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  • The implementation of the new design is rolling out, with a few bumps, but mostly smoothly.

    This weekend, the focus was mostly on the archives, which are transitioning from a single weekly page to daily pages. The hardest part about this is that the shear size of BroadwayStars' archive makes a typical lookup unwieldy. Here is our master lookup page: http://www.broadwaystars.com/archives.shtml.

    As you can see, it has more than 3000 entries. So I had this concept of a navigation that looks like this:
    Archive > [Year] > [Month] > [Day]. If someone wants to get to a specific day, they can navigate a date hierarchy. Of course, if they are looking for something and they don't know the day, they can still do a search on the upper left hand side.

    Here is the nomenclature behind date organization: http://www.broadwaystars.com/news/2008/03/08/. That is straight forward, right?

    Here is the entry point to the data archive: http://www.broadwaystars.com/news/year.shtml. This is all concept right now. I will try and make it pretty after it works. Ah, the beauty of not having a dev environment.

    Things I know are broken:
    - pages don't validate (html/css)
    - IE spacing, especially on the lists, is making me nuts. (Safari and Firefox look great, use them!)
    - AOL browser. I just don't know what to tell people using AOL, other than DON'T! Maybe if I fix the validation, the AOL browser will work...
    - Rollups in left column do not work in IE. Shocked, I know. Use FF or Safari.

    Things to do:
    - update template to columnists (Ellis, Matthew, Michael, Tim, Stephen, etc...)
    - kill RSS output from news section. This was a hard decision, but must be done.
    - fix rollups
    - go back and rewrite html to validate

    Thanks for your patience.

    Published on Monday, March 10, 2008

    James Marino is the founder of BroadwayStars. A technology geek with a love of theatre, he has been involved with many aspects of show business throughout his lifetime. James lives on Long Island with his wife and two kids. He loves to email and is never very far from an internet device. You can contact him in many ways:
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