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1 year ago ::
Aug 15, 2008 - 12:25PM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Feature Article about the imminent website redesign, which goes live Monday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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1 year ago ::
Aug 15, 2008 - 2:45PM
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Oh, no... here comes the crapstorm.
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1 year ago ::
Aug 15, 2008 - 3:46PM
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I don' honestly see how they could make this website any worse than it is. I am actually kind of looking forward to seeing if they can actually do something more practical with the real estate.
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1 year ago ::
Aug 15, 2008 - 4:43PM
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I have a suggestion for improving the content you house in the new mtg.com
The following is from a grammar assistance website.
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Question marks, exclamation marks, and dashes go inside quotation marks when they are part of the quotation, and outside when they do not.
Where is your copy of "The Raven"?
"How cold is it outside?" my mother asked.
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"How cold is it outside?" my mother asked.
I can't visit your site even once without running into:
"How cold is it outside," my mother asked?
"Why'd you Momentary Blink your token," asked Bob?
"Why is this game taken seriously," I asked?
Seriously. This laughable grammatical woe is all over your site. As a highlight, the entire page on the Grand Prix Thompson won in Denver places question marks at the end of statements which quote questions.
I guess it's not a big deal, but why on Earth has no one noticed and corrected this? Of course I don't expect or advise anyone to go back and fix a single one of these... but you're still churning them out. I figured there was a new editor or something, and that eventually someone would notice and clue them in, but it hasn't happened.
Any chance you can send out a memo? Maybe mention it to the editor?
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1 year ago ::
Aug 15, 2008 - 5:03PM
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I don' honestly see how they could make this website any worse than it is. I am actually kind of looking forward to seeing if they can actually do something more practical with the real estate.
They could always make it worse. (See Magic Online.)
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1 year ago ::
Aug 15, 2008 - 5:46PM
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They could always make it worse. (See Magic Online.)
Yeah amazingly I managed to forget about that for just long enough to post 
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1 year ago ::
Aug 16, 2008 - 6:36AM
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I have a suggestion for improving the content you house in the new mtg.com
The following is from a grammar assistance website.
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Question marks, exclamation marks, and dashes go inside quotation marks when they are part of the quotation, and outside when they do not.
Where is your copy of "The Raven"?
"How cold is it outside?" my mother asked.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
"How cold is it outside?" my mother asked.
I can't visit your site even once without running into:
"How cold is it outside," my mother asked?
"Why'd you Momentary Blink your token," asked Bob?
"Why is this game taken seriously," I asked?
Seriously. This laughable grammatical woe is all over your site. As a highlight, the entire page on the Grand Prix Thompson won in Denver places question marks at the end of statements which quote questions.
I guess it's not a big deal, but why on Earth has no one noticed and corrected this? Of course I don't expect or advise anyone to go back and fix a single one of these... but you're still churning them out. I figured there was a new editor or something, and that eventually someone would notice and clue them in, but it hasn't happened.
Any chance you can send out a memo? Maybe mention it to the editor?
What grammar assistance website? This is bogus. Everything always goes within the quotation marks, regardless of whether it's part of the quotation or not. The editor is doing a good job.
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1 year ago ::
Aug 16, 2008 - 6:53AM
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I am actually kind of looking forward to seeing if they can actually do something more practical with the real estate.
The site has reasonably decent usability as is. Compare to a site such as http://www.nytimes.com which has a small army devoted to "Usability".
A little bit of cleanup, and a less schizoid approach to ad placement would be nice.
Or, we can get a worst-case and have the site be redesigned with a god-awful flash-based interface that doesn't work half the time and some pointless floating layer ad thing.
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1 year ago ::
Aug 16, 2008 - 7:33AM
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I've got no idea what to expect on the main site (although I'm a bit surprised they're redesigning it again; this one's only a couple years old) but I'm very much looking forward to the new Gatherer.
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1 year ago ::
Aug 16, 2008 - 9:37AM
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I've got no idea what to expect on the main site (although I'm a bit surprised they're redesigning it again; this one's only a couple years old) but I'm very much looking forward to the new Gatherer.
Amen to that. It'll make finding deck pieces so much faster if I don't have to sift through all 2-cost red creatures in Vintage to find the right one.
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