Post by Riley on Aug 29, 2011 17:01:36 GMT -7
Okay. Give me a little credit here. I figured out how to embed HTML. (it was actually really easy.)
That means that we can have Chat and Featured Videos again, in the more familiar sense. However, there are some differences between the old ways of Chat / Featured Video, and the new ways.
We've got some cool videos that we're showing off, and I hated that stupid 300px box that we had to fit stuff into before. What we have now is an awesome widescreen theater...sorta.
On a related note, hitting the Fullscreen button does open it up even bigger. It didn't work on the old site, but now it does.
[/li][li]Both Featured Video and Chat are more prominently displayed.[/i]
Front and center, people! No more scrolling down every stinkin' time you refresh the page or follow a link. Not to mention that visitors to our site will see our videos and chat first! That might keep them from being scared off by our stories...or it might scare them off faster.
[/li][li]They don't display on threads and boards![/i]
What? That sounds like a step backwards. I did it that way on purpose, though. Hear me out.
I did it, mostly to make our site more wieldy. The Featured Video and Chat will be displayed on the Main Page, and various other non-board pages (e.g. Recent Posts, Members' Profiles, etc.)
If you'd like me to put them on every page, I can do that. See the above poll.
However, I think this will work better in the long run. Simply open up the main page in another tab. By keeping it on one page, we avoid certain problems we used to have -- like clones of ourselves, or disappearing and reappearing during navigation.
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I'm excited for another round of Taletellers' Guild. The Featured Video and Chat (especially Chat. Thanks, Jim) made the site so much more fun. I'm excited. (Did I already say that?)
That means that we can have Chat and Featured Videos again, in the more familiar sense. However, there are some differences between the old ways of Chat / Featured Video, and the new ways.
- Featuerd Video is now much bigger.
We've got some cool videos that we're showing off, and I hated that stupid 300px box that we had to fit stuff into before. What we have now is an awesome widescreen theater...sorta.
On a related note, hitting the Fullscreen button does open it up even bigger. It didn't work on the old site, but now it does.
[/li][li]Both Featured Video and Chat are more prominently displayed.[/i]
Front and center, people! No more scrolling down every stinkin' time you refresh the page or follow a link. Not to mention that visitors to our site will see our videos and chat first! That might keep them from being scared off by our stories...or it might scare them off faster.
[/li][li]They don't display on threads and boards![/i]
What? That sounds like a step backwards. I did it that way on purpose, though. Hear me out.
I did it, mostly to make our site more wieldy. The Featured Video and Chat will be displayed on the Main Page, and various other non-board pages (e.g. Recent Posts, Members' Profiles, etc.)
If you'd like me to put them on every page, I can do that. See the above poll.
However, I think this will work better in the long run. Simply open up the main page in another tab. By keeping it on one page, we avoid certain problems we used to have -- like clones of ourselves, or disappearing and reappearing during navigation.
[/li][/ul]
I'm excited for another round of Taletellers' Guild. The Featured Video and Chat (especially Chat. Thanks, Jim) made the site so much more fun. I'm excited. (Did I already say that?)