Jackson Free Press

All: I'm playing with a new look for the JFP home page -- not a radical change, but a few new navigation features that might make regularly checking in on our content a little easier. To access the page, see:

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/beta/

Now, note that once you click away for that page you'll be back in the regular navigation...but I'm just looking to hear from y'all what you think of the new direction and whether it's working in your browsers.

AND...has everyone checked out the "flipping" version of the JFP -- click the Cover at the bottom of the site (in the footer) and you'll see the new digital version of this week's issue.

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On the page flipping version on most minimum view I cant view the top and bottom of the pages. They are cut off from view. Cant make it smaller or scroll.

herman

Oct 16 2008

What's the resolution of your screen?

Todd Stauffer

Oct 16 2008

1024 by 768 pixels

herman

Oct 16 2008

1280x1024

Little Charlie

Oct 16 2008

I'm using Google Chrome on my sister's laptop, and it works great. I'll try it on my PC later. I like the tabs at the top. Keeps me from thinking so hard. :P AND...has everyone checked out the "flipping" version of the JFP -- click the Cover at the bottom of the site (in the footer) and you'll see the new digital version of this week's issue. Yes. I. Love. It. I don't always get a hard copy, so it's a good way to see what it looks like.

LatashaWillis

Oct 16 2008

Herman: The pages should be set to 1000 wide (for two pages) and about 600px high. Can you check again with the new issue and see if that works better?

Todd Stauffer

Oct 16 2008

As long as you are playing around, is there any way to incorporate the "forum" comments into the "100 latest comments"?

Rico

Oct 16 2008

As long as you are playing around, is there any way to incorporate the "forum" comments into the "100 latest comments"? In a word: No. Which is frustrating to the point that we're actually looking at a different way of structuring reader posts -- less "forums-y" and more like a group blog that any member could post to. We'd lose some of the features of the forums script, but we'd gain total integration back into the rest of the site. I appreciate the question -- sometimes I totally forget that the forum comments are there and it'd be nice to see those threads of discussion mixed in with the other ones.

Todd Stauffer

Oct 16 2008

I do hope that you will experiment with other things then. Before the major change a few months ago, it seems like everything was in the "recent comments". Now I forget about the forum part a lot of the time- and some of the subjects being discussed there actually hold greater interest for me sometimes. Thanks for all the other stuff- I really look forward to playing around on the restaurant thing!

Rico

Oct 16 2008