New Groups Pages!

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arianek's picture

Hey Drupal fans!

I just wanted to walk you through some changes I just made to our Group's pages. Since the group was first set up, g.d.o has installed <a href="http://drupal.org/project/panels>panels to allow for more configurable user group pages, and after seeing what the LA Group and Aegir Group have done, I thought it was about time to spruce things up!

To outline what's been added:

  • Home: now has space for 2 featured nodes (manually selected) to feature "big ticket" events or anything of note, plus the usual intro at the top and view of all new posts below.

  • Events & Workshops: like the homepage, has 2 spots for featured events (manually selected), then a view of all events below.

  • Job Postings: has a view of the most recent 2 jobs posted at the top, then the handy wiki of local startups, companies, consultants, and websites that Boris started last year.

  • Recent Discussions: a view of all "discussion" type content.

  • Members: shows profile pics and usernames for our members.

I opted to leave the standard g.d.o sidebar on all the pages (I experimented with leaving it out, but realized it was useful and familiar and probably a good idea to keep).

If there is ever a lack of featurable content for the spots on the Home and Events pages we'll toss in something else to fill the space (such as the "organizer resources" block, which kind of gets lost down at the bottom of the regular sidebar to encourage people to jump in and organize things!).

Dale (as group owner) is still the only person who can edit the group description that shows on the Home page so if there's anything important you want added there, please let him know.

Hope you like the new layout and find it useful!

Comments

Great job

colincalnan's picture

Good work Ariane, so happy that there are folk out there interested in breathing some life into this group, I think it has lots of potential.

Awesome.

baronmunchowsen's picture

New layout looks great! Thanks Ariane.

Vancouver

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