Site Redesign
You may have noticed that Citizen Jake is being redesigned a bit. Hopefully the new site will not only look nicer but also feature some cool new tricks. It's taken a significant amount of trial and error to get things working but let me tell you about some of the new features and you can tell me what you think about it.
First off major thanks to Bharath Kumarwho designed this style and basically the whole look of the place. The man did a great job. Kumar's design is, as you can see, a three column design that uses K2 as its framework. K2 is basically the sickest Wordpress theme around and makes running a blog both much easier and much cooler. I'm very glad to have it up and running here.
OK now for the new features. First to the stuff in the sidebars. In the first sidebar, the one in the middle basically, you'll notice a search box (which features live search, very cool) and a recent posts section. Nothing too new or fancy about that. Next though is a recent comments section. This is pretty cool; it will show what posts have been recently commented on and who made the comment. It makes it much easier to continue conversations and see who's talking about what. Very glad to have this implemented. Next is the Adsense block (click on it and make me some money damn it!), nothing new there.
On to the right sidebar. You've got the RSS feeds, for those of you with an RSS reader (something I highly recommend). Then the Links section featuring the other site in the Citizen Jake stable, The Sports Note (soon to be relaunced, I promise). Next is the catogories section; click on one and see all the posts I've tagged for that category. Then another Adsense block and the sitemeter reader.
Now to the coolest new thing: the Movie Ratings Page. You'll notice at the top of the blog a tab labeled "Movies". Go there and you'll see all the movies I've seen and rated, along with brief reviews. I'll be updating this frequently as I've got quite a backlog of movies to rate (luckily I've saved every ticket stub from the last ten years). Big ups to Paul Goscicki for creating the plugin.
Anyway thats pretty much it. Thoughts, comments, complaints? Leave'em in the brand new comments
hi–i like the new design but basically i just wanted to see my name on the sidebar.
Ah sweet vanity.