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| Site News | 9th January 2011, 18:38 | |
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The last 'Site News' entry that I can find is dated August 2006, and announced the launch of the forums section of the website. Given that was four and a half years ago, and that I've been updating some stuff recently, I thought it about time the feature returned. Since then, we've gained some comics and lost some comics, including 'Team Nexus', the first comic to appear. The 'live' comics at this point are 'The FAN', 'Khatru', and 'SHiNG' with 'High Five', a relatively new comic getting that way. There are also some discussions about a new comic to join them in the unspecified future. We've also branched out into the world of podcasts, playing host to the BunnyCast, an audio extravaganza that nominally is about webcomics, and El Goonish Shive in particular, but seems to be the random musings of Dame Helen and her guests/co-hosts. We've also talked about a second podcast joining it but that has yet to materialise. Recently, I've spent most of my time focussed on two areas. The bridges site has a completely new front-end that I launched the other day, and a little new content added. This is the most popular area of the site, as far as we can tell simply due to Google listing it highly for various Pontifex related searches. As the site was a little bodged together and dated it's had a refresh and is now looking spangly. The other area I've been working on is my Book Reviews site, which has now been running for two years, on which I review every book I read (91 in 2010). I worry sometimes whether it seems selfish to dedicate most of my coding time to working on my own area, but then it is an area that I know has a lot of content now and is regularly updated. Today, I've tied it in with the blogs area so that book related blog entries, so far just cover comparisons, are mirrored in that template in a shameless attempt to reach a wider audience (which will fail as no-one goes there). At the moment it doesn't mirror comments so I might add that in future. There's also a couple of quick things that I put together over Christmas - I don't know whether they will ever see the light of day but they were a fun exercise. Anyone whose been watching the site will have spotted my recent forays into using the Glow JavaScript library, and this features heavily in both of these. The first is a mock-up of a picture gallery. This is something that's been half requested by one of our artists, and so was a proof-of-concept. The Facebook comments were just for play and the current policy is we would be sticking with our own comments system if we did launch, but probably re-written into some sort of more centralised comments system rather than the many disparate ones that exist at present. Finally, a mock-up of what a new homepage could look like. It's only for fun at the moment and isn't connected to the database at all. The animations aren't perfect in my new browser either which is a shame, but it is just a beta so hopefully will improve in future iterations. So, that's probably it for now - if I think of anything else I'll leave it in the comments. |
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