The North Coast Journal’s new Internet home has arrived! Peek around, poke around, and file any complaints in the comments. There’s bound to be some dusty corners of this thing that still need sprucing up.
This is a top-down and head-to-toe revision of our most recent site, which was circa 2007. The first thing you’ll notice is the superclean and way more modern design, with bigger typefaces and 10 times the overall readability. All credit here is due to the marvelous Topaz Design shop in Portland, Ore., and the codin’ CSS freaks at Slice ‘n’ Dice, who implemented Ms. Topaz’s vision.
But there’s more, so much more. First: This is hosted on speedy new servers which will never groan under the weight you’ve been throwing at them lately. Also: The thing is cached out the wazoo, so you should be getting lightning-quick page loads pretty much throughout.
Again: Not everything shows up where it used to, so it might take some mental adjusting. Any problems or complaints, post them here and we’ll either set you straight or put your suggestion on our to-do list.
Enjoy!
This article appears in Fifth and Goals.
Are some of you unable to comment? This will be investigated.
I have logged out of the system, and am now attempting to post anonymously. If you see this, it worked.
Okay, this works, Hank. This new format is much better than the interim format.
Your anonymous comment has your name on it.
Your anonymous comment has your name on it.
commenting took me to the old site, but I guess it worked…
The new site looks great. Y’all should know when Hank says, “All credit here is due to…” he’s being totally humble. He’s the genius who stayed up ’til all hours housebreaking this puppy. He might not have been the designer, art-wise but he made it all work.
Can one swap to anonymity? We’ll see…
Nice work, Hank!
Sorry, but this is a case of website design FAIL.
Nice digs!
Pssst.. your “recent” articles are, in fact, not.
But I love the calendar family!
Whoops!
Yep, the “recent articles” work on every other page, but I forgot to remove the dummy from the blog pages.
Go read ’em anyway! They’re good ones!
I hate the new site. I was trying to look at the music calender and it was just a bunch of shit I don’t care for.
Where are the local blogs?
Navigation bar: Extras > Blogwatch
Or directly: http://www.northcoastjournal.com/blogwatch/.
I don’t know. It doesn’t seem to format well in Firefox. For one, the text spills out of the comment boxes. I liked the old blogwatch better, when it was on the main page of the blog. As a matter of fact, that is the reason I would visit the NCJ blog, for the blogwatch. All the new blog posts were in one neat little box for each day. I also liked having the Times-Standard’s bylined stories in one neat little box. Now that is gone. Hmmmm.
Chill out about the text scrolling outside the comments box, for freak’s sake! It’s just ’cause “northcoastjournal.com” is so long.
But I will set overflow-x to “hidden” sometime soon.
NOT a step in the right direction.
“10 times the overall readability”
please explain this. i find it distracting to read the stories now. it’s actually not comforting to the eyes at all. especially with those blue comment boxes. just get rid of them. (or maybe move them to the left of the story??
really, i don’t like the change.
me again. just need to reiterate: bad idea. i forgot to mention the “tease” to the main story for the past issue on the homepage: it is almost 350 words. don’t ask me to read 350 words and then see if i want to “read more”. i liked how an entire issue was clearly laid out. sorry, hank. i like you, not the website.
Bareader: For the complete Table of Contents for the current issue, click on the cover image on the home page. From there, you may click the “Previous Issues” button to get the ToC’s from issues past.
Or else click “archives” there in the footer of any page.
Or else click the dateline on any news or feature story to get the ToC for that issue.
Readability: Bigger type, more whitespace, faster page loads.
Sorry you’re unhappy, but you have to admit that you’re in the minority! I do note your gripes and your suggestions, though. Hopefully it’ll grow on you.
I like the new design, but don’t like that the local blog feed has been consigned to another separate page.
That’s the only nit I have to pick.
Where is Amy???
Not in the current issue, but Amy fans can always get their back-issue fix here
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/author/amy-stewart/
or here
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/section/garden/
I don’t like it. No sir, I don’t like it one little bit. It represents change and I’m against all manner of change. I’m still awaiting the return of the North Coast View.
Hank, great job.
This should be easy to fix up. The following items look like ass:
Everything else looks tight. No glaring fuckups like that other new site for that one Arcata newspaper.
You live up to your name for once, Mr. Anon.R.Nice!
Oh, and the Eye’s new site is cool too, fuck you very much.
Did you look at that site? If that Windows 98-looking scrolly text is intentional, then that shit is brilliant. I didn’t said it wasn’t cool, just fucked up.
Um, it’s called an applet, dude. And for a second there I actually thought you knew what you were talking about.
The Eye has a website? Damn you, Kevin!
Yea I’m tripping, scrolling text is bad ass. I read the new version of Netscape is about to support it.
Hey, do I have to resubscribe to the blog feed? Or have you posted nothing new since May 1? I’m so confused.
Looks like we haven’t posted anything since May 1st! Sorry, hectic week!
FYI, here are the RSS feeds currently on tap:
NCJ Blogthing:
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/feeds/blogthing/
Humboldt Blogwatch (including the Blogthing):
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/feeds/blogwatch/
North Coast Journal comments:
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/feeds/comments/
Is anyone else aching for the return of the Times-Standard headline-jacker (codename TSETSE)? If it’s just Andy, then Chesbro can buy him a freaking subscription.
OK, how do I get to where I can read a story all on one page. Please don’t make me keep clicking on page after page. I won’t do it.
All that is Paginator.page() from the paginator.py
No button for “All Pages.” Options are pages or no pages. It’s one reason Django is kinna wack without custom functions.
Y’all could just turn that shit off completely, hint hint.
GodDAMN but I gotta fix that bug so I can set DEBUG=False.
Which bug yo?
FIXED.
FlatpageFallbackMiddleware raising 500 errors. Turns out I needed a dummy 404 template, because the flatpage fallback wouldn’t fire unless 404 was successfully raised. And 404 was not successfully raised because the lack of a 404 template triggered a 500! Insane.
If you weren’t so anonymous and you weren’t such an asshole, we could have a badass Django meetup.
The fuck I ever do to you to get called an asshole?
Oh, nothing. Sorry. Honestly.
I thought you would consider it a compliment.
From most folks, I would. It’s all good tho.
The new design is only about 99.9% easier on the eye. That’s not good enough for some folks.
The new design is only about 99.9% easier on the eye. That’s not good enough for some folks.
so, you ARE capable of humor???? why not start including it in those boring, waste-of-space drawings you do?
I like the new design but can’t manage to post something on the calendar. Am I missing something?
Nevermind … I found it … it was buried between ads …
I know this company very well, I hope this company will improve a lot, I wholeheartedly support this company, this company is the best.