The coolest thing in the new push and I forgot about it.
We now allow you to post background images of your choice!
Look on the Newspaper Info page on the Dashboard and you will see this under the logo upload. It works the same way -- you have to give us an image that matches our specs -- or we will force it. But it will then repeat as the background image behind your site.
Try it. It's really neat.
Friday, October 2, 2009
New push this week
On Thursday, we pushed an update of the site online.
We changed or updated:
* The way video is stored
* The way your archives, PDFs, school information and staff pages displayed
And we made several internal changes.
As a result of this, we made PDFs, archives and some other things disappear briefly.
Some people are unhappy with aspects of this change, so I wanted to explain why we did it and what we are doing to improve it.
Search engine optimization is a buzzword that means making a site better able to be searched by Google, Yahoo and the like. In our case, optimized the site to bring as much to the front page as possible to improve our standings in the search engines. Experience tells us that what we did improves things. The higher we appear in search results, the more traffic we get.
At least one person has told me about her unhappiness with the result. So I am discussing with my developers ways to mitigate this and not make it so intrusive. We hope to have it in place for the next push.
If you are experiencing other unpleasant experiences on the site, please let me know about them -- at support@asne.org.
We changed or updated:
* The way video is stored
* The way your archives, PDFs, school information and staff pages displayed
And we made several internal changes.
As a result of this, we made PDFs, archives and some other things disappear briefly.
Some people are unhappy with aspects of this change, so I wanted to explain why we did it and what we are doing to improve it.
Search engine optimization is a buzzword that means making a site better able to be searched by Google, Yahoo and the like. In our case, optimized the site to bring as much to the front page as possible to improve our standings in the search engines. Experience tells us that what we did improves things. The higher we appear in search results, the more traffic we get.
At least one person has told me about her unhappiness with the result. So I am discussing with my developers ways to mitigate this and not make it so intrusive. We hope to have it in place for the next push.
If you are experiencing other unpleasant experiences on the site, please let me know about them -- at support@asne.org.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Google Chrome and my.hsj.org
Some people are experiencing an issue where $0s are inserted all over the place.
We have narrowed this a little bit.
We believe it happens with people who use Google Chrome as a browser. It MAY also have something to do with copying and pasting from Google Docs, but we have not tested this yet.
The developers who did the article part of our site acknowledge a problem with Chrome and say they will be fixing it in the next release, but have given no date as to when that will be. Our developers used their code (the whole site has instances like this).
Unfortunately, this means that in the meantime, we recommend not using:
* Chrome (because of this issue)
* Safari (because of display issues and issues uploading content)
We will update this when we know more.
We have narrowed this a little bit.
We believe it happens with people who use Google Chrome as a browser. It MAY also have something to do with copying and pasting from Google Docs, but we have not tested this yet.
The developers who did the article part of our site acknowledge a problem with Chrome and say they will be fixing it in the next release, but have given no date as to when that will be. Our developers used their code (the whole site has instances like this).
Unfortunately, this means that in the meantime, we recommend not using:
* Chrome (because of this issue)
* Safari (because of display issues and issues uploading content)
We will update this when we know more.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
How's the weather?
The weather is tied to your ZIP code. If that is wrong, then we need to fix it. For our international customers this could prove problematic.
Look at your school information page and you will see the ZIP we have for you. E-MAIL support@asne.org if it's wrong.
Look at your school information page and you will see the ZIP we have for you. E-MAIL support@asne.org if it's wrong.
$0, how I loathe you
A lot of people are seeing $0 in their story text. We know this.
We also know what piece of software is causing this.
What we don't know is what the circumstances are that lead to this.
If you are experiencing this, would you please take a moment and comment (click the little x comments link below this) to with:
* The computer you're on (Windows/Mac)
* The browser you're using (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc.)
* The version of that browser (8, 5.1, etc.)
* What program you are copying and pasting from (Word, for example)
We also know what piece of software is causing this.
What we don't know is what the circumstances are that lead to this.
If you are experiencing this, would you please take a moment and comment (click the little x comments link below this) to with:
* The computer you're on (Windows/Mac)
* The browser you're using (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc.)
* The version of that browser (8, 5.1, etc.)
* What program you are copying and pasting from (Word, for example)
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