Version 2.5 … almost done

After a few late nights trying to get everything up and running, we’ve finally went ahead and put 2.5 live even tho it’s not entirely done yet. I would say it’s about 90% ready. Some of you may think “Why the heck are you releasing it if it’s not done? That’s stupid!”. There’s 2 major reasons for that.

New index content display

After giving the previous index display a try, we’ve decided to revert back to the good ol’ list with the “Older” and “Newer” links at the bottom. We’ve had a few people commented that they couldn’t access the recent archived articles quickly without going through each categories. And the way we had it previously with the 5 entries at the bottom without images, it made them look less important. Something we do not want. So we brought back the list on the index page.

And with that came the “Older/Newer” navigation links at the bottom. They look like this for now but they’ll be styled a bit differently in the coming days.

Change in article view

The second major design change is in the article view. At the end of each article we’ve added links to major social media services. These are an important aspect of every magazine/blog/resource site like ours and the bulk of our traffic comes from these sites… so yes… they’re important.

And we also added a box to entice people to subscribe to our RSS feed easily. Since we plugged it through FeedBurner, we noticed a nice steady increase in our subscribers so we want to make sure that new traffic can easily stay in touch.

Still to come

With that we still have a few non-esthetic tidbits left to add: Archives and About pages and sub-categories showing in category pages. Not sure why we never had an About page before but they’ll be one soon. And we also have a few purely esthetic fixes that need to be done and that will come in time. The functionality of the site that we were looking for is there and that’s the important part.

We hope you like what we have so far and, please, do not hesitate to let us know what you think! We love to have feedback from our readers.