Hey there guys. Ok, as you all can clearly see the redesign is now pretty much finished with just a few details and pages to flesh out thanks to some wonderful help from the amazing Pia, who also was responsible for the previous design of the site. Some things you’ll notice about this new design:
1) I now use WordPress as the back end instead of Movable Type. MT was a wonderful content management system for over 4 years for The Movie Blog, but for a number of reasons I wanted to switch. Damn near took a whole day to just move and convert the 8000 posts over, but it was well worth it
2) Much faster loading. The pages load much faster than before
3) A cleaner look. This was important to me because so much of the identity of The Movie Blog is that of being a BLOG. I wanted it to feel more like a blog. I truly believe we’ve done that here.
4) Content is the focus. As a blog, I wanted CONTENT to be the focus of the page as opposed to design aesthetics
5) Fewer bugs. Daily people would write to me about various bugs on the site from pages not loading, comments not appearing and other sorts of problems. These are now GONE.
In general, I REALLY believe that the end user experience on the site will now be greatly improved… that’s my hope anyway.
As far as The Movie Blog Uncut goes. Monday Doug, Darren and I did record an episode… but for some reason it came out sounding like we were the chipmunks. I believe I’ve found the problem and we’ll be back to our regular schedule soon. Don’t forget, FRIDAY (yes, today) Doug and I will be broadcasting our LIVE show that you can call in and get on air with us on.
The show goes live at 6pm EST and can be heard at www.nowlive.com/themovieblog. See you then!
