Ellie and I did our first big coding session since being back. We’re close to wrapping up IE compatibility for the site. The major issues are taken care of and the site looks close to identical across IE 7, Firefox and Safari which is great news! 50% of our hits come from IE users (unfortunately) so it’s exciting to know that they’ll be seeing our site in it’s best form.
The IE compatibility push is also important for ICPA, where the judges could be using any browser (even both if they’re techies) to judge our site. This was the main reason behind Ellie and I doing this push, and now that the major issues are out of the way I can rest easy.
Soon Ellie and I will be looking at a redesign for the site. We’ll try to solicit feedback from the staff, a few faculty members and even an alumni or two if we can. I’m excited to update our look, and more importantly enhance the usability of the site.
Peter is looking into a TKS Facebook app that will carry our headlines. The hope is to also scan articles for the names of the users of our Facebook app. For example, if I install this application and an article contains my name somewhere you would see “Matt Baker appeared in the article ‘Whatever’ on theknoxstudent.com” in the newsfeeds. I think it could be a fun tool to bring in some more readers and make us more visible to the student body.
