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Month: July 2010
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My kind of bull-running
From the Big Picture (contains some fairly nasty ones of bulls getting stabbed and variously gushing and vomiting blood but also some ones of silly people getting nailed by bulls and one awesome one of a guy jumping over a bull)
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Subfecal Condomberg
A phrase I *never* thought I would read, from a fairly grim post about a fairly grim topic!
Turns out the sewers beneath London’s Leicester Square contain about 1,000 tonnes of fat that are clogging the system a little:
“We couldn’t even access the sewer as it was blocked by a four-foot wall of solid fat.”
Check the comments for the inevitable KFC, McDonalds and BP jokes…
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Think Locally Fuck Globally
Or maybe the other way around. Or both/neither.
I think I might’ve cracked what I want to do with my two secondary columns, the slim central column will be to directly support the main content, for example:
- On the homepage where the primary content space is the news feed this will contain Most Read, Recent Comments and The Boar RSS – other things relating to overall SU/student news
- On an article page this will contain Most Read, Recent Comments and Recently Added for the article’s owning organisation (also if Related Articles can be done somehow tying into the tags then maybe that too – these could also/alternatively sit at the bottom of the article)
- On an event page this will contain Popular Events, Recent Comments on Events (can this be done?)
The larger right hand column will be for alternate content types to those of the primary content area and middle column, for example:
- Events, Food Offers and Polls on pages when the primary area is News
- News on Events pages etc.
I’m still working out how local/global and now/featured work on this final column, I think on the homepage it should be focused on the right now, stuff I can do now, see now but once you get down to pages owned by an organisation it can be more ‘this is what these guys are doing now but also this important thing is coming up’.
www.warwicksu.com/scratch – for page I’m working on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbgC3qw_OlM – for the title reference
Sat down to have a cheeky hour of gaming before bed, ended up working. Lame! But as I’m here you may as well get an update.
It’s all still mutable but this is how it’s starting to shape up. Obviously depending when you look at it it may look different to its current state so here’s a screenshot as it stands (click for bigger):
Ignore the slightly garish ‘Looking For’ in the middle column (and similarly the bright yellow ‘Offers’ just out of shot if you’re viewing the actual page), these are vestigial elements from a failed experiment in colour.
That said I am looking at section colour coding and how it can be done without making it look like it’s aimed at 5-year olds. It’ll probably be along the lines of this quick sketch up in red:
The ‘Good evening Daniel’ space will be a Toolbar of sorts likely containing an Inbox, Calendar, Basket and Profile link and probably containing Admin functionality.
The central (slimmest) column will probably contain area-specific navigation and possibly Most Read and Recent Comments feeds. The Search may disappear from there.
Obviously there’s still a lot to be done (especially as this is a mockup rather than an implementable template) but it’s getting there, just need to work a little more on distinctions between content areas (what’s global, what’s context specific) but it is taking shape!
Sorely tempted to stay up and watch the rest on ITV tonight but bed is calling. Will the prequel be as good? I don’t think any modern effects will be as scary as the stop-motion (and nothing will ever beat one man’s torso biting off another man’s hands).