In the Works at NCPR

We’re always cooking up something new at ncpr.org. Now you can slip into the test kitchen and sample some new items in development:

Home page changes:
New dropdown navigation: menu items drop down from selection rather than make a second horizontal row. Should be easier to mouse around.
Headline “accordion”: Click a headline to get more text without leaving the page. Relieves that “brick-o-links” monotony.

New POTD Photo albums: Slideshow of the season automatically generated from Flickr service. Thumbnail navigation with show/hide caption feature.

New weather alerts maps: All the weather alerts from the National Weather Service and Environment Canada for our listening area. US alerts on a coded map.

New in the Test Bed:
Election 2010 Twitter module: following the tags #ny23, #ny24, #ny20, #nygov and #nyag. Political news as it happens.
North Country Buzz: Follow all the media of the region via Twitter. News from more than thirty North Country and regional sources.
Adirondack Attic Module: The latest feature in the Adirondack Attic series by Andy Flynn, delivered via javascript to your website or blog.

Try them out and let us know what you think below.

Dale Hobson, NCPR Online