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May we have an expanded directory of the latest works published? I think that having only the most recent work published is a bit inconvenient, as it makes folks go searching each contributor's section in search of new stuff.
cheers!
aj
"I promise not to try not to fuck with your mind/ I promise not to mind if you go your way and i go mine/promise not to lie if i'm looking you right in your eye/promise not to try not to let you down."
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timmy
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The concept is good, but the implementation of a full directory, author by auithor, is hard. IT requires an underlying database, and we don;t see the return on effort of production.
http://iomfats.org/oddsandends/changelog.php has been there since inception of the current site design
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Hey aj!
If you click on >Change Log< on the home page, will that do what you want?
Yours
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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It's really been a simple matter of design.
At the top of the home page we keep "The newest item"
At the foot we kep that last 5 items.
And in the Change Log we keep everything back to before life was even relevant!
A lot of the site is dynamically served. You'll never notice this because it all looks like HTML, but the home page is actually a bit special and doesn't exist at all!
What we don't have is a Content Management System. And they cost a fortune, so we're not going to have one. Megaman has crafted everything to work as well and fats as it posisbly can while allowing it to be maintainable.
But, to give you an idea, when I receive a story or poem I take the following actions:- Create HTML if it was not presented in HTML
- Run the HTML through a piece of software to create XHTML (future proofing and W3C standards compliant
- Edit to remove the tags at the top all the way doen to and incluidng the BODY tag
- Replace the top segment with a "Server Side Include" and some fancy header work
- Look at awkward coding to ensure crap browsers like WebTV can read the pages eventhough we make direct provision for them anyway in the site header and navigation
- Inspect the XHTML and alter thinsg we just do not want, usually plaved there by M$oft to annoy the world
- Replace the footer of the file with a server side include for our page footer
- Upload the changed file or files
- Add (eg a new author) to the Site Navigation where needed
- Add a new entry to "Change Log
- Send out the announcement email
Now I know a Content Management System woudl ease some of that. But it would not ease enough to make it worthwhile.
Believe me we looked at the idea when the redesign happened. But it wasn't "effort effective
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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saben
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Well, there are many high quality CMSes that are free such as Movable Type, PHPNuke and Greymatter so money isn't really an issue at all. But I agree that for the limited, small updates that you make it wouldn't really be worth having to convert EVERY single update you have done in the past to a CMS format, what you have right now works quite fine, I feel. The Change Log is a little invisible, though, perhaps after the most recent update you could put a line break and a link that jumps you down the page to the 5 most recent changes and the Change Log link. Not everyone scrolls down to the bottom of a webpage, after all. Just a small link could improve user friendly-ness, although I think the site is great as it is. I know I have made comments about the message boards before, but the site itself is one thing I have very few if any complaints about at all, it is great.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
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timmy
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I have made a small change. See if you can spot it;-)
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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