Akatombo Web Log

Thursday, September 09, 2004

Japanese site launched, new CMS

We are pleased to announce the long in coming launch of our Japanese pages.  It is short of articles at the moment, but that is something that we hope to remedy in the very near future.  While we were at it, we updated the site to a new content management system that will give us more flexibility, and hopefully let us do some really cool stuff in the near future. 

We have done our best to make sure that our url are consistent, so if you are reading the Design Page (http://www.akatombo.com/index/en/design/) and decide that you want to read the Japanese version of the page, simply change the en in the url to a ja (http://www.akatombo.com/index/ja/design/) This should work (I think) for any url on the site, but when you do it for pages containing articles from the news section the navigation, date header, etc languages will change while the article itself stays the same.

It is likely that in spite of all our checking we have missed some errors, so if you see something that seems strange to you, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

We have tried to make sure that our new site layout won’t break anything, and so we have redirected all of the old url to their new counterparts.  Big thanks to Natalia for pointing out that images weren’t showing up on one of the pages.  This was due to a minor error in our redirection code, and was fixed in seconds.  Without her letting us know though, it may have been there for days.  Thanks Natalia!

If you are subscribed to our RSS feed, and it suddenly stops working correctly in your reader, please tell us, we have redirected our old feed to our new RSS 2.0 feed, and while we don’t think it’ll break anything we can’t be totally sure.

And last, but not least, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the site.  Do you find the color scheme to be hard on your eyes?  Do you think it would be better if our side menu was on the right side?  Whatever your suggestion, please tell us about it.  If you are going to leave a comment in the news section, we highly recommend that you sign up as a site member.  This will make it easy for you to post comments, just type the comment and go, no need to enter any of your other information each time.  The member sign up can be found in the upper left-hand corner of any news section page.