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Proposed: The original JIRA ticket advocates to put the frontpage news in the dspace.cfg and remove the requirement to restart DSpace to see it in effect. In fact, the news feature in XMLUI is a lot less user friendly than the (albeit basic) web interface for editing news in the JSPUI. If you look at it even more broadly you could state that a DSpace frontpage is by far not as customizable as modern web portal frontpages.

Currently present in JSPUI

http://demo.dspace.org/jspui/^{Image Added}

• Top news box, can be edited in HTML in the webui
• Searchbox
• Community listing of all communities
• Sidebar: Newsbox, can be edited in HTML in the webui
• Sidebar: access to the RSS feeds

Currently present in XMLUI (Mirage)

• Top search box, has to be edited by the server admin, in a file on the server . Contents should be in DRI.
• List of all communities
• Searchbox
• Recently added submissions

Examples of changes or improvements in the community

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• Introduction text
• Contemporary news with one news item, no links to a news archive
• "At a glance" box with links to top 10 downloads and 60 most recent additions
• "Paper of the Day" box featuring one item
• A line of repository vitals: number of papers, total number of downloads, number of downloads that year

http://eprints.utas.edu.au/^{Image Removed}

• Introduction text
• Different navigation boxes, almost like a sitemap

http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/^{Image Removed}

• Elaborate recent news feature, with a short news listing & clicking on an item expands the view.
• Older news under "more research news", featuring only the headlines
• New books, featuring a thumbnail listing of books and some metadata
• Access to the RSS feeds for news
• Searchbox

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