• New Article System is Live!

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    Ryna
    Published on Jul 19, 2008 05:28 PM
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    PSO-World's news system has received a complete make-over! Now integrated with our forum software, the news article system has received some major feature upgrades. Here is a breakdown:
    • Bookmarking Links - Use your favorite online bookmarking services to bookmark PSO-World stories for future reference.
    • Interactive News Archive - This news search system offers several powerful ways to search through PSO-World's vault of past stories. After you've started your search, be sure to use the Guided Search box to narrow down the list of matching articles.
    • Readable URLs - The URL will now give some indication as to what the story is about.
    • Print-Friendly Service - Simply click on a news story and you'll see a printer icon in the lower-right corner. Click it to see a printer-friendly version of the story and its comments.
    • News Categories - Want to see all of the stories associated with a particular category? Just click on a story tag or one of the links in the right-side "News Categories" box on the front page!
    • RSS Feeds - The front page and each news category now offers its own RSS feed. This will give readers several new ways to read and view stories.
    In addition, PSO-World would like to welcome S-T-H to the news staff. He is an avid community supporter and maintainer of PSU Times - a Phantasy Star Universe blog. He'll be contributing Phantasy Star Universe news to the site.

    Be sure to check out PSO-World regularly for the latest in Phantasy Star news!
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    Comments 7 Comments
    1. EtherForce's Avatar
      EtherForce - Jul 20, 2008, 01:25 AM
      Oh wtf? What happened to my awesome redness and Red Ring Rico header? Ugh, I do not like this change.
    1. mizukage's Avatar
      mizukage - Jul 20, 2008, 12:15 PM
      The new layout looks somewhat brilliant! And funny thing is that this is just a fansite rather than an official site. Way to go guys!
    1. kevinmaccloud's Avatar
      kevinmaccloud - Jul 20, 2008, 01:35 PM
      welcoooooooooooooooooome STH !
    1. RadXXL's Avatar
      RadXXL - Jul 20, 2008, 09:35 PM
      It look great, glad you integrated it all. Main page looked shabby ever since the forums got updated.

      Only one feature I dont like though. Who the hell prints out news stories? Sure, its a common feature on sites, but who the hell uses it? Only time I ever see anyone trying to print things on forums/sites, its bots.
    1. Tomeeboy's Avatar
      Tomeeboy - Jul 21, 2008, 12:33 AM
      Printer friendly pages can be handy if you're ever viewing a site on a mobile device, or something that can't properly display a normal page.
      Also can be good for search engine indexing
      Yeah, I don't see too many people actually printing off news stories, though. Guess you never know
    1. RadXXL's Avatar
      RadXXL - Jul 21, 2008, 02:13 AM
      Didnt even think about mobile devices. :P
      Speaking of which, is there a way to get all the news as a whole, in one RSS feed? I know each news area has its own, but I already have lots of Feeds as it is, let alone a few for this site alone, when one for all the news would work best for me.
    1. S-T-H's Avatar
      S-T-H - Jul 21, 2008, 06:41 AM
      Here you go. A good browser usually has a way of giving notification if a site has a feed. I unfortunately didn't notice that we were lacking the link to the general RSS feed. I'm sure one will be added soon.
      I apologize for not being responsive so far. I'm sure everything will fall into place quite soon though.
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