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Changes as of Monday, March 10, 2008
by James Marino

  • 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.

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