[IMC-US] banner and Indy.us working with local IMCs

[bradley at riseup.net]

hey everyone,

John, thanks for working on this.

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I was talking to a friend at TUSC last week and he said that 
Indymedia.us was confusing to him, and asked why there was so much 
coverage of Santa Cruz. I replied that Indymedia.us is confusing to "us" 
too (-;

We are still trying to figure out the best ways for Indymedia.us to work 
with Indymedia.org as well as local US-based IMCs. I really like that 
all links from Indymedia.us went to Santa Cruz IMC last week during 
TUSC, cuz i agree that all comments should be on the local IMC, when 
possible. However, it would be great to have a "permalink" version of 
features on Indymedia.us.  Can something be setup similar to way 
Portland has a "permalink" for all features, but not a not a place to 
comment, just a link to read more.

oh... for example, see here (-:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/316089.shtml

I also replied to my friend that yes, it has something to do with me 
being involved in the indymedia.us working group, but also that santa 
cruz imc has had good coverage of the recent actions at UCSC which are 
inspiring to people far away. I also said that people in New York see 
features from Santa Cruz IMC and then promote them on Indymedia.us, and 
he got a big smile from that.

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Ok, back to the banners.

I really like the banners we currently have!! thanks again, ana!

I too would like to see more than humans in the banners.

How about a feature article on Indymedia.us that explains where the site 
has come since November 2, 2004, a link to the Indymedia.us feature on 
Indyconference in Austin, a call out for graphic designers to create 
some banners (maybe CSS too???), and a really big call out to help 
Indymedia.us by helping your local IMC (-;

Anyone else like the idea of an 'Indymedia.us Check-In, Call Out, Feature' ?

sincerely,
Bradley

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from sc-imc's newswire today, "Administrators used the Tent U. actions 
as an example to the growing radical movement at UCSC's campus: from 
kicking recruiters out, to shutting down the campus for a day, April has 
been an amazing month.

Keep in mind that terrible police brutality has been happening in many 
communities for a long-long time and has never gotten the type of 
coverage that the Tent U. actions received."

http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17507/index.php


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john duda wrote:

>so i mocked up the site with a stretching banner:
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>http://indymedia.us/en/index_test.shtml
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>i don't think it looks all that good...(well it looks good on my
>smallish screens, but kind of silly on a huge powerbook)
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>so maybe i'll give up for now....i can go ahead and fix the accent on
>the n in espanol, but we will get fuzziness on the images since we
>have to decompress and then recompress the jpgs.  or we could try to
>get insanely tricky and float the accent over the n as a separate
>image, but i'm not sure that my css kungfu is up to that.
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>john
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>On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:05:41AM -0400, ana wrote:
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>>hey all
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>>i wish i knew how to help with this but i am uncreative when it comes 
>>to working with a one-layer jpg image off the website.
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>>as you may remember, i lost all the original files a while back.... im 
>>really sorry about this! ;-(
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>>my two cents on the width issue, i think just centering the website on 
>>the browser window would go a hell of a long way. i really dont like 
>>the mostly black banner that results when you stretch the banner.
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>>peace
>>ana
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