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By now I'm sure yous accept all noticed… things look a little unlike effectually here. I've been talking about an upcoming redesign for the last couple of months and finally pulled the trigger and hopefully y'all similar what y'all've seen so far. However, I know change is a tough thing when yous're used to something being one identify and then it'southward non at that place. I hope I tin help brand that transition a petty easier as well as receive some feedback that will aid me further improve the site and tailor it to exactly how yous would like to apply information technology.

To brainstorm, my goal wasn't to practice a drastic overhaul as much as a bit of streamlining, but before I go too far, let me showtime give you a quick rundown of some of the new things y'all can find on the site.

1. User profiles
2. New homepage story rotator, no more sticky posts
3. New movie pages featuring all the information on 1 folio
4. You tin now comment on movie, celebrity and DVD/Blu-ray pages all award pages
5. Simplified navigation for faster admission to what you're looking for
6. New quick-access awards hub
7. New Movie and DVD/Blu-ray homepages featuring the newest releases that week
8. New box-function manufactures, which will now also feature budget numbers, theater counts and per theater averages
9. Studio specific pages now exist
10. Twitter handles for over 365 celebrities
11. Bookmark movies to your profile for afterward reference
12. Site skins giving you lot the ability to customize your fourth dimension on the site
13. New 720p trailers for many contempo trailers and the majority of trailers going forward
14. Speed should be increased for all pages

Now let'south look at a few of these a niggling more than closely…

Upon release of the last redesign I got rid of the homepage Wink rotator featuring five almost recent stories. I did this because it was Flash and because information technology didn't piece of work on the iPad or iPhone and it was, quite frankly, a pain to update and go on upwards-to-date. A lot of y'all grumbled because you liked it and at the fourth dimension I didn't take an instant solution to the trouble. Well, it was i of the first things I fabricated certain came back with this redesign.

So, as you can see higher up and on the homepage a new featured story rotation is dorsum and it work on all mobile devices and tablets and, best of all, it is easy for me to maintain.

The Navigation

Probably the most dramatic change is to the meridian of the site where you'll run across the new RopeofSilicon logo and instead of a multitude of links and driblet-downwards carte du jour options, which hardly anyone was using, I now have viii very specific topics to choose from. The inspiration here was Apple products. We've all become so used to simple and easy, indicate and click. My goal was to make everything as simple as possible and you'll notice that theme throughout this post and the new design.

Of those eight links available in the navigation, "Movies" will change to "Blu-ray" on Tuesdays and instead of linking to the new movies in theaters that item weekend it will link to the new DVD and Blu-ray titles coming out that week. Other than that, it volition remain just how you see it each and every day and I urge you to browse through them all to get acquainted with what is available beyond each link.

The hardest link to go out out was the Box-Office link, which is why when you get to the homepage, directly under the Featured Story rotation, you lot'll come across where it says "GET MORE" and next to that are v boosted links to content around the site, the first beingness for Box-Office, a page that has too been given a major overhaul, at present offering links to all the elevation ten weekend box-function results since I started collecting them in November of 2003.

New Picture Pages

The Cyberspace has changed in a lot of means since I first started the site and admission to more information at once has go a priority. The mode people apply RopeofSilicon has also changed a lot since I first started the site, which is to say the articles at present get the bulk of the attention whereas my moving picture pages don't necessarily get as much. And so I inverse them.

The movie pages used to have multiple tabs for each movie giving yous traditional information such every bit cast, director, synopsis, etc. on the first page, stills, trailers, awards, news, review, DVD and Blu-ray and more on other tabs. Well, that'south all on ane folio now and at that place is no better example than on the page for The Avengers, which features all the new features including the featured trailer right adjacent to the poster.

There are as well defended related stories pages for each movie in the database with stories linked to them. To access the movie pages you can always just click on any link to a motion picture title you see on the site, search for the specific movie or you'll see at the bottom of many posts a link to movies and celebrities referenced in each commodity, but requite 'em a click and off you go.

In improver to the collection of data on all of the site's movie pages you lot'll too be able to annotate directly on each film folio. In fact, you lot'll be able to comment directly on almost every page on the site from movies to celebrities, Oscar shows, Oscar predictions and more.

