Old updates: DLRP Today.com

[Riebi]

Great (and hard!! thank you that you doing that all!) work! Like it much!

[Anthony]

Here it is, our 16th Media Magic Interview from Jérémie Noyer, with none other than Bruce Healey!



If you missed the earlier Disney's Fantillusion interview with Christophe Leclercq, you can find it here.

Next week, we'll be getting all festive with a special little interview about "Ring the Bells" and the music of Enchanted Candleabration, with another musical Disney hero: Vasile Sirli!

[Anthony]

A quick Merry Christmas treat:

[Anthony]

Another big step in the DLRP Today update...

Brand new News & Rumours and Columns & Features pages are now live, along with new pages for every category!

Here's what they used to look like:
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2263 ... ry1ht1.jpg

There's a new Topics Index, a "Subscribe to this topic" link on every category page and the post excerpts have been cut out to leave just the images and the titles. Previously these pages were just a list of 15 identical posts down the page, so you'd see only about 4 on-screen at once. Now, the top two posts from each category are big and bold, with a full 21 posts per page below.

If you see any missing images, those are just very old posts (pre-February 2007) before we started using the 80x50 px previews. On the Columns & Features, new images in the new sizes have been created for dlrpTV, Wish List and magicforum mélange (in addition to the Media Magic ones introduced a while ago). The first ever column we started, 'Remember...?' is also listed (though I've not done the images yet), because I'd like to bring this back fortnightly to replace dlrpTV.

Question of the Week I'll sort tomorrow and add a new question. The poll box won't be on the homepage any more though, since it seemed to be affecting load times.

[The Butlin Boy]

Holy Moly! That is brilliant. The website looks so professional and... Disney

Very well done Ant, best of luck with the rest of the site

[Anthony]

New!



Yo ho, yo ho! Discover how those rascals, scoundrels, villians, and knaves came to be...

[Anthony]

Every single page on DLRP Today now in the new format!

That includes the monthly archives, search pages and the categories mentioned above.

Question of the Week also has its own special new design.

And the revamp of the homepage is now complete! There's a much better sidebar and a new box in the middle which points to pages and guides over on DLRP Magic! that are relevant to a daily news site -- so opening hours, park schedules, etc. The park hours are loaded direct from the DLRP Magic! Calendar.

Now, let's get some news flowing.

[casschr05]

just read the news! some nice reads there!
I like the layout on DLRPtoday very nicely done!

[Anthony]

As a farewell to the 15th Anniversary and a celebration of its lasting legacy, Media Magic looks back at Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade in this interview presented for the first time in English, talking to set design manager Yves Ollier about having the Disney job of all jobs: truly making dreams real...



Look out for an exclusive interview with Kat de Blois about Mickey's Magical Party next!

[Anthony]

"I hope we never lose some of the things of the past." --Walt Disney

Remember a column called Remember...? on DLRP Today? Maybe you don't...

The site ran it amongst the regular news articles in December 2006 and January 2007, picking an attraction, a piece of entertainment or just a moment out of the resort's archives and looking back -- fondly or not. Now we've got an entire section dedicated to columns, it seems a good time for it to finally return from Boot Hill.

The first four articles were a little rough around the edges, but here they are, dressed up with new title images:





Look out for the first article of the new series soon!

[Riebi]

Remember...? is a great column! Thanks for having it here again!

[The Butlin Boy]

It's great to see the old column back, I Remember... ( ) when it was first published, and I can't wait to see what you have in store for us in the future

EDIT: Ant, I don't know if you're aware, but there seem to be some problems with the Remember... home page:

http://www.dlrptoday.com/t/columns/remember/

[Willow]

Le Noel De Mickey looks very similar to one of Walt Disney World's current Christmas shows. Guess they stole that off paris as well.

Great articles Anthony!

[Anthony]

EDIT: Ant, I don't know if you're aware, but there seem to be some problems with the Remember... home page:

Problems? Do you just mean the blue sidebar not ending properly? I've been putting off doing that.

[Anthony]

New:



If anyone ever has any old photos of things at DLRP which are now no-more, and you wouldn't mind them being used as part of this column (fully credited to yourself!), then please do send them via email to news-at-dlrptoday.com. Thanks!

[benjy]

I think this is what butlin boy ment, because it happends on mine too.



But i love the articles i think they are amazing!!!

[Anthony]

Thanks benjy. I've cleared the site's cache, perhaps that'll solve it. Though from the looks of it, your browser is ignoring the "background-position" CSS style on everything...

It looks fine in Firefox 3, IE7, Google Chrome and Safari here.

[benjy]

Thanks benjy. I've cleared the site's cache, perhaps that'll solve it.

It looks fine in Firefox 3, IE7, Google Chrome and Safari here.

Yep thats better now! thanks ant!!

[The Butlin Boy]

I think this is what butlin boy ment, because it happends on mine too.

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But i love the articles i think they are amazing!!!

Yeah, that's what I meant, but it's working fine now. Sorry about the confusion

[Anthony]

Just a simple one to get us going again, but something that's been bugging me personally for a year or so now and spoils the hard work they've put into this area...