NEW STUFF


If you are thinking about adding elements to your front page, here are some ideas.

How does the cutline appear over a photo in a Top Tab which you may see on many sites? Check out Opacity overlay for instructions. Check this site at Northwestern University to see an example Their photography isn't as good as The Ranger's.

Click here to see how students can do the work as a team?

Draft articles will remain only searchable in the administration area until the Draft is published. Even if you try to paste the draft article into an element the article will not show up.

The reason to use the draft system is for work flow reasons. You can start writing an article in the admin area and if you are waiting on further information or multimedia you can just save it as a draft. When you obtain the information needed you can add it and publish the article.

You can grant your editors permission to upload content to the site but not give them access to publish. Everything that editor saves will be in draft mode and the online editor or editor-in-chief (or an adviser) can publish those stories as needed.

To link or not link


Why not? If the links are a service to the user.

The HTML element shown at right goes on Pulse and it links to "Intramural Sports" on the Student Life website.

Here's how it looks,  and it shows on the page as "Intramural Sports Information" and is click-able.




Another one (above) is for "Daily Editorial Cartoons" which appear on Opinion. This is a free service as are other linked sites.



A digression: A critique on College Media of the University of Kansas Kansan.

The Kansan homepage masthead meshes perfectly with the site’s other standout design statute: White does not have to equal right. Instead of sporting the traditional white backdrop, the black (or maybe absurdly dark gray?) backer to the above-the-scroll portion of the site absolutely allows the featured content to better leap out from the page. The bigger-is-better, less-is-more approach with the featured top content is also laudable. In a Web world filled with link-till-you-drop story listings, the Kansan is nicely restrained. The site sells five main stories above all others. They scroll automatically and, wonder upon wonders, they feature headers and teasers and photos actually large enough to see and fully consider.