So what have we been doing? We been, sat on our backsides watching TV? Well kinda, but I’ve got a social life too, yaknow. Anyway, I’ve a preview to show you, and I hope it’s one you’ll like. These are some of the new already implemented features that are coming to TekCube.net on Christmas Day. Yeah, as you can guess things are pretty hectic. Hell, I’ve had to learn PHP in the past week to implement this – although, granted, I’ve had help. Still, 10 days left to finish this baby and it’s really coming up close. Oh, don’t worry. The new layout will be Christmassy on Christmas.
So, what’s going on? What’s new?
Paginated Image Scroller (Click image for full-size)
Paginated Page Scrollers
This is our new idea for showing you our content. Each article will appear in the ‘Latest’ category with a headline and short summary – clicking the image takes you to the article. You’ll see this on the homepage now, that’s because we implemented it into the real thing a little early. However, we’ve added in something new – we’ve added a ‘next latest articles’ box – with 3 articles per page, and 3 pages – so you have the 5 most recent in large for the first box, then the next 9 most recent in the paginated scroller – 14 articles total. We aim to post around 21 articles per week and hopefully more, so this should work out great, showing roughly the last 5 days worth of content.
Categories and the Footer
The new footer (Click for full size)
Categories aren’t something we’ve focused on a lot recently – partially because we’ve actually been optimizing for tags, before realizing the two are equally important. Also, feed users probably would like to see just technology news, or just internet news, or just business news, or just off-beat news – and because of that, we’ve implemented new feeds for Feedburner – meaning that each category has its own feed. Also, we’ve made some mashup categories that will be coming soon, like Internet + Technology, Business + Technology + Offbeat, so that you can acquire your perfect selection of news. As well as that, there’s a box that will appear beneath the paginated scrollers with 5 recent articles from 4 main categories, and a link to see all categories. This is all part of the plan to make news easier for users to find what’s relevant to their interests.
People complained about a useless footer in the current theme, so we’ve brought you this. It’s a footer with function. We hope this helps you reach your content more easily.
Breadcrumbs Navigation
Navigation via Breadcrumbs is increasingly popular – Windows Vista/7 uses it as the primary navigator. And now, we’ve implemented it. You’ll see the same links as you do now on the index page, but you’ll see on other pages something interesting…
(click for full-size)
Yeah, that’s the breadcrumb bar. It’ll help you find your way through the site, whether navigation via Tag or Category. You’ll see what I mean when it’s implemented.
These are just 3 of the many features coming to TekCube. More and more are implemented every single day, so keep your eyes peeled.
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