Put Dates on Articles

Put publication dates in an unambiguous format (that means spelling out the month, avoiding dd-mm-yy, mm-dd-yy and even yyyy-mm-dd) at the top of articles.

Beyond that, it would be nice if there was a design convention that made older pages look different. I don't mean "you can tell this page was made in 1996, it has a flashing 'under construction' icon", I mean something more subtle.

Perhaps making older pages greyer? Wouldn't work with photos or videos though.

Perhaps making just the branding/navigation greyer? But as well as "old", grey also means "disabled".

Re: Put Dates on Articles

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 8:33 AM UTC

rachelbythebay wrote: post #4

pokoleo wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...it says n hours ago at the bottom right.

My browser disagrees: http://imgur.com/M2EoJ

Disabled JavaScript?

Re: Put Dates on Articles

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Post by pasbesoin » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 2:04 PM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #5

Put publication dates on articles. Put publication dates at the top of articles. Put publication dates in an unambiguous format (that means spelling out the month, avoiding dd-mm-yy, mm-dd-yy and even yyyy-mm-dd) at the top of articles. Beyond that, it would be nice if there was a design convention that made older pages look different. I don't mean "you can tell this page was made in 1996, it has a flashing 'under co…

And put them at the top. So that I know the context of what I'm considering reading.

Re: Put Dates on Articles

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Post by gala8y » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 4:31 PM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #5

Put publication dates on articles. Put publication dates at the top of articles. Put publication dates in an unambiguous format (that means spelling out the month, avoiding dd-mm-yy, mm-dd-yy and even yyyy-mm-dd) at the top of articles. Beyond that, it would be nice if there was a design convention that made older pages look different. I don't mean "you can tell this page was made in 1996, it has a flashing 'under co…

If you're going to bother putting date on your page, put it at the top, close to the title. Always at the top. Thanks.