TWG Development Blog: RSS comes to TWG. Finally. [Updated]Posted by: Spriggan on July 24th, 2008Categories: Site News New FeatureA lot of people have been asking for them so I’ve started to add RSS feeds to TWG, this is something I've been wanting to add for years and I'm quite surprised it took me this long to get to it. Now right now this is for blogs and front page blurbs only, to get an RSS feed for departments requires me to change how the site handles how article are approved and posted, it’s a system that was never designed to do this so problems can happen when you try to create a feed. It’s not complicated work, I already have the changes mapped out, but there is some significant work that I have to do so it will probably be a week until I get that working. Ok so it took a little less time to work out then I thought so the main page is up too. This doesn't display the blurbs that Nessa writes because the blurbs aren't linked to the article in any way, shape or form, I whould like to use the Blurbs incase we ever post a non-artile blurb but that would require linking the two togethor which means I'd probably end up making Nessa do all that via the submission forum. This way is much simpler and works for the most part, also I'll be adding deparments sometime so watch this space and I'll let people know.
TWG Development Blog: What's in store for TWG over the summerPosted by: Spriggan on July 24th, 2008Categories: Blogs Site NewsOver the course of the years TWG really hasn't changed much, whether that's good or bad depends on what you want from a website, and some people don't care much for change--I'm not one of those. Since becoming TWG's developer more then a year ago I haven’t really done much with the site myself, I’ve always had big plans for changes but plans--even if big--mean nothing if you don’t have the time or strong desire to work on something. Well since then my thinking on what makes a website great has really changed, as have how I approach site development.