The implementation of the new design is rolling out, with a few bumps, but mostly smoothly.
This weekend, the focus was mostly on the archives, which are transitioning from a single weekly page to daily pages. The hardest part about this is that the shear size of BroadwayStars' archive makes a typical lookup unwieldy. Here is our master lookup page: http://www.broadwaystars.com/archives.shtml.
As you can see, it has more than 3000 entries. So I had this concept of a navigation that looks like this:
Archive > [Year] > [Month] > [Day]. If someone wants to get to a specific day, they can navigate a date hierarchy. Of course, if they are looking for something and they don't know the day, they can still do a search on the upper left hand side.
Here is the nomenclature behind date organization: http://www.broadwaystars.com/news/2008/03/08/. That is straight forward, right?
Here is the entry point to the data archive: http://www.broadwaystars.com/news/year.shtml. This is all concept right now. I will try and make it pretty after it works. Ah, the beauty of not having a dev environment.
Things I know are broken:
- pages don't validate (html/css)
- IE spacing, especially on the lists, is making me nuts. (Safari and Firefox look great, use them!)
- AOL browser. I just don't know what to tell people using AOL, other than DON'T! Maybe if I fix the validation, the AOL browser will work...
- Rollups in left column do not work in IE. Shocked, I know. Use FF or Safari.
Things to do:
- update template to columnists (Ellis, Matthew, Michael, Tim, Stephen, etc...)
- kill RSS output from news section. This was a hard decision, but must be done.
- fix rollups
- go back and rewrite html to validate
Thanks for your patience.