Registered users will as well be able to Bookmark their nigh anticipated and favorite movies, which will then add those films to your RopeofSilicon profile for like shooting fish in a barrel hereafter access to look for new pictures, trailers, casting information, news, etc. on the titles y'all intendance about about. This feature, in fact, is in its well-nigh dramatic infancy and I can see it becoming much bigger in the time to come giving you the power to create lists and sharing them with others.

Awards Hub

The new Awards Hub is one I admittedly love. From in that location you will have access to the winning histories from the Oscars, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards. You'll likewise accept admission to my Oscar predictions once they get live and but released with the launch of the redesign is the newly updated Awards Calendar.

The three most recent awards stories will also be listed along with links to The Contenders, Oscar Predictions home, Awards Schedule and Oscar Overture.

The awards department of the site will get incredibly agile after I return from the Toronto Motion picture Festival and my kickoff circular of Oscar predictions volition be released. That department will likewise become more than agile year-round every bit I now have much more administrative control over how it looks and operates thanks to an all new, more powerful backside the scenes organization.

User Profiles

Speaking of registered users, this is 1 of the new features of the site I actually hope to take advantage of greatly in the future, but there are a few other things you tin can do right at present.

For starters, by registering and logging in you lot can simply set the login to remember you and whenever you return you'll be logged in and gear up to comment. No more than having to add your name, e-mail, etc. before commenting. In addition to this, inside your user profile you can set up a specific website you may want your contour name to link to, if you lot don't information technology will link to your RopeofSilicon profile where people tin can cheque out your personal bio, where you're from and what movies you've bookmarked. Information technology'due south one of the kickoff steps in bringing us together as a larger customs.

You'll also notice when you're logged in a curt lilliputian motion picture quote at the acme of the right cavalcade. This is a random quote generated for each page for logged in users and is 1 many of you helped put together with contributions on this Facebook postal service.

Side by side, there are the custom skins, which is something a lot of the people who responded to my survey didn't really retrieve would exist all that exciting, but after the launch yesterday it seems a lot of people are enjoying being able to personalize the site a little more than.

Equally of correct at present at that place are two default skins, the white background, which anyone who isn't logged in sees, and a darker version. Across that, there are six custom, moving picture-specific skins I accept created with many more to come up. Hither's a tease of all half-dozen, which yous accept access to right now if you go to Edit Profile from your RopeofSilicon profile.

Site Skins

These six for Bulldoze, David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, Raging Bull, The Night Knight and silent movie star Harold Lloyd were just the all-time ones I was able to create. The goal was largely subtlety and if you ask me the Dragon Tattoo and Kill Bill ones are my personal favorites.

Stay tuned, there are more than to come, and this was the main reason I asked you all to list your favorite movies in that survey I did a couple months back.

Ane Notation: I thing I noticed in testing is that browser caching tin cause for a pare not to show up on pages you may have visited earlier applying the peel. If this happens to you, you'll need to either refresh the folio or clear your browser cache manually. I apologize for this, but information technology's 1 problem currently out of my control.

Miscellaneous

At that place are several other minor tweaks around the site, such as new and faster click here to visit the The Avengers page and click on "Walt Disney Pictures" and you lot'll see what I'm talking about.

Finally, I have added over 365 celebrity Twitter profiles to their bio pages such equally this ane for Tim Roth, which I added simply last night, or this one for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Just a couple more things to bring you lot a little more data than you otherwise thought y'all might get and I plan on doing the same for the movies in the database very shortly.

Across all that, the site should be faster for all visitors and will be getting even faster in the coming months as we streamline it fifty-fifty further and add a few more tweaks behind the scenes.

Oh, and there is more to come, one specific new feature I'm actually excited to roll-out, only it isn't quite ready yet. Before long though… soon.

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Then that is the long of it, but now I want to hear from y'all. What do you like? What don't y'all like? Is there anything you lot're having a problem with? Anything you believe is "missing" from the by version? I want to hear it all, the good with the bad, because otherwise I won't know what's working and what isn't considering I do plan on perfecting it fifty-fifty more every bit we continue and your input is vital.

Oh, and thanks for visiting! I hope you lot like what you see so far.

THANK Y'all

I would offset off like to thank all the readers that added their input and comments when asked. Your aid was extraordinarily appreciated and valuable.

I would also similar to give thanks the folks at my hosting service, Nexcess.net who are and then attentive to changes and issues and in assisting with my merge to the redesign I'm non sure I could take done it without them. If you lot are looking to host your own website, wait in their direction.

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