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Can you Dig it?
By adamg on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 10:51pm
Yes, you can. Woot! weeklydig.com is back to being an actual site again. And they're using Drupal, which is what Universal Hub uses, so they obviously have considerable taste and discernment.
Now to actually see what they did on their month+ off ...
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Some initital thoughts on weeklydig.com
Not a clue what Digtionary will really turn out to be, but it sure sounds cool: A sort of all encompassing local Wiki. Wikis are good.
Hey, anybody can get a free account at weeklydig.com and start blogging. Just like BostonNow, only hopefully edgier 'n' stuff. I'm user 55, but I don't have anything to say, so I'll just keep babbling here instead.
In any case, here's hoping the Dig really, really embraces readers in a way the Phoenix and, dare I say it, the Globe, never really have. Some of the best stuff in the print version is written by readers, anyway, and the Web in general, and the software the Dig is using in particular, are really, really made for that.
Here's also hoping the Dig's Web designers discover how to use the "padding" control in their stylesheets. Unless they intentionally decided to make all the print smash into the left and right borders of columns, in which case, guys, just don't, mkay? Otherwise, looks good.
Other ways to read the Dig online
You don't have to burrow through the Dig's home page if you don't want to.
The Dig's tracker page will show you all new "recent" posts, with "recent" defined as either brand-new post or old post with a new comment on it.
The front-page RSS feed will give you a feed of all the stuff they've put on their home page. Or grab the everything feed.
redesign debacle
It took the whole summer to come up with this? The new Dig site is a mess! There's div borders all over the place, running into adjacent headlines, the side columns on some pages don't resize to accomodate the blog excerpts they're trying to put in there, the main blog page is broken by oversize images, forcing the side columns below the entries (like photoshop duh?), and there's no obvious RSS feeds (WTF!!?). Also, there's an overall amateurish appearance to the site. What design firm did this? Was this done in-house? Horrible. If they ever fix the feeds I might subscribe to the blog, but I'll stick to the paper version for the articles. What a disaster!