Welcome Back, Reader
Oh, hello. How’s it going? …Oh, you know. Two trips to the vet in one day, which I could have done without, but everyone’s more or less fine, and Little Joe lost a pound and a half!
And speaking of changes: the redesign! Huzzah! Thanks, Glark!
No doubt you have questions and/or anxieties; feel free to post them in the comments. BUT.
1) Please look around for a few minutes first, or read the whole thread, before you post that you can’t find XYZ. Almost everything is still here; it just looks different. And you’ll see new stuff — most commented-on posts (bottom center); a new link to the Twitter feed (top leftish) — scattered around as well. Click around a bit and see what’s what. If you still can’t find a category or get a link to work, let me know.
2) If something is busted or looks unintentionally jenky, definitely comment. Missing graphics on pre-2010 entries is a problem we’ll all have to learn to live with, layout-wise, but I do need to hear about kookiness in IE, posts showing up more than once on the homepage, tags to nowhere, and so on.
3) Don’t forget that you can tweak the look and feel to some extent on your machines and in your own browsers. The font went a little teeny on me too. Try your “View” menu.
4) It’s going to be just fine.
Coming up: The Vine, the N Candy AA Sweet Sixteen, and the return of The Crushed Film Festival.
Tags: administralia feline fun times Glark slightly Littler Joe
I’m very impressed. Your last site wasn’t as easy to maneuver as the previous one, but this one was worth waiting for. Kudos!
“…when Elvis and the gang used this room as a firing range.”
OMG, that’s crzy. Very Elvis-y. I can practically hear him saying “Aw hell, it’s raining. Let’s just shoot in here. Priscilla won’t mind.”
I don’t know how you get so much gorgeousness to load so quickly – I’m floored by the new design! (But now I want a big red juicy garden tomato…damn.) Thanks, love it!
Damn, this is one HOT layout! Serious hats off to Glark, it looks awesome.
Just returned from three days in a course that should be titled “Stuff you already learned the hard way, but your boss doesn’t believe that” and saw the new layout.
Very, very cool.
Love the changes.
I imagine White Collar‘s just dropped off your Watching brief because the season ended, but I did wonder if there had been a DVR Breakup there. I’d love to know what you make of that show, if ever you had time to tell us.
Yeah: “Hateful Buntsy, RN” – hee!
I love it too. To me, it is reminiscent of the site before the transition to WordPress; this is gorgeous and slick, but still harkens back to old-school TN. And oh my how speedy!
@Sandman: No, I finished out the show — I really like it.
It is beautiful indeed. One smallish thing, though? The upper right vertical listing of the most recent columns doesn’t include the individual headline of that feature, Vine issue, whatever, which makes it harder for me to know if that’s one I already read or wish to pursue. Turns out I relied on that bit o’ preview a lot. Could the most recent columns be included in the thumbnails in the lower left section so as to allow for that sampling?
@Jane: I’m not sure what you mean; those are the headlines as published. Do you mean that you can’t see any of the leader text from the stories in question?
Regardless, the top-right stories are commented out of the lower section so as not to be redundant, so your best bet is to wait until they make their way to the bottom section. Shouldn’t usually take longer than a few days. I may add a mouseover feature that lets you see the first graf or something, but that’s a ways off. Sorry for any inconvenience!
Ooo Sarah – your last comment now puts it all together for me! I was trying to figure that last bit out — the relationship between the bottom and the top — and now that you’ve said it, I feel kind of…dumb for not figuring it out on my own. I must have been dazzled by the pretty.
@Leigh, don’t feel dumb. You should see some of the IM exchanges between me and Glark from this week. “HOW COME THE THING ISN’T IN THE THING WITH THE THING?!” “You checked the wrong box.” “…OH.”
I think I’ve retroactively hallucinated a title feature, then, but yeah, if you get a mouseover going of the lede, that would be great.
Is there a way to go, from one post, to the previous or next post? It used to be that when you opened the post so that comments were visible, at the top of the essay part were clickables to take you to the last or next post.
That functionality is gone, but you do have the top nav, which can take you to any section, and the side nav, which shows you the most recent stories in each section. So, there are more ways of getting around the site, but that particular one is gone.