Ooh! Shiny!
| Monday, March 31st, 2008 | --Sean |
Whoa, clearly we missed a day because we were just so dazzled by the new Wordpress look. It's new and shiny, like the recently launched Shine (from Yahoo!), which is not for me. Rather, it's a community site intended for women, who have apparently been vastly under-represented in our previous offerings (as an employee of Yahoo! Sports and our all-male engineering squad, I take offense at that statement). In addition to providing a ton of great lady-oriented content, it also lets users create their own blogs to share their own opinions and connect with other opinionated women (...er, of which I know none).
One other pretty neat thing is the tour that pops up the first time you visit the site. I think we used something similar with Yahoo! Buzz; I'm not positive, but I'd like to think it's all done with metadata and fun Javascript. The general idea is that it whizzes you around the page to hit up all of the labeled key features, giving you a really quick and effective way to convey how to use a site.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Yeah, sorry about that. My connection in Atlanta was a bit spotty.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Heh, JR, I’m far more flaky about updating, and you have nothing to apologize for. My bad for not getting your back and posting something on Friday; I was distracted by Stanford’s men’s basketball losing their Sweet Sixteen game and the drinking that ensued.