Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (130 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today we created new template that is meant to create header of weekly news 
with relative clean way to change content: 
http://wiki.opensuse.org/Template:Weekly_news_header 
and
http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news is the first issue that is using new 
template. 

As you can see in a documentation section structure is very simple:

{{Weekly news header | 
|issue= |
|hottopics= |
}} 

In practice (issue 126) it looks like:

{{Weekly news header|issue=126|hottopic=
* [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/06/01/opensuse-forums-poised-to-support-the-
next-release-11-3/ openSUSE Forums Poised to Support the next Release, 11.3.]
* [http://news.opensuse.org/2010/05/31/boosters-umbrella-sprint-summary/ 
Boosters: Umbrella Sprint Summary]
* [http://michal.hrusecky.net/index.php/blog/show/MySQL-in-openSUSE-11.3.html 
Michal Hrušecký: MySQL in openSUSE 11.3]
* [http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Jun-03.html Miguel de Icaza: First 
Beta of MonoTools 2 for VisualStudio]
}}

We achieved relative clean header without a lot of formatting characters that 
can make problems to editors. 

The main reason for change was extremely large table of content that is 
created automatically, forcing readers to scroll a lot before they can see 
actual content. The table was a bigger problem then scrolling, as it mixed 
almost never changing main sections with article titles that are different in 
each issue.

To avoid this we created relative small content index on the right side 
pointing to the main Weekly news sections. In effect it is similar to real 
paper news where we can jump to the content we like by selecting second, 
middle, or last page without need to read all articles along the way.

The new index is actually better then its paper relatives, as it will bring up 
exact section that we want to read, like newspaper with colored page edge. You 
select color and you are in wanted section :) 

-- 
Regards Rajko,
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