| If you've been watching the Recent changes page and seen all the changes I've been making to the Dwilight Daily, then you've probably been wondering what the heck all the changes are, since there haven't been any new articles. Well, I've been putting in a lot of work into the back-end to try and make the Dwilight Daily the absolute easiest paper to write and maintain, both for the editors and the writers. My hope is to automate as much as I can, so the writers will just have to click a link, paste a template, and fill in the article. If you use the "Write an article" link at the bottom of the front page, then the article will automatically be placed in the proper location, with new pages created on-the-fly as needed. | All of the old-article archival work should happen (almost) automatically; all the editor has to do is change two month names on the front page. No copy/pasting of stories from page to page, or creation of new archival pages. We even have a special auto-generated Comments link for each story that will automatically place each article's comments on the correct page applicable only to that individual article. (Actually, it's for all articles written that day, but close enough.) All of this automation should make for the quickest and easiest administration, and the smallest possible opportunity for error. So as they say: "Please pardon our dust!" as we continue to improve things to make the Dwilight Daily the best In-Context newspaper ever written for BattleMaster! |
