Out There for Argyll









November, 2007

Standard Themes, Core Structures

Wednesday, 28th November, 2007 | Development, News | One

We have just implemented the same theme portal-wide to ensure a consistent look and feel. The differing colours of the original design were not working, provoking confusion and artificial distinctions in information, so we retreated to our original Radio Fyneside red. We have also moved the main news and media site to forargyll.com – this […]

The Missing Semi-Colon

Saturday, 24th November, 2007 | Development, Top News | None

Seems odd that a missing punctuation mark can cause chaos, but it does sometimes. We have had a planned break in service on our websites of just over 24 hours while we updated a couple of things on the website. However, when we tried to return to business as usual the application did not work. […]

Fyneside and the ‘Internerd’

Saturday, 17th November, 2007 | Development, News | None

Just a quick note to say we now have 10 news headlines generated from rss.fyneside.com displaying on the central site, and a whole slew of (mostly) relevant stories from external sites imported into our developing news taxonomy. We particularly like Radio News, because this carries all the feeds from the most relevant sites on radio […]

Not Simple, But it is Syndication

Monday, 12th November, 2007 | Development, News | One

The agglomerated feeds mentioned as option (1) in our last post can be found at rss.fyneside.com. We’ve used a natty little plugin called SmartRSS, a title we rather like. And for once, it does everything it says it can. At the moment we have a grand total of 16 or so accessible posts, from 4 […]

RSS or Really Simple Syndication

Saturday, 10th November, 2007 | Development, News | None

This is the next stage in the implementation. RSS Feeds allow users to be automatically alerted to new stories on our website through their browser, email client or news reader. In the case of the Fyneside project, we are going to take the feeds for all of the individual sites, aggregate them ordered by most […]

New Model Order

Friday, 9th November, 2007 | Development, News | None

Over the next weeks we will be fine-tuning the page layout for Fyneside and its associated websites, ensuring that there is an easily navigable and straightforward structure. As you’ll notice we have arranged the elements so that the lefthand column carries the common content, links to radio programmes and podcasts, as well as links to […]

MUWP

Thursday, 8th November, 2007 | Development, News | None

The vision for Fyneside.com is to create a nexus of blogs, some for businesses in Argyll, some for communities and others for individuals. Each will have its own set of domains, and all will feed into the central fyneside.com site. We’ll be leveraging all sorts of third party solutions, like iTunes, Flickr and Moo.com to […]