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[Morrus]

Ladyofdragons has very kindly written a module which displays the news in a format much like my old news page.

You can take a look here:

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=ENNews&file=index

There will also be a little menu linking to each day's news, should you miss a day.

I haven't made it public quite yet because I want to reformat all the news articles in the database so far so that they look OK in this format (if you look, you'll see that some things look a little odd - that's because when I wrote the news articles, I did so assuming they'd be displayed in the new "block" style rather than the old "bullet" style).

People will be able to view the news in whichever style they prefer.

 

[Piratecat]

Lady of Dragons totally rocks. I've taken the liberty of making her a Community Supporter, cause that's what she's doing!

 

[Khan the Warlord]

Looks good, Russ!

I noticed the comment feature wasn't on -- will they be disabled with this new look?

 

[Morrus]

Lady of Dragons totally rocks. I've taken the liberty of making her a Community Supporter, cause that's what she's doing!

That she is!

I noticed the comment feature wasn't on -- will they be disabled with this new look?

Yeah - there's no way to implement it elegantly. And I'm one of those picky perfectionists - I take care over the formatting of every item (which is why it terrifies me to let other people enter news items!).

Besides, we've never needed it before- we have a messageboard!

 

[Buttercup]

Kudos to Lady of Dragons! It looks very cool.

 

[Staffan]

Speaking of the new news site, will you eventually redirect the enworld.org address?

 

[Liquide]

Speaking of the new news site, will you eventually redirect the enworld.org address?

That is the idea Staffan, nice to see another Swede here aswell .
Just don't do as this swede does and make Moruss go insane

 

[Darraketh]

That brought a tear of joy to my eye. I am truly looking forward to the finished product. Bravo!

 

[Morrus]

It still needs tweaking, but I can't quite place my finger on where. Functionally, it's working fine (a couple of minor problems but they can be fixed). However, to my eye, it looks a lot more "messy" than my old news did.

Can anyone put their finger on it?

 

[Darraketh]

Can anyone put their finger on it?

There is less contrast. Instead of black and gray it's light gray and dark gray.

On the old page the colors served to delineate entire sections such as the sidebars in gray and the main news in the middle being in black.

On the new site the page runs together with only the titles standing out ever so slightly in light gray on darker gray.

Also the dividing lines on the old page where raised on the new page everything is more two dimensional, less visual interest. Not a bad thing but it is a noticeable difference.

The past articles bit on the right sidebar may not be necessary particularly since commenting on each article went away.

The logo not being in the traditional top left corner makes me ask, "Am I on the correct page?"