too. We need to go on a publicity blitz.

OK.  Ideas for where to publicise it?  Various blogs, I suppose.
I've added the URL to my news .sig, which might help a little bit.
  
>> (I'd also like a search box higher on the page so it's immediately visible.)
> 
> Good plan. Unfortunately, I seem to have hit a bug. Try pasting the
> following code into HomePage somewhere and hitting "Preview" - it
> sends me to the index of all pages, for some reason.

I tried it with Galeon -- it let me preview but not save.  So I
figured it as a browser issue and sure enough lynx Does What We Want.
I've just put a search box in the Sandbox and will put one on the
front page later when head less fuzzy and can think about design
things, unless someone else does it first.

Kake


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