[Koha] Koha-Community Site & Press Releases

[Liz Rea]

I agree with Galen here: the more tag is helpful in keeping the home page short, but hard and fast rules almost never work out well.

Here are my (personal preference) general guidelines for using "more" based on my experiences with sites of all stripes:

1. If it requires a user to take action, describe the action, and reason for action, then put the steps required after the jump (more). Interested parties will click through.
2. If it takes up more than 2/3 of the available "above the fold" area (what is viewable on initial page load) it should probably be split up with "more"
3. Very long items (like newsletters) should use links and anchors, with only the table of contents viewable on the home page, a la the newsletter posts. 

That's just my preference, and it's very loose. I say, use your best judgement. Best part about WordPress: it's always editable later.  :)

Liz Rea
NEKLS

On Mar 3, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Galen Charlton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Nicole Engard wrote:
>> I do think we need to set a policy that no post on the Koha site be
>> too long - and that everyone use the MORE tag to shorten long posts
>> (which I did with the press release).
> 
> Use of the more tag should be encouraged, but I don't recommend that we go down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out what constitutes a post that is "too long".
> 
> I think our policies for koha-community.org should be
> 
> * short
> * clear
> * focused on encouraging broad participation
> * also, geared towards encouraging people to just jump in and fix formatting problems as they occur rather than trying set too many ground rules up front
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
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