by Ken Booth on January 27, 2012 · 0 comments
I’ve made a few design changes to Madison Pike to give it a cleaner Dave Winer-like “River of News” appearance. The site is a news aggregator for Madison, Alabama and the new design cuts out extraneous design elements and does away with the larger blog-style headlines in favor of headlines nested within the paragraphs. I started with Automatic’s relatively new P2 WordPress theme and made a few modifications, including using Google Web Fonts for the masthead.
The P2 theme has a few nice features, including automatically rolling new stories onto the top of the page with a different color background and nested comments directly on the index page. I’m still trying to figure out how to successfully integrate Facebook Connect into this commenting system, which is a problem many people are struggling with.
I’ve also done some work on the back end and the site is now nearly 100% automated and crawls for news updates throughout the day.
Bathers enjoying a swim after a long, hot hike on a Tennessee summer day.
One of the very many service workers in New Orleans taking a break on the street.
Another day and another brief shower in New Orleans. We stayed dry beneath balconies along Royal Street as we moved from store to store. I saw this woman across the street with some extra protection against the rain.
Saw this couple waiting out a shower under cover of the Louisiana State Museum on Jackson Square in New Orleans. We didn’t have to deal with much rain on our visit, but the showers did help cool things off.
There were a lot of dogs in New Orleans. As least more than I expected to see.
Some locals on the north side of Jackson Square in New Orleans. I shot this on our first morning in the city from the 2nd floor of the Louisiana State Museum.
The museum had exhibits on Katrina and Mardi Gras and is well worth a visit. It also helped keep us out of a brief shower that rolled in after breakfast.
On Monday the Bob Jones Boys Soccer team lost in the playoffs to Vestavia, ending their season. These enthusiastic Vestavia fans traveled up to see the game. There was a good local turnout for the game as well and we had to stand in line to get in the gate.
With the power out this past week I got behind on pulling photos from my camera. This is a neighborhood egg hunt my kids orchestrated.
