I usually go to the news page a couple of times a week, and I 've found it easy to find where I left off the last time -- until now.

I don't understand the impetus behind the redesign. Was it just to reduce the page length? There must be a better way. Perhaps make the current news page always be for the current month. It makes it inconvenient to check toward the beginning of a month having missed part of the last. But, still, I can't figure the current page out.

Greg

-- Greg Conquest (conquest@efn.org), August 10, 1999

Answers

Hi Greg -

Thanks for the note, *sorry* for the slooow response - I'm invariably way too busy to get onto the forum myself, and Mike's fully occupied with the news all the time.

We went to the new format as part of a change to a script-based system that makes it easy for us to update the news more frequently during the day, and for Mike and I to both contribute items. I *think* it's on Mike's todo list with this to set up the page archiving on a monthly basis, which should address (some of) your concern. I'll pass this along to Mike, so he can dialog with you to see what works best from the reader's side. (On our end, the change to the CGI-based news update system is *so* much better that there's no going back, but maybe we can find a way to have the script mark the passage of time more visibly...)

Thanks for taking the time to write!

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), August 22, 1999.