I'm tickled to announce that the long-in-the-works redesign of Cold Fusion Video Reviews is finally up and running:
http://www.coldfusionvideo.com
Now complete with a message forum for all the Cold Fusion subsites!
Is the title supposed to be "Untitled"?
No, but I finished up at 2:30 this morning. I'll correct it later.
Nathan,
Please say you didn't retire the head??!! Otherwise, its a great redesign job. I've long been a reader.
-Ed
No, but I finished up at 2:30 this morning. I'll correct it later.
He he, it's happened to me :)
Other than that, it looks really nice. Good job
Nice site. I especially like you notable totalbles at the end of your reviews.
Every now and then I re-read through the index to see if anything else catches my eye...I did that today in checking out the new site.
My netflix queue has grown (or groaned) again
Nice and clean design Nathan, good work as always. I'd like to wish you much fun over the next few days as you iron out any little bugs. I know how that can be a nickle and dime pain in the butt.
Thanks for taking up my slack, though I do now have 3 reviews written up while out here. Just have to do the captures and proof them all after I get back. Hoping to get to work on number 4 soon - when time permits.
Actually dude, I think I prefer your old design better.
It still looks good though.
I also noted that in your review of "Ladyhawke" (loved the movie...also a bifg Parsons/Powell fan....why no lines from Phillipe if the quotes section: "I talk to God all the time, and nothing personal but he never mentioned you") that there is no link back to the ColdFusion 'home page'
Whoops, you're right -- I changed all the existing pages so that the big logo in the upper right would go back to the front page, but I forgot to add that to the template I use. Looks like more editing work tonight.
I'm actually suprised in looking at a lot of movie review sites that they don't use a database backed, template driven, script-controlled approach. Such as feed all the reviews into a db and have a paramaterized script load the data, merge it with a HTML/CSS template and viola...think it would make things a lot easier on you guys...
Yeah... but I know HTML. I don't know databases.
Fair enough :) I realized that as I was talking about that that it would require a bit higher level of geekiness than average to implement a solution like that....
For me, it's natural, I write software for a living and have written script driven websites before so that's my first thought
Post Edited (01-13-05 10:48)
nshumate wrote:
> Yeah... but I know HTML. I don't know databases.
Ditto here. Plus there are good tools out there that will let you update the entire site without using a database, such as Dreamweaver, which will search for entire blocks of code and replace them with new blocks of code.
I actually use something very much like this, but I wrote the code to better suite my needs. I am often able to write reviews when away from home (like now). What I do is write everything to a text file template. PHP then parses the file and sucks it all in, displaying it according to the reviews layout.
So that search engines could index the site, I actually put a index.html file in each directory. All that does is make a call to the PHP file that contains the format for the reviews. That way:
I can write reviews in the field
Search engines can index the site
I can change the look of all the reviews by modifying one file
I can change around the navigator and ad code by changing one file
Your reviews are great, very entertaing and though I don't always agree with them, I find you to be a very fair reviewer.