{"items": [{"author": "Hollis", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/632145767692?comment_id=632145977272", "anchor": "fb-632145977272", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeff, what if you created an XML template that organizers could copy and paste into their headers so that your site could pull it automatically? You could write a quick generator form that would build XML from their inputs to make it even easier.", "timestamp": "1382193456"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/632145767692?comment_id=632146291642", "anchor": "fb-632146291642", "service": "fb", "text": "@Hollis: most dance organizers aren't going to do that. Websites are either updated entirely manually, in which case this is another place to update, or are generated from a database, in which case someone would need to add support. We could probably get the second category of sites on board, but there are many more of the first category.", "timestamp": "1382193790"}, {"author": "Hollis", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/632145767692?comment_id=632146720782", "anchor": "fb-632146720782", "service": "fb", "text": "I think it would be minimal, even for the manual sites, to put it in the header. You wouldn't need to edit it regularly.", "timestamp": "1382194101"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/632145767692?comment_id=632147344532", "anchor": "fb-632147344532", "service": "fb", "text": "Many dances are put on by folk organizations that do a lot more than just contra dances. In that case it may not be wise to put all the information of the dances front and center on the first page. In that case, what is needed is a clean layout of the events using tabs or something, like \"Contra dances\", \"English dances\", \"Concerts\", \"Jams\", \"Singing events\", and the what not. Too much information on the front page may make it look jumbled and may make it harder to find if you have to scroll a lot. Personally I'd rather do an extra click or two to find info than do a lot of scrolling.", "timestamp": "1382194758"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/632145767692?comment_id=632152045112", "anchor": "fb-632152045112", "service": "fb", "text": "@Perry: \"Many dances are put on by folk organizations that do a lot more than just contra dances. In that case it may not be wise to put all the information of the dances front and center on the first page\"
Then there should be some other page that does have these things, and is the homepage for their contra dance series. Then that page can come up in searches for \"townname contra\", people can link to it, etc.", "timestamp": "1382198942"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/632145767692?comment_id=632152109982", "anchor": "fb-632152109982", "service": "fb", "text": "@Perry: \"Too much information on the front page may make it look jumbled and may make it harder to find if you have to scroll a lot.\"
Agreed. This is an amount of information that can fit on a page without scrolling, though.", "timestamp": "1382198997"}]}