The Next Step
So the PPT Forum is now all updated thanks to the programming knowledge of our very own Hunter. A big thanks to everyone for their patience. You’ll see now a ton of new features so enhance our forum community so two very big thumbs up!
The PPT Podcast has been renamed to the PPT Show and we’re aiming at hitting an episode recording once per week to really kick-start the talk show. I’ve installed statistic programs now to track how many downloads and streams are actually taking place. The numbers were pleasently surprising!
The PPT Sketch Oekaki has officially opened with new administrators heading up the oakaki. Congratulations guys and welcome to the PPT team!
Currently underway are plans to sort out the advertising at PPT to put into a PPT Fund so the site can be majorly developed, and plans to open up a PPT Store.
Now I’m off to fix up the main site layout.
Today, for the first time in a long while, I visited PPT, and was pleasantly surprised by the minimalist layout. It’s functional and a lot quicker to browse through; it also seems a bit less cluttered (though the gradient tabs could be toned down a bit ^^; ). However, finding articles seems to still be a confusing process :S There are several broken links in the Neopets Online sidebar module (haha, Neopets ‘2.0′ is getting to me), and when I browsed through the Featured Articles from the past, none of them were listed in an easily accessible/visible location. Where are the articles located, exactly?
I’m not hating on PPT; I understand that you have an unfathomable amount of content. So why don’t you have a quality CMS? I’d suggest Textpattern, but I haven’t actually used it yet (I’ve been having fun customizing the admin panel). I hear it’s a lot more minimal than WordPress and easier to use, and it seems like the site wouldn’t need all the plugins, etc. WP has. At the very least, creating some directories and organizing your content would be a really good idea (: Switching over to a CMS, whether WP or Txp, would create a much easier browsing experience. Plus, if you do switch over, you’ll be looking through all the pages and could delete outdated stuff.
Oh, and for testing purposes, you can always muck about at opensourcecms.com (: Great site, that one is.
I’d also like to say this: div-based layouts for the win! There is no reason PPT should be using a table-based layout for its homepage; that’s so 1999! ;P
(D: I just realized that part of this was covered in previous comments on previous blog posts. Drat. Ah well, I suppose you get another vote for switching the whole site over, then
It is summer, after all… and I’ll be a willing volunteer!)
Hello ice_creema876! Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated. PPT is currently being completely revamped so yes, the menu system is currently being worked on and things categorized properly to make navigation easier and intuitive.
Thanks for pointing out difficult areas of navigation. I’ll fix that.
I’d run a CMS but the task of switching everything over is actually very daunting. I’m quite scared lol. There’s about 2,000 pages of content and to switch everything over… my head spins just thinking about it!!
Entire layout will be switched to DIV of course. I just used tables out of force of habit.
Awesome
Heh, I bet it is ^^ But it’d turn out for the better ;D
>_> I’ll stop pestering you now
Best of luck with the revamp, I’ll be eagerly awaiting its results!
No pester haha
Comments always welcome.