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As discussed on the dev call yesterday, I just spent some time seeing what might be adaptable from the help site's new custom theme to this work on the news site design.

I had trouble cloning the entire large help site, but I set up a posts archive page in the background that I think aligns pretty well with what the theme would show by default right now on a "blog" home page, which is basically all that we would need for the news site homepage:

https://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/posts-archive/

I changed out the header image to a Commons art image, but it doesn't cover the header area very well by default. I stopped there, because I wasn't sure how easy it would be to do further customization. Ray, do you think we could use this as the basis of a new design, the way blocks etc. work on the page? Or would it be better to start more from scratch?

Sara, maybe without doing a full mockup just yet, it might be good to know what you envision for the new design and if the simplicity of this basic homepage gets close in any way. I do like that it gets rid of the sidebar, both on the home and individual post pages. Perhaps the homepage would be good to make more visual, with featured images and a some sort of layout that isn't just linear reverse-chronological post excerpts.

Hi Colin - Just a FYI. When I created the new Help site, I made big changes to the FSE theme's templates.