Restructured Home Page
For the start of this semester, we have introduced a restructured home page with a bigger carousel. Please let me know what you think! I have more work to do on the home page, but it needed to be simplified.
There is still the problem that I have so many external scripts running, that when the page loads, the carousel takes a second to fully load. That is what causes the navigation buttons to "pop" in like that. Currently there is CSS in place to minimize the strange loading, and that "pop" effect is the best I can do for now.
I have been working with a friend to asynchronously load Wibiya, Issuu, Monster, and OpenX scripts. Hopefully I can get to testing that out this weekend.
The carousel itself is a Movable Type plugin that I wrote, and is based on the AnythingSlider jQuery plugin. More on that in a future post.
On a less technical note, I will be adding more carousel slides and community content to the bgnews.com home page soon, such as our Housing Guide and Housing Forum, which remain one of the most popular parts of our site.
There is still the problem that I have so many external scripts running, that when the page loads, the carousel takes a second to fully load. That is what causes the navigation buttons to "pop" in like that. Currently there is CSS in place to minimize the strange loading, and that "pop" effect is the best I can do for now.
I have been working with a friend to asynchronously load Wibiya, Issuu, Monster, and OpenX scripts. Hopefully I can get to testing that out this weekend.
The carousel itself is a Movable Type plugin that I wrote, and is based on the AnythingSlider jQuery plugin. More on that in a future post.
On a less technical note, I will be adding more carousel slides and community content to the bgnews.com home page soon, such as our Housing Guide and Housing Forum, which remain one of the most popular parts of our site.
