On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Judson Dunn <cohesion@sleepyhead.org
wrote:
Those are great for long policy pages, especially for new users. It's probably one of my favorite templates in terms of usability. They might be a little too useful though, people want to use them everywhere! ;)
I don't really like template cruft in the article like that, but the idea is great. I think the first paragraph should be the same thing though. (The topic in a nutshell).
Judson
Yeah, it is a great idea.... that's why we have article introductions, right?
- causa sui
Yep! Our style of having an introductory paragraph that is a summary of the salient points of the whole article (rather than a "hook" to get people to read the whole thing) is a great editorial choice in my opinion. It also makes our content, with the API, extremely re-usable. For example, the National Library of Australia sucks in our introductory paragraph of articles about Australian newspapers for use in their newspaper digitsation project - for example, look in the top-right hand corner of their landing page for "The Argus": http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/13 (they also do a similar thing with our articles about individual authors in their book catalogue search.
-Liam [[wittylama]]
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