Announcing The Rafferty's Rules Section

We now have the Rafferty's Rules section [rafferty's XML/RSS] . This is for faster, lighter and bloggier SSR entries. There are plenty more changes too.

I am basically skewing the system, because I am publishing article length diaries. They should be in the article section, but I am too impatient to have them voted on. As a result we have me flooding the diary section with long articles, and it is stifling the quick throwaway blog entry. Avocadia has been a-pining for a diary ghetto, and the Rafferty's Rules section will now take its place as SSR's hole.

I have also made some more changes;

None of this is irreversable, so if any disagrees with it say so, I can change it back, or modify it.

One of the problems is the lack of visibility for the Rafferty's Section. I can do SSR like the newcopia style, where is has two right hand columns, but don't really want to. If anyone has any ideas here I am all ears.

Since the Rafferty's entries are small, I am going to move the comments so they are directly under the story. That will be for later on. Haven't got that far yet [done] .

cam
Permalink, Announcing The Rafferty's Rules Section, Aug 2005, cam
Guy: Thumbs up: John Wood would be chuffed! And that\'s a good photo and caption of Kasper.
Felix the Cassowary: Not visible: It needs to be made more visible. How about just having the headlines intermixed with the blurbs of the articles?
cam: The lack of visibility may be a blessing: I have dumped two extremely marginal rants in there already. Scoop doesnt make it easy to implement your idea. Blocks wont hold if statements, so the comment-head block would need to become a box. The front page stories are determined by the displaystaus flag, whereas the Rafferty\'s stufff goes to section only. It would probably be difficult and break the manner in which scoop is to be used.

At the moment, the Rafferty\'s stories are in a right hand box, section style. I might try and do it so that when you hover over the Rafferty\'s Rules link at the top of the page it displays the headlines of the most recent Rafferty\'s Rules. Would that be visible enough?

cam
Felix the Cassowary: Just a re-ordering, maybe:

Actually, I think I would be happy enough if the Rafferty\'s Rules sidebar was the top one, then there\'s the user sidebar, the SSR sidebar etc. At the moment, Rafferty\'s is just not visible given my window size (approx 820×1020).

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