Website Tools Update
[Updated 23.45, 18-01-07]
You may have noticed some changes to the Scribo Ergo Sum website. The slight modifications to the layout have been made to allow for easier showing of our new video content - Video Ergo Sum is coming soon!
The “What We’re Discussing” list of categories has been reduced to a drop-down box. This has saved a lot of space from the sidebar; only a little over 1% of pageloads used the categories list, yet it was displayed on every page.
I notice that nearly 70% of readers use Firefox as their web browser. Firefox tends to be standards-compliant, and generally superior to Internet Explorer, so renders pages differently. I prefer the look and feel of IE, but use both as I see fit (meaning that I use Firefox whenever IE crashes). It has been of slight concern to me that the typeface used on the site was more difficult to read in Firefox: given that an unusually large proportion of you view the site in Firefox, I have changed it to Arial which is less prone to distortion by Firefox. Additionally, the font is now slightly bigger to facilitate reading.
When the website was reconfigured to include this blog (using the open-source Wordpress system) I ensured that all of the posts were categorised by the author, with the author’s name included in the URL. A rationalisation of this has meant that a single account will be used for all messages from the Editorial Team. This will keep the real content separate from posts such as this. Also, every post now has a photo of the author in the top-right corner. Hopefully this will help readers to identify the author quickly. We will be linking the photos to biography pages very shortly (just as soon as we’ve written them).
On a different note, we are expecting some fresh work from fresh writers soon. Watch this space.
As always, your thoughts would be appreciated.
Ali Gledhill,
Assistant Editor (Media)