Blatant self-promotion: The shiny new Cold Fusion

nshumate · January 06, 2005, 08:32:08 AM

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!

Fearless Freep · January 06, 2005, 10:43:35 AM

Is the title supposed to be "Untitled"?

nshumate · January 06, 2005, 10:49:14 AM

No, but I finished up at 2:30 this morning. I'll correct it later.

Ed · January 06, 2005, 11:30:34 AM

Nathan,
Please say you didn't retire the head??!! Otherwise, its a great redesign job. I've long been a reader.
-Ed

Fearless Freep · January 06, 2005, 11:57:06 AM

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

Scott · January 06, 2005, 10:01:22 PM

Nice site. I especially like you notable totalbles at the end of your reviews.

Fearless Freep · January 06, 2005, 11:23:58 PM

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

Andrew · January 06, 2005, 11:55:58 PM

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.

Ash · January 09, 2005, 12:56:50 PM

Actually dude, I think I prefer your old design better.
It still looks good though.

Fearless Freep · January 13, 2005, 11:13:54 AM

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'

nshumate · January 13, 2005, 11:27:38 AM

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.

Fearless Freep · January 13, 2005, 11:33:16 AM

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...

nshumate · January 13, 2005, 11:37:43 AM

Yeah... but I know HTML. I don't know databases.

Fearless Freep · January 13, 2005, 11:42:31 AM

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)

Gerry · January 13, 2005, 12:04:04 PM

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.