Leave a comment telling us about bugs, problems, or what you WE TYPING WI TH OUR TOES TOO!: Jewcy web development and design team in action!think should be different, better, or just less miserably sucky about the Jewcy site design.

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Typing with my toes,

Joey

Joey loves to party. Jewcy loves to party.

The following article is a little bit bollocks, but also somewhat good. For the record, Jewcy was the first to think of the idea of a punny Jewish name, and only much later did Heeb come along and steal the idea. We forgive them.

Party time.

The above article is morally abhorrent.

Today's Hot Wish or Complaint!:

	Joey says... When new users link from their opening e-mail, it should prompt them and link them to create a password if they haven't yet done so.
	Craig says...

Further Wishes and Complaints:

• Magazine bar as undivided list of the ten most recent leads
  
• You know what would be phat? A little designed box for "related content" to put at the bottom or side of any feature or post.
• The entries section for multi-page content is fecked. We need a clearer interface for users to browse through dialogues. Some users are confused and don't know how to use entries. [Okay, so last fix didn't quite work out. But we were getting close. Ideas for new attempt at improving presentation of multi-part content?]
• Change the color of recent posts font from gray to something else
• Still some remaining goofiness with Internet Explorer. Our header space is weirdly two-tone, and each page renders with the far left margin cut off a bit. The top nav bar doesn't have drop-downs.
• Still silly strings of spaces showing up at end of comments, like at this comment and the one above.
• Let's see how the default tagline looks with ampersands replacing the "ands." The ands seem like info redundancy (I was just reading about information theory!).
• Hey, why don't the heading tags work? Example, this page itself. "Today's Hot" and "Further Complaints" both have heading tags in the HTML, and the text shows up as such when you're editing the page with richtext. But they don't show up when published.
• The Magazine column is dead-space right now. How can we use it?
• The Recent Posts list is too short, white space below it.

Past Hot Wishes or Complaints:

	Joey says...
	Jewcy.com is still showing up as having referred people to us today in our referrers log, as well as on analytics. I'm pretty sure there's a googleable quick fix to this.
	Craig says...
	All right, I gave you what you wanted. Now every time you try to access an http://jewcy.com page it simply forwards to http://www.jewcy.com. NOW RELEASE MY FAMILY!

	Joey says...
	When people submit a private message, it gives them a blank page rather than a confirmation page. So they hit back and submit ten times. And they suffer. Confused. Uncertain. Did it go, or not?
	Craig says...
	The problem was the Subscriptions module. Upon upgrade, I disabled it and didn't re-enable it. I have done so now. I still think I'd like to remove the ability to subscribe to posts until it works the way I'd like it, however.

	Joey says...
	If a person posts anonymously, they still show up under authoring info and most recent comments thread.
	Craig says...
	Solved that problem. I eliminated the ability to post anonymously. We agreed on that a while ago, but apparently it came back.

	Joey says...
	Since Drupal update we once again have the option of replying to individual comments. Potentially problematic! for reasons discussed before.
	Craig says...
	Okay, did a modification to the comments module that oughta fix it right up...

	Joey says... We need a "more posts" link, just do it to the blog page for now. And we need a "more Jewcy Voices" link to associated page. People are finding it Herculean task to get even recent content.
	Craig says... I did it and you're ugly. I also fixed IE shit and removed it from the list. So eat a dick.

I think maybe we should put the pic of the author of a blog post or article up at the top of the page, to the right of the hed and dek. There's often a lot of white space next to hed/dek, and, especially in the blog posts, it'd be nice to highlight the personalities a bit more.

One now-apparent disadvantage of the recent-threads instead of recent-comments...if a thread has a poster who quickly responds to any new comment (which is behavior we want to encourage, of course), you only end up ever seeing that one person for that thread in the mrc. Elisa just posted to the Peter Singer thing, which is fun for all of us, and I immediately responded, and now it's just me again for that thread in the MRC, and who wants to see that shit again, and no Elisa?

The "Recent Comments" feature on the homepage was mixed up a little bit today. Previously, the 8 most recent comments were posted in chronological order. The issue was that if a single discussion was really hot, the entire section was blown out with postings on that. Who needs 8 links to the same thing?

The idea now is that the 5 most recently commented on articles appear in that section. I've already sensed some possible issues with this system, but I'm not sure they're bigger than the previous ones. Now it seems that a large degree of the comments section's personality has dissipated, as users' comment titles are no longer featured. It's always the same boring article title. Hmm. It certainly helps continuity, but does it hinder community?

Another issue. Right now, the section highlights, if you are logged in, how many of the comments in the thread are new to you. I think it's neat, and helpful, but I am concerned it might not just be easier to show how many comments exist total in that thread. From what I understand, people can do simple math pretty well. We'll keep it this way as a trial and go from there. Comments and ideas to craig@jewcy.com.

Today, Jewcy decided to launch this Development Blog to chronicle all the inside events that happen behind the scenes in the office.

We hope to make interested users aware of both the future development initiatives Jewcy intends to implement and the steps that we take along the way to their creation.

Right now, Designer Michael Morlitz and I are going through a serious redesign of the site, actually. The intention is to revamp all the fonts, some of the homepage elements, change how featured artists are promoted (e.g., not at the bottom of the site where no one looks), and much more.

Should be exciting if you get off on Jewcy updates. Which I do.