As we enter the heavy design season for 2014, our Site
Development team will be releasing a mini-series of all the cool
features we have made available in the past few years. We hope that
everyone signing on for a redesign or a new site in 2014 will not
only take advantage of what is already out there, but push the
limits even further!
I love overseeing all the site launches because of all the
innovative design ideas that are brought up. Since we custom build
every site, we really want to do something creative and fresh for
everyone. That's especially true for the area that almost all of
you spend the most time on: releases. Whenever we implement a new
story rotator, we make sure to push them to being system provided.
Regardless of whether you launched your site three years ago or
just last week, you are going to get the most up-to-date features
we release.
Responsive design will allow us to bring these rotator ideas to
all devices in a custom way instead of just spitting out the same
standard rotator idea across all sites. The way I look at it, if
you are coming up with an innovative idea to display your releases,
why would you want it to not have an innovative look where most of
your sites traffic is coming from?
So in closing, on your redesign or new site launch, if you are
ready to move away from that standard 600 x 400 pixel main story
image with five thumbnails underneath, take a look at some of our
new story rotator ideas in the gallery below which feature:
Enhanced stats line scores
Related links from the Network
Promotional graphic inserted into the story rotator
Access to play video, click to go to release and see it all on
the release page!
Variations of thumbnails, icons and different shapes to
represent how many stories there are to see
Horizontal and vertical photo rotators
Rotators to support photos of all sizes
Slide through more stories than what shows at first glance