Pardon the dust
If you've been logging onto this blog over the past 18 hours, you'll have noticed formatting and templates going amok. The story is this:
Capital Beat was created on the News & Record's first generation blog template. It was sturdy but lacked certain things. In particular, it didn't have tags which you see at the bottom of the stories now.
So I asked web guru and all around good egg Mike Grossman to hook me up with the second generation template, which he has been kind enough to do but the transition process has not been an easy one.
We're getting there but there are still a few outstanding issues. The most pressing is that the blockquote style on the blog doesn't seem to function right anymore. I'm not sure whether that's a permanent issue or not.
As for the tags, they're something I've been lusting after for a while now. No, I'm not going to go back and tag the first thousand or so posts. (If you're looking for something, the handy search function on the upper right works just fine.) But from here on out, I should be able to give y'all a quicker, cleaner way to find background on a topic.
So bear with me a little bit here as we get things squared away.
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Let me know when you redesign all the blogs so they're readable.
For fun and because I'm out of town using a fairly new (Vista) laptop, I'm using IE and am stunned at how little readable space there is on an N&R blog. FFox blocks most ads; without that, there's a lot of distraction here.
Keep tagging, Mark. Your content outweighs my dissatisfaction with the blog presentation.
Posted on August 8, 2007 4:56 PM
Aw, c'mon Sue, the layout can't be that bad. I can load the site on my little Treo, which is in the remedial class of smart phones.
As for the redesign, the slightly tweaked version you see here is as far as we're going for the moment, I think.
Posted on August 9, 2007 9:56 AM