G&T: The Same Generation
Five months in the future, John Hoare and Ian Symes, the last Red Dwarf fansite maintainers alive, discover they are pregnant after a liaison with their competent selves in a parallel universe. Their pregnancy concludes with the successful delivery of a new design for Ganymede & Titan. And so on. Yes, G&T has a new look. So why not celebrate this with a collection of overused buzzwords?
More relevant
With each story getting its own article now instead of everything being lumped together, and the splitting up of News and Site Updates, you can now read only what interests you, rather than wading through a pile of crap you couldn't give a toss about.
More interactive
You can now comment on all our news stories and site updates. Unlike certain other RD forums, feel free to swear and be as rude as possible. Note however that there is a thin line between being amusingly offensive in general, and being offensively offensive to specific people.
More accessible
The site is now more accessible across a range of browsers. Not that most of you HEATHENS using CUNTING IE will care, but if someone stabs you in both eyes with an icepick, rest assured that you'll be able to enjoy the site using a speaking browser.
Note that due to various factors, this new version of the site was rather rushed up. Despite improving accessibility in some areas, there are still a few accessibility problems with certain browsers, particuarly those which don't support CSS. The Episodes section is currently offline, and some of our existing content looks a bit strange at times. And just try posting a comment without filling in the required fields... All these problems will be ironed out next week. We'll also add the April-July News Archives.
After all that is sorted out, we have plans for lots of new stuff: an RSS feed being the next addition. And for those of who you just want better content, we'll be revising a section a week, to make it bigger, better, and actually vaguely competently written. Hooray!
Comments
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SELFISH BASTARDS!
Posted by Nik at September 4, 2003 06:30 PM
from wot i have seen the new site layout for the news looks fucking amazing, unlike before where there were up to 20 full news articles on one smegging page. good job guys.
Posted by ben at September 5, 2003 09:40 AM
Excellent, well done!
Posted by Nik at September 5, 2003 12:57 PM
I say! How jolly!
Posted by Tanya at September 5, 2003 01:48 PM
SEMG!
Posted by Ian Lister at September 5, 2003 02:01 PM
Most good. In fact, even gooder than before.
Posted by Darrell at September 5, 2003 02:22 PM
Splendid, just splendid.
Posted by Austin Ross at September 5, 2003 02:37 PM
eeeeeeeeeeexxxxxxxxxxxxtrodinary!
Posted by Natalie at September 5, 2003 02:44 PM
Nice site, shame you haven't given me any credit for any of your news pieces :P
:D
Posted by Drzymala at September 5, 2003 04:41 PM
Great site :-D
Posted by Bob the Skutter at September 5, 2003 04:49 PM
Nice new design but I really did like the newsrounds. Ah well, its progress I suppose.
Posted by Cappsy at September 5, 2003 07:00 PM
Well, you never know, Cappsy. There might still be newsrounds. It's just when the OS updates with a massive story (such as the one today), that story will be dealt with seperately.
I never realised that the newsrounds were popular at all. But a whole two people have lamented it!
Posted by Ian Symes at September 5, 2003 09:15 PM
Make that three people, LOL! I hope you guys realise that I am now so compulsively addicted to this 'ere website I could swear I was having withdrawall symptoms when it was offline. Love the new look, but....any chance of a picture section? You have nice screen caps...
(crawly bum-lick mode cancelled)
Posted by McGruder at September 7, 2003 12:57 AM
Was I that second person Symes?
I remember telling you to your face I :heart: the Newsrounds.
Posted by Joey at September 7, 2003 10:47 AM
Thankyou all for your kind comments. Well, apart from the one person who has posted all of the negative comments under different names. There is a gargantuan list of Newsround fans, which is quite worrying.
We would have a picture section, but it's not terribly original. We do intend to have many more pictures in each normal article, however.
Posted by Ian Symes at September 8, 2003 12:25 PM
The other thing is, it's slightly cheeky of us to use a load of screengrabs for content; it's copyright material, after all. Using grabs "for the purposes of review" or whatever it is probably won't get us into trouble; but making the grabs the actual content is a bit morally, not to mention legally, dodgy. The same applies to any graphics we nick from other sources.
Posted by John Hoare at September 8, 2003 05:08 PM
Indeed, you pair of thieving gypsy cunts.
Posted by John Craven at September 11, 2003 06:10 PM
You scoundrels! Return my pictures immediately!
Posted by John Hoare at September 11, 2003 07:24 PM
No.
Posted by Tony Hart at September 11, 2003 08:59 PM
Love the new look, guys ;-)
Posted by Stephen Fletcher at September 24, 2003 09:07 AM
I care about accessibility John, if it makes you feel better. ;-) Well done.
I've just recreated Groovetown's header from scratch for the same reason and, yes, getting it to work in IE was a pain. So what browser do you use?
Posted by Rick Mason at October 8, 2003 08:08 PM
Thanks Rick. Still need to fix quite a few things here and there, mind you - I must get that sorted. The main problem is with IE6 - the CSS box model appears to be implemented differently than in earlier versions of IE, and in Mozilla/Opera/etc. I've fudged it by forcing IE6 into quirks mode by including an xml header (which it shouldn't do; stupid idiot browser) - but my problem then is that if I've done that, I can't include any PHP, because PHP tries to process the xml header as PHP. Probably the best thing to do is rebuild PHP on the server (I have a pretty nice hosting company who let you do practically anything) and make it so it doesn't recognise short tags.
Sadly enough, I'm on a pretty underpowered PC, and so I use IE5.5 - it's the fastest. Once I get the other PC fixed though, I tend to use Mozilla or Firebird.
Posted by John Hoare at October 10, 2003 11:57 PM
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