Navigation: How to View/Find Articles

I'll add this to the FAQ's eventually, but for now:


The Front Page: The Home page of F:AT shows the three most recent articles with intro text. Clicking on the title, or read more link will take you to the full text of the article with comments.

Recent Articles: The Recent Articles Menu shows the titles of the 5 most recent articles. Clicking on the title will take you to the full text of the article with comments.

Browse All Articles: The Browse All Articles button in the Past Articles menu displays all articles with intro text in chronological order, starting with the most recent. Use the the page/next buttons at the bottom of the page to see earlier articles. Clicking on the title, or read more link will take you to the full text of the article with comments.

Past Articles Menu: The Past Article menu allows you to get lists of past articles by subject. You can sort and filter these titles using the controls at the top of the page. Clicking on the title will take you to the full text of the article with comments.

Browsing Articles by Subject: At the bottom of the page that displays the full text of an article are <Previous and Next> links. The Next> link will take you to the next article in that subject section. For example, if you are reading a review, clicking the next button will display the full text of the next review article. <Previous takes you back to the page that you were just on.

Articles By Author: To see a list of articles written by a specific author, click on the By Author link in the Past Articles menu. Then click on the Authors name in the list that displays.

I think that's it.

Adrian Bolt wrote:

From "The Bomb" the Next link takes me to "Desperation Morale", and not to "Terminator :Sarah Connor..." OS X 10.4.11 Safari 3.0.4 (523.12). History, cache, cookies cleared.

That's correct. The Next> link will take you to the next article in that subject section. "The Bomb" is in the Features>Gameshark section. The next article in that section is "Desperation Morale."

It works similarly to the way BGG works. On the front page of BGG the modules will list posts from many different forums. For example, if you have the "Reviews" mod on your front page, you will see a list of all the recent reviews for all the game forums. Let's say you want to read the review for CUBA, which is at the top of the list, AND the review for MASONS which is listed second. Once you click on the CUBA review, you are in the CUBA game forum. If you want to read more reviews for CUBA, you can move around within that forum. However, when you want to read the MASONS review, you have to navigate out of the CUBA forum and into the MASONS forum, either by returning to the front page, and clicking on the MASONS post, or navigating to the MASONS forum and finding the review listed there.

If you are trying to browse in chronological order recommend "Browse All Articles" and the back button. Those two work together like a front page mod on BBG, and the back button on your browser.

I agree, that next button is counter intuitive, especially when you are accustomed to blogs, like we are.

The new articles are getting "tagged". Look under the title and above the author's name. The section should be displaying.

Adrian Bolt wrote:

Ken, dare I copy numerous posts from ThatOtherSite and ask if tags will be searchable? Tagging every article is a good idea because you're planning ahead, functionality could be added later. For displaying it, I'd suggest it be separate from the title. At the moment the Home page features "2007: A Boardgaming Year in Review", followed by Section, Written by, and the Date, each on it's own line with spacing. This looks good. For the longer sections you could save vertical space by combining all three on one line, ideally centred left, middle, and right respectively.

ubarose, you've nailed it: my Next/Previous habit started with the Hawkwings.net blog.

The layout for displaying the section, author, and date can't be changed without hacking the application code, and no one wants to go there.

The authors of articles can "tag" their own articles by adding metadata keywords which are searchable, but do not display on the article itself. The search button gives you an input box for keyword. It will bring up articles that have that word in their title, text or as a keyword (i.e. tag).

As you said, additional functionality may be added later.