http://404.yakimablogs.com Welcome to the yakimaherald.com blog - The 404 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:07:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A lot has been going on in the background with Depot Central (and I will leave those for Scott) however two important pieces of our site have returned. The RSS and poll system are back. Since we switched servers, the RSS feed pretty much died, so did polls. The ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2008/03/14/polls-and-rss-return-to-yakimaheraldcom/ Well, we are beginning week two of running Depot Central and it still has quite a few things to work through. Thankfully there have been few hiccups. Scott can write a more comprehensive update at a later time on what has not worked and what is now working. Bad ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2008/03/10/monday-update-and-other-news/ Since Monday, we've been receiving non-stop questions about the "Search Archives" section. Unfortunately, with the release of Depot Central V2, this section has been quietly retired...to pave the way for the all-new, all-improved Search functionality. Long-time users of Yakimaherald.com will be familiar with our Search Archives section, with a slow and ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2008/03/06/the-search-for-search/ Scott Francis, the Web team's programmer, has been hard at work repairing parts of yakimaherald.com that should work, but doesn't. In other words - bug hunting. To catch folks up on our latest news, yakimaherald.com runs on Depot Central, a ruby on rails system to publish the news online. ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2008/03/06/depot-central-bug-hunt-day-3/ The first full day of our new Web publishing system is coming to a successful close. Yakimaherald.com is now running on a home-grown content management system (CMS) called "Depot Central V2." Some pieces of the old Web site remain, such as paid obituaries and newspapers in education. These ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2008/03/05/new-yakimaheraldcom-running-on-depot-central-v2-launched/ For anyone who casually reads yakimaherald.com, you might have noticed several things going on with our site, some good, some not so good. Over the past 3 months or so we've changed our advertising service a few times, added new code and subtracted others from the main site, and are creating ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2008/02/29/updates-updates-updates-only-a-few-more-days/ Wow! It seems as if us Web folks have gone underground since our last posting. Sorry for the lack of attention to our yakimaherald.com development blog... we have been very busy over the last month. I'll try to wrap up the latest developments that have consumed our department ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2007/11/13/web-folks-are-alive-and-answering-questions/ Well over the past few days Scott has taken on the task of making a few fixes and improvements to our Opinion section. As we work on improving some of our features, inevitably those changes alter how other things work in different sections. One such fix came up this week when we ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2007/09/13/a-few-opinion-section-fixes/ If you haven't already noticed over the last two days we have added a new navigation bar link that contains links to our new photo department website (thanks to the head photo editor, Gordon King, turned geek,) a link to our photo reprints site, the new photo department photo blog ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2007/09/11/new-link-in-the-navigation-bar-photo-video/ The yakimaherald.com Web site was up and down most of Saturday, providing inconsistent service to our readers. We are looking into what systems failed and how we can prevent future problems. I encourage our readers to please contact us if you are having problems accessing yakimaherald.com or any Yakima Herald-Republic ... http://404.yakimablogs.com/2007/08/27/web-site-was-down-saturday/