The Trout Underground Facelift: Say “Hello” To Featured Articles

We’re in the process of rolling out some new features at the Underground, which means that — right now — tiny men are carrying tiny data bits around behind your screen. (Don’t freak out.)

What happened? Lots went on behind the scenes, but as far as the happy band of Undergrounders are concerned, we made the whole thing wider (less than 4% of my viewers are using screens narrower than 1024 pixels), added a narrow interior column, and threw a few new features under the hood. You lucky bastards.

Featured Articles

What’s really cool is the “Featured Article” gig, which allows me to “pin” an article at the top of the column until the next “Featured” article comes along (like this one).

That way, the cool stuff stays at the top, and the little articles slide in right underneath it. For example, I held off posting a couple interesting little tidbits while the highly popular “Fly Fishing Movies” topic ran its course.

Now I don’t have to wait (nor do you).

Rotating Headers

Now I can add a new header to a file, and the blog software will rotate through the different headers. I don’t know how useful this will really be, but it seemed so damned cool when the designer brought it up.

I’ll try to use this feature for good instead of evil.

Bugs

We’re still clearing up a few bugs — and I need to do a bunch of graphic cleanup — but feel free to report any odd behavior (any that isn’t related to my writing).

The revamp was due to the hard work of Michael Pollock at Solostream Web Studio, a rather brainy sort.

Anyway, life marches on. See you at the blog software platform administrative interface, Tom Chandler.

[tags]trout underground, blogging, fly fishing[/tags]