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squerl
12-30-2007, 09:46 PM
Hey guys, another upgrade to the site.

If you look on the main page at http://www.left4dead411.com/ you'll notice you can now click on the titles of stories and get unique pages for each story such as this one:

http://www.left4dead411.com/news/2007/12/happy-hol idays-and-story/ (http://www.left4dead411.com/news/2007/12/happy-holidays-and-story/)

There's also an Atom Feed (http://www.left4dead411.com/feed.xml) linked on the menu for anybody that uses that, and there's a news archive that will automatically update and let you find things from certain years/months also located on the menu:

http://www.left4dead411.com/news

Example for October only stories: http://www.left4dead411.com/news/2007/10/

The way the site used to be (for almost a year now) was me just directly editing the code of the pages that changed every time there was a new story. I put all the past news stories into a database and now everything is read from there (with caching to prevent the server from getting pwned from traffic). The real benefit will be in the future when there's a lot more news coming out, when things need to be changed and allowing people other than myself to add/edit/submit news and other parts of the website.

I'm dedicated to making this the best fansite out there, so any suggestions or ideas you have for now/the future (once L4D is out) that you think people might want/need, please post it.

So far this winter break we've now got the brand new look, screenshot and video galleries, fan fiction section, forum polls and private messaging, a lot of hidden upgrades, and now the entire news system upgrade. Let me know if you find any bugs or problems with the news system.
dontleave
12-30-2007, 09:49 PM
Yaaaaaay. I think squerls been grindin' for these upgrades.
Kenny
12-31-2007, 04:14 AM
Badass man. So much nicer!
Atari
12-31-2007, 04:23 AM
It'd also be worth compressing (gzip) the main site/forums as it's so simple to do and saves a sh*t load of bandwidth.
KashMunni
12-31-2007, 06:28 AM
Nice =D

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/5580/pnthanxwe9.gif (http://imageshack.us)
Puscifer
12-31-2007, 07:02 AM
thats cool, websites a little better then teh shotbox days:)
squerl
12-31-2007, 07:59 AM
Wow, since you said that I wanted to check on the shoutbox, to find that spammers found it. In the past two months there was 15,200 separate spam posts (making a 3MB plain text file).. I deleted all of them and removed the ability to post on it for archive purposes. Boo spammers.

If anybody wanted to check, it's here: http://www.left4dead411.com/l4dshout
Puscifer
12-31-2007, 08:32 AM
haha thats really strange reading through the shoutbox lol..

who wrote this:

Mike booth
I AM A *ING FAGGOT WHO WONT RELEASE A GAME THATS ALREADY DONE.

ahaha
Ilkoo
12-31-2007, 08:59 AM
I AM A *ING FAGGOT WHO WONT RELEASE A GAME THATS ALREADY DONE.

haha frickin timeless
dontleave
12-31-2007, 10:27 AM
Wow... That page hurts my eyes.
Shrubberyjsc
12-31-2007, 12:16 PM
Shrub
LOL!
2007-10-02 (12:53)

Shrub
I would laff if I could still use this.


^See?

I was true to my word.

=)
KashMunni
12-31-2007, 02:58 PM
haha thats really strange reading through the shoutbox lol..

who wrote this:

Mike booth
I AM A *ING FAGGOT WHO WONT RELEASE A GAME THATS ALREADY DONE.

ahaha

Rofl!
The One
12-31-2007, 03:45 PM
Sadly most of the spam was for me.............. but hell it was funny