Daily Archives: Monday, 30 September 2002

Who Needs Content?: Awesome Interface

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Wooh-weeh! The new (at least to me) Con­spir­acy Games site is awe­some! The inter­face is some­thing else. They have gone to a LOT of trouble over this.

You’ll need a fast machine, Flash 6, a fast con­nec­tion (it’s huge!) and the sound turned up. From the load­ing screen, to the main inter­face, to the site help it’s a won­der­ful exper­i­ence. There are hid­den sur­prises (just try click­ing all over). The whole site just oozes style.

The site was designed by Fantasy Inter­faces who’s own site is pretty cool too!

I’m a text & cmdln man myself, but for the area it’s adress­ing and the inten­ded audi­ence, this site is soooo cool! :cool: :cool:

Go there, be impressed.

Update This site is now archived here. Link above updated.

That Google Search

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Wow! That Google search for ‘earth­quake in Eng­land’ no longer finds my ‘Earth­quake in Eng­land’ story! I don’t get a men­tion until page 4 now. And that’s not the same ref­er­ence. This is less than 10 hours after a 4th and 5th place result!

I’m guess­ing I was expli­citly (or auto­mat­ic­ally) pulled from the res­ults, pre­sum­ably for not hav­ing con­tent match­ing the keywords. Looks like my fix was too late. :-(

We’ll see what hap­pens :-)

Incredible Google Results and a Problem Semi-Solved

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Strange­ness abounds!

Firstly if you search on Google for earth­quake in Eng­land my story is in fourth and fifth place!

Secondly, they are links to the com­ment and track­back popup pages with no con­tent! Aaagh!

Luck­ily, I’ve hacked in a quick work­around which redir­ects to the main page with the story opened. You can find the details in the b2 forum.

Ques­tions:
1) wtf is my story about the earth­quake doing turn­ing up ahead of say, the BBCs story? (It’s a rhet­or­ical ques­tion I know all about Blog Power)

2) Why is it that a tech­nic­ally ‘more cor­rect’ link which is not inten­ded to be used (the javas­cript onclick event is meant to be triggered) causes me prob­lems? (That’s rhet­or­ical too. I know that the real href link is there so that non-javascript browsers can still get to it).

I guess that my work­around is prob­ably the ‘right’ thing to do. A dynamic site such as this should be able to say “Hmmm. This is an inap­pro­pri­ate entry point for an external ref­erer, I’ll redir­ect to some­thing more appro­pri­ate.” Unfor­tu­nately, my solu­tion is not quite there yet.