Comments on: Welcome to our new home: cm-life.com built to engage you, the reader

By: Rainbow Skill

Rainbow Skill — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:33:17 +0000

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FubsAburo — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:41:39 +0000

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Eva Clan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:48:30 +0000

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asychiara — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:14:28 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:24:12 +0000

Kudos for moving to a more modern system, but come on guys – perform a code review, cause there are some huge no no’s being done.

- css not in a css file (within style tags? so 1996)
- js within the html document
- useless html comments. should be stripped during deployment (just adds more bytes to download guys)
- the content of your head tag is MASSIVE. move script includes to just before the end body tag. the page will load a lot faster.
- spacing within the document source is all over the place, indicating multiple developers. get everyone on the same page and enforce standards for spacing and formatting. this will reduce the overall size of the document youre serving to readers.
- inline script is BAD (im saying this again)
- most of the pages have a doctype of xhtml 1.0 trans, yet they dont validate.
- the css documents (not included by wordpress) dont validate.
- the js included isn’t min’d.

A step in the right direction, but there have to be some pro-level webdevs on campus somewhere guys. Geeks are abound on a college campus, and the site could get some improvements still.

By: Eric Joyce

Eric Joyce — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:32:26 +0000

I really like the new look and the “virtual edition” section. I wish I could still be around to work with it personally.

By: Launch reports from around the network | CoPress

Launch reports from around the network | CoPress — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:17:50 +0000

[...] process of transitioning from College Publisher and building a new design, Central Michigan Life launched its new WordPress-powered site on Aug. 20. One aim for this site was to create a more simple, clutter-free look that was visually [...]

By: New CM Life and Daily Tar Heel, and updates to the wiki | CoPress

New CM Life and Daily Tar Heel, and updates to the wiki | CoPress — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:54:23 +0000

[...] new sites. On Wednesday, we helped Brian Manzullo take the new CM Life live. He has since written a thoughtful post to the community, as well as a more detailed post about the new features of the site. Late last night, a new, more [...]