New Front Page
Every once in a while, the two hairy guys on the Tawawa Web Development Team come up with a bright idea; not too often, mind you, but sometimes it happens. Last week, for instance, they figured they could take the first few words from the last couple of Big Tree and Zemi Note posts, then pull them to a separate page and display the result as the site’s new front page, replacing the sad plain graphic that used to be there.
Here on the Executive Board we were a bit sceptical at first, but eventually we allowed them to go ahead with the plan. They were dinking with the site throughout the weekend — at one point causing it to become temporarily inaccessible — and spent their Monday tying up the loose ends.
The result, we think, is pretty neat: The brand new Tawawa Front Page! It allows you to see at a single glance what’s happening in both the English and the Japanese section of the site; links to the last few comments are provided at the bottom of the page.
The comment links are precision-targeted: they point to the comments themselves, not any longer merely to the archive pages on which the comments are found. The same system has been adopted in the Recent Comment sidebar feature. To link to a comment yourself, simply click on the little graphic at the start of the comment byline.
We hope that these changes and additons will make Tawawa a more pleasant experience and easier to use.
Thanks go out to Bastish, who contributed a great deal of level-headed advice and a few lines of code.
Comments
Hairy, with an aitch.
You should see them with their keyboards when they’re coding: it’s like a madhouse.
And then there’s the banana peels all over the place, which is one awful mess.
pketh :: October 29, 2003
it’s a nice improvement (although the red square was kinda classy) but to tell the truth I never even knew there was a front page :) I just bookmarked the blog
Ayumi Sawa :: October 30, 2003
The new front page is nice. I can see what’s going on in English and Japanese weblog.
Glad you like it.
While we’re in home improvement mode: I’ve just drawn up a much crisper version of the Tawawa logo and added it to the page header banners that are now set in Masayuki Sato and Hiroko Takiguchi’s Holiday font.
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I love the fairy guys very much!