Odds and ends …
- I’ve tweaked our front page in English yet again, getting rid of the Firefox ad, creating a new and more prominent ad for all our books (not just the most recent) and with a link to our new publications page. This has resulted in today’s labour news being much closer to the top of the page (less scrolling).
- I completed work publicizing our Peru campaign, which is lagging somewhat as it’s August. Please do what you can to help build this.
- Our popular Canadian edition has gotten a makeover in its French version, which now features French language Canada-only campaigns, French language events and some small corrections to province names.
- We’ve made some good progress on our LabourStart calendar — lots of great events added, and Edd working hard to find 13 great photos.
- Found a solution to a small problem we were having with the caption to our photo of the day feature.
- On our campaign pages, we’re now showing news in the local language first, so if you’re looking at our Peru campaign in French, in the latest news box, you’ll see the French news before the English news.
- We also had a problem with the campaign counter in the unusual situation where we may continue running a campaign in one language having shut it down in English. Now fixed, sort of.
- Edd has given me a lesson in how to prepare a book for publication in CreateSpace — we hope to have our third book ready in early September.
- Our conference organizing committee met in Berlin yesterday — we’re told it was a productive meeting and they have another one scheduled in two weeks.
- The UE has given us permission to close down its campaign on August 20th – so this is your last chance to build support …
- I’ve reviewed our “dormant languages” – the ones we set up, but which haven’t been showing any news recently. After a major push by us, we managed to revive the Italian and Portuguese editions, and there are even some signs of life in our Serbian edition. But disappointment in the Nordic countries — only the Norwegian edition is alive, and despite our best efforts, we’ve not been able to revive our once-lively Finnish edition or the Danish and Swedish editions. Will continue trying.
- Our campaigns employ a version of “responsive design” now and render better than ever on mobile phones (test this and compare what you see to what’s on the desktop). This is hugely important as a growing number of people get email messages from us on their phones and they need to see the campaigns correctly without needing to scroll horizontally. Many campaigning organizations still get this wrong, unfortunately.
- Oh, and Twitter cards is now working for us. Have a look at some of my recent tweets. You may need to click on View Summary under the tweet to see what I’ve done.
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Busy week, thanks. Esp like the design tweeking and the responsive design stuff.