News items - fix dates, add links

[IceAgeEcologist]

Joe - thanks for working on the news items. They need a couple of tweaks: 1) inserting links to relevant articles, press releases, etc. 2) correcting dates to better match date of actual event. The news program sorts by date, with most recent at top. Stop by if you have questions about either of these.

[kdburke]

News items are looking more polished now - but some may still need proper dates. Loads and loads of additional news items can be added for folks, so feel free to make some posts!

Only other fix might be the feed itself. Currently it only shows items through February 2016. Is there a way to allow it to scroll through all items older than that?

[scottsfarley93]

The news feed is limited to 10 items. We could increase the limit, or presumably, add a date filter instead of a limit filter on the news items.

[kdburke]

Ah good point. Probably not worth cluttering the page and increasing to include all items, but I might suggest a link at the bottom that takes you to an archive of all posts?

[scottsfarley93]

That could be another top-level page? With no link from nav-bar.

e.g., "/news-archive.html".

[scottsfarley93]

@kdburke want to do this or want me to do it?

[IceAgeEcologist]

I like the idea of an accordion menu like we have for Research (publications and data/vis) with the two submenus for News being 'Recent' and 'Archive'

[scottsfarley93]

@IceAgeEcologist is there a use case that you would first want to go see archived news before looking at recent news?

@kdburke looks like we'll need to do the css on another dropdown menu... :)

[IceAgeEcologist]

@scottsfarley93 I think the main use case for the archives would be ourselves - we might want to look up a link or news item that we knew wasn't in the recent section. Saves us a step.

That said, I'm not wedded to this idea and am OK with the proposal of putting the archive link at the bottom of the 'Recent' page.

[scottsfarley93]

Well I guess in either case it's just where it gets linked from, so either way we need to make the new top level page. We can just change the link location if one or the other doesn't work as expected.

[kdburke]

I created a link at the bottom of the recent news items called "News Archive" that links to all new items.

[scottsfarley93]

Nice @kdburke