Article: New Article System is Live!

[Ryna]

PSO-World's news system has received a complete make-over! Now integrated with our forum software, the news article system has received some major feature upgrades. Here is a breakdown:

Bookmarking Links - Use your favorite online bookmarking services to bookmark PSO-World stories for future reference.

Interactive News Archive (http://www.pso-world.com/news_search) - This news search system offers several powerful ways to search through PSO-World's vault of past stories. After you've started your search, be sure to use the Guided Search box to narrow down the list of matching articles.

Readable URLs - The URL will now give some indication as to what the story is about.

Print-Friendly Service - Simply click on a news story and you'll see a printer icon in the lower-right corner. Click it to see a printer-friendly version of the story and its comments.

News Categories - Want to see all of the stories associated with a particular category? Just click on a story tag or one of the links in the right-side "News Categories" box on the front page!

RSS Feeds - The front page and each news category now offers its own RSS feed. This will give readers several new ways to read and view stories.



In addition, PSO-World would like to welcome S-T-H (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/member.php?u=34186) to the news staff. He is an avid community supporter and maintainer of PSU Times (http://psutimes.blogspot.com/) - a Phantasy Star Universe blog.
He'll be contributing Phantasy Star Universe news to the site.

Be sure to check out PSO-World regularly for the latest in Phantasy Star news!

[Dhylec]

The new system definitely makes it easier to search & view news now.
Also, welcome S-T-H. It' good news indeed. ;]

[EtherForce]

Oh wtf? What happened to my awesome redness and Red Ring Rico header? Ugh, I do not like this change.

[mizukage]

The new layout looks somewhat brilliant! And funny thing is that this is just a fansite rather than an official site. Way to go guys!

[kevinmaccloud]

welcoooooooooooooooooome STH !

[RadXXL]

It look great, glad you integrated it all. Main page looked shabby ever since the forums got updated.

Only one feature I dont like though. Who the hell prints out news stories? Sure, its a common feature on sites, but who the hell uses it? Only time I ever see anyone trying to print things on forums/sites, its bots.

[Tomeeboy]

Printer friendly pages can be handy if you're ever viewing a site on a mobile device, or something that can't properly display a normal page.
Also can be good for search engine indexing ;)
Yeah, I don't see too many people actually printing off news stories, though. Guess you never know :D

[RadXXL]

Didnt even think about mobile devices. :P
Speaking of which, is there a way to get all the news as a whole, in one RSS feed? I know each news area has its own, but I already have lots of Feeds as it is, let alone a few for this site alone, when one for all the news would work best for me.

[S-T-H]

Here (http://www.pso-world.com/rss.xml) you go. A good browser usually has a way of giving notification if a site has a feed. I unfortunately didn't notice that we were lacking the link to the general RSS feed. I'm sure one will be added soon.
I apologize for not being responsive so far. I'm sure everything will fall into place quite soon though.