Feeds updated, too!

Check out the News Feeds page for links to RSS feeds of all four sections and the five blogs!… Read more »

Staff page finally updated!

The staff page has a new look, and now lists the current staff! Many people are still missing, but will be there soon. Check it out!… Read more »

Threaded commenting now live sitewide

After launching a new commenting system on the blogs last semester, we gave users a chance to give feedback and allowed time to work out the kinks of the new system. Now all sections of badgerherald.com use the new system, so enjoy!Note: While you can log in with your AIM,… Read more »

Blogs more or less finished

We finished revamping all the blogs, including adding commenting functionality to all so users can sign in using their Facebook, Yahoo!, and other accounts. Feel free to leave feedback below.We’ll be continually improving the blogs as well, so watch for updates!… Read more »

Revamping advertising pages

We’re in the process of updating all the advertising pages to the new template and with current information. As always, feel free to leave feedback below.… Read more »

Forum for commenting input

We might implement hierarchical threaded commenting sitewide soon, and as part of the upgrade, commenters could be able to log in to comment using their Facebook, AIM, Yahoo! or Wordpress accounts. This might mean we would have to drop support for our current login system. EDIT: Either way, anonymous posting… Read more »

For better or for worse, Google Custom Search

As much as I hate to depend on Google for more of our services, this change has been a long time coming. Our old MySQL based search has been lacking, working fine for some searches and not well at all for others. Google has obviously mastered the art of search… Read more »

Sports page redesign

Draft 1 of the Sports page is now online. Please leave your criticisms, praise and other comments or questions as comments below.… Read more »

Opinion page redesign

Draft 2 of the Opinion page is now online. Changes inlcude: Added section at upper left to display every piece from the most recent dayRecombined columns, guest columns and contributions into ‘columns’General rearrangement, including bringing up recent comments to encourage discussion and moving down cartoons since we don’t currently have… Read more »

Server performance improvements

I’ve spend much of the past three days making some changes on the badgerherald.com server that have sped up the site enormously. The two big changes were implementing MySQL database caching to prevent redundant database queries, especially from the advertising software we use, and implementing eAccelerator to greatly expedite PHP… Read more »

Videos displayed within articles

I spent most of today working on the multimedia aspect of the website, including building the multimedia homepage (http://badgerherald.com/media), complete with monthly archives (which I’m going to add to every section) via a drop down menu at the upper right. I added the capability to display videos next to stories… Read more »

Sharing features for articles

I finally got a chance to implement a story e-mailing feature that allows users to send a link to a story to anyone right from the article. I also added more links to allow users to quickly submit article links to online services such as Digg and Newsvine. I realize… Read more »

Photo display in stories

With the old site, we could display two photos within a story, and no captions. Though most stories have no more than one photo, I thought I could do better. We now can display an arbitrary number of photos in the sidebar of an article. Not only can we display… Read more »

RSS feeds fixed

As a couple of you have pointed out (thanks!), our RSS feeds were not properly working until 5 minutes ago. If you don’t know what RSS is, visit our feeds page and check it out.… Read more »

Coming soon... (we think)

As Charles said, we are happy with the new site but don’t plan to sit around while the web evolves around us. Many treat the launch of a new site as a stopping point, but we’re treating it as the beginning. Spend four months immersed in a project and see… Read more »