Internal Dev News
By Cultural Shifts — March 18th, 2008
We’ve made a few additions in terms of functionality and usability:
Abstracts: We’ve added a section to include abstracts of papers that are in the process of being written, or that are being published elsewhere.
Related content: Under the “What’s Related” at the bottom of every …
By Cultural Shifts — March 15th, 2008
We’ve made a few more improvements in functionality and layout that should make the site a bit more accessible and user-friendly.
Save as PDF: Each post will now have a icon, which will automatically generate a PDF version …
By Cultural Shifts and Eliot Che — March 8th, 2008
We’ve migrated Cultural Shifts to a new server with more data capacity and processing power. You shouldn’t notice any difference in the functioning of the site (but if you do, please contact us). The main purpose of the migration is to make the site …
By Cultural Shifts — January 21st, 2008
We’ve finally rolled in the revised design of the website. While the change is mainly aesthetic, there are also a few new features:
New Featured articles are positioned prominently on the front page. If you would like to suggest a post for this section, please …
By Cultural Shifts — January 17th, 2008
We’ve installed a new tagging system, as described below. We’ve also had to restore the database from early this morning, so if you see anything amiss, please contact us.
Choosing from all the tags available:
When you create a new post or edit an old one, …
By Cultural Shifts — January 16th, 2008
We’ve been extremely busy working on making the site a better experience for both visitors and contributors.
After much discussion, the Literature & Review section has been separated into Reviews and Poetry & (non-)Fiction. This should give those doing creative forms of writing a more conducive …
By Cultural Shifts — January 6th, 2008
We’ve completely reworked the image handling portion of the site.
Changes for site visitors:
See an example of the new way visitors will view multiple images here.
Use the left/right arrows on the keyboard to move between images.
Open multiple images at once and move them around on …
By Cultural Shifts — December 10th, 2007
We’ve been working hard on making the layout more accessible for visitors, and have added some new features:
There will now be a small section on the front page displaying random posts from the top two or three tags (subjects). This should help the visibility of …
By Cultural Shifts — November 25th, 2007
Update: We’re pushing back the launch for a bit while we try to reach out to more potential contributors.
The structure and design of the site (both the frontend and the backend) are pretty much complete - apart from a few minor coding tweaks here and …
