[@OKau] Blog post tips for au.okfn.org

[Steven De Costa]

Thanks Lachlan,

My two points are in relation to the production website, not the staging
site with the new design :) It's a content publishing task reminder rather
than a technical issue on the production site.

They'll relate to the new site design once live too.

Cheers,
Steven

*STEVEN DE COSTA *|
*EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*www.linkdigital.com.au



On 30 March 2015 at 15:33, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I'm in a conversation with OKI regards point 2, due to the new css
> failing on the featured image. They are working on it, although it would be
> great if someone on the board could nudge *their* board and ask that the
> css get prioritised. Nigel Babu has said that "Sam" will get it done when
> it's prioritised.
>
> I am torn between doing work to fix the ok.au site and waiting for the new
> css to drop without the silly bug. With GovHack coming up, I think it's
> paramount that the site look better than it does now, that it reflects the
> OKI design and that it looks lively. We are doing what we can to make it
> look lively, the design is the next hurdle.
>
> The bug in question is here:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/wordpress-theme/issues/8
>
> cheers
> L.
>
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> talk, see, and live; negative space is the impossible cellophane layer that
> drapes the known world and is invisible to all but to the most perceptive
> minds.
>
> It is possible to learn to see negative space though, in both the visual
> and imagined worlds. The first step is developing the ability to see, and
> the second is learning — as romantic poet John Keats put it — to be
> “capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any
> irritable reaching after fact & reason.”
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> Seeking Genius in Negative Space, Chris Messina
>
> https://medium.com/genius-week/seeking-genius-in-negative-space-4e7c755f641f
>
> On 30 March 2015 at 15:20, Steven De Costa <
> steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> For those posting on the blog there are two things to remember (which I
>> often forget myself):
>>
>>
>>    1. If you want the post to appear on the home page then make sure you
>>    associated it with the 'featured' category on top of any other category you
>>    select.
>>    2. At the bottom right of the post editor you can set the 'featured
>>    image'. If you don't do this then the main blog listing page ends up with
>>    blank spots where pics are expected.
>>
>>
>> To help with the latter I hope to make some generic graphics for people
>> to select from the image gallery. Happy to take requests on these too :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steven
>>
>>
>> *STEVEN DE COSTA *|
>> *EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*www.linkdigital.com.au
>>
>>
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