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[Toast McFarland <toast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's cool, leave it up. I'll just change the CSS. It's minor enough and 
it looks like a known bug. Good job so far BTW, and thanks for all the work.

[begin boring-text]

The video module seems to create two nodes, one for the video and 
another for the video's description. However, the description won't be 
necessary (for now) because the actual video shown will be something 
produced specifically for the OSDF, and will likely stay up for some 
time. Any context it needs will be elsewhere on the that static front page.

The featured post that appears can't always just be the newest one 
(although sometimes we may want it to be). Since the landing page 
planned is a static front page, it needs to be content we specifically 
want up there irrespective of the blog/news items. I realize this defies 
the typical drupal arrangement. Let me know if you'd like me to clarify 
further.

Right now, the primary track we should be on is modifying this theme's 
appearance. We want to do something that approaches the one I showed 
earlier (although it doesn't have to look EXACTLY like that). That 
layout (header with links on top, split text/media area, split footer) 
is what was decided upon.

[/boring-text]

Keep rocking! We're finally getting somewhere.

On 5/1/2011 3:52 PM, dust4ngel wrote:
> also the front page (and only the front page) has a featured video 
> section (that could use some CSS edits - but only someone with FTP 
> access can make these), and only the latest published article (along 
> with a pager to see other articles).
>
> /dust
>
>
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:08 PM, dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     we now have support for video objects:
>
>     http://beta.theosdf.org/?q=node/11
>
>     note we are not just using a youtube <embed /> tag in the
>     free-text portion of an article / blog post / etc. - this is a
>     dedicated content type with a video field.  this gives us
>     significant power to list and filter content, and to manage the
>     display of video elements globally.  (if we used embed tags, we
>     would have none of these abilities.)
>
>     to add a video, go to 'Add Content' > 'Video'.
>
>     /dust
>
>
>     On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Toast McFarland
>     <toast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:toast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>         Hello all,
>
>         We have Drupal set up with a theme over at
>         http://beta.theosdf.org.
>
>         Unless there are major objections, this is the base theme
>         we're going to hack to get what we want. The very first step
>         here is to get this puppy ready for public consumption. This
>         will require specifically 3 things:
>
>           * A front landing page
>                 o will have a space for a featured video
>                 o will host the latest or a featured blog post/article
>           * A blog-listing (index) page. This is currently what we see
>         as the
>             front page.
>                 o until further notice comments will be disabled
>           * A regular template for static pages
>
>         Number 3 is the simplest one.
>
>         Keep in mind that we're taking the minimalist approach with
>         the look-and-feel of the site. I've attached a quick draft of
>         the new logo. The accent color is #2eb4fd.
>
>         So we don't run into issues, I put the code at
>         https://code.launchpad.net/~daimoneze/osdf/drupal7-theme
>         <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Edaimoneze/osdf/drupal7-theme>.
>         We should be using some kind of version control for several
>         good reasons. I'd prefer bazaar, but I'm open to others if
>         people prefer. See
>         http://wiki.theosdf.org/index.php?title=Contributing_Code. I
>         recommend setting up a simple local webserver to help
>         developing. If you aren't sure how to do this I would be happy
>         to help you.
>
>         Happy hacking!
>
>         -Toast
>
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