Welcome to the new, cleaner Theaterboy. The old design: Pfaugh. Three columns + a few ads + all those blogrolls and booklists and whatnot = way too cluttered.
Notice the category cloud, which looks fun and is more compact than the old category list. Notice the new e-mail sign-up box, for those of you who might not always be tied to your computer, but who lust to have Tboy delivered to your CrackBerry. (No more than one a day, or at least that's what the nice people at FeedBurner promise.)
Notice the adorable Stageblogs logo, which links you to an ever-growing "hive" of theaterbloggers (including Tboy) with whom you may advertise the projects of your choice.
You may have noticed that the press-nights calendar was a giant pain in the butt, and unfortunately it still is. Google doesn't offer a setting narrow enough for it to work in that left-hand sidebar.
But fear not: Because he craves your pity, Tboy will embed the calendar here, in the very mainbar of the blog, each week. Starting in just a minute. Under the now-traditional heading "Death By Theater."
Not that Tboy ever resents the way y'all schedule openings, or anything.
Enjoy.
The new design looks great in Internet Explorer, but is not compatible with Firefox 2.0 -- all the content is squished into the skinny left-hand column... Just FYI!
Posted by: AudreyKate | Friday, 26 January 2007 at 15:46
Arrrgh. Looks good in my Firefox -- but that's 1.5. Will see if I can figure that out... Anybody else having trouble?
Posted by: theaterboy | Friday, 26 January 2007 at 16:44
dude.
the site now takes forever to load and your sidebar is more outta control than a tween girl's bedroom wall that's been decorated with a grillion hansen posters.
suh-NAP.
Posted by: Lucky Spinster | Saturday, 27 January 2007 at 15:30
oh, that came out way harsh. sorry. now i feel mean. i forgot that rule about humor not being so funny when it's at someone else's expense.
Posted by: Lucky Spinster | Saturday, 27 January 2007 at 15:32
Are you kidding? I spat coffee.
It is atrociously busy, the sidebar. I'm working on it. Just can't decide what to get rid of ... must consolidate, or something. Maybe only 3 books/videos, etc. And I think I will get rid of at least one ad.
Slow pageloads, though: I expect that has to do with the excess of YouTube I've been posting lately. Sorry, y'all. I've had a little jones. I'll try to keep 'em down to one a week. [grin]
Posted by: theaterboy | Saturday, 27 January 2007 at 15:42
Hey Tboy,
I walk that line as a prof. web designer, and bigtime theatre buff. I hit the Snap previews all over this page, and saw primarily a lot of previews to pre-made Blogger templates. That's not really helping sell the sites you link to, and in the process it is eating into your load time.
My 2 cents is unless your poll refutes it, the Snaps are not serving a core purpose for your site and your users needs.
All the best.
Posted by: Greg Robleto | Monday, 29 January 2007 at 14:30
I'm totally with you on that. They looked like fun when I saw them elsewhere, but they annoy the crap out of me here. And so far, the poll seems to indicate that others feel the same way. They're probably doomed....
Posted by: theaterboy | Monday, 29 January 2007 at 14:34