How to get the most out of Web Series Today #3

Web Series Today is a "collaborative community based blog" about "Web series". When it began as LG15 Today in 2007 the concept was to involve the community at all levels of the blog including the design. Community members would work on a beta version of the site and when ready that design would be implemented. This philosophy continued into Web Series Today as it is designed to day.

While we believe collaboration on the content side of the blog is highly effective, collaboration on the design often led to conflicts that were difficult to resolve. The net result is that the design process stalled in 2009 and because of time limitations we have not attempted to move the design forward since then. Over the next year that is going to change. However, in order to provide a design consistent with the core open philosophy of the blog that process will be centrally controlled, at least in the short run (meaning that at the admin level the blog has been locked down). That does not mean community input is not welcomed. It is essential.

Today we implemented a menu bar at the top of the blog. This was actually part of the design process in 2009 so it will still require some work to bring it up to date. Ideally we planned to put this through a full beta test before deploying, but since two years have passed we feel it is best to deploy the menu bar and beta test it directly on the blog.

We need you to provide feedback on any technical problems generated by the menu bar. If it causes a problem leave a comment below describing the technical issue encountered and include:

Technical issue encountered:
Operating System:
Version of operating system:
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Other information you think will be helpful:

Note that for now, since the links in the menu bar are two years old we fully expect some of them will not work and those should NOT be reported as "technical issues", We want to focus the beta process and discussion on functional elements of the menu bar as they pertain to how your browser renders the Web page itself.

Thanks for your cooperation and we sincerely hope the risk we are taking here does not inconvenience you in any way. Live beta tests are always tricky but we think in the long run it will move things along much more effectively.