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By now I'yard sure you lot have all noticed… things look a little unlike effectually here. I've been talking almost an upcoming redesign for the last couple of months and finally pulled the trigger and hopefully you like what you've seen so far. However, I know change is a tough thing when you're used to something being one place and so it's non there. I hope I can aid make that transition a petty easier equally well equally receive some feedback that will assistance me further improve the site and tailor information technology to exactly how you would like to utilize it.

To brainstorm, my goal wasn't to exercise a drastic overhaul equally much as a bit of streamlining, just before I go too far, let me first give you a quick rundown of some of the new things you lot can notice on the site.

1. User profiles
2. New homepage story rotator, no more than gluey posts
3. New motion picture pages featuring all the data on one page
4. You lot can now comment on motion picture, celebrity and DVD/Blu-ray pages all laurels pages
5. Simplified navigation for faster access to what you're looking for
6. New quick-admission awards hub
7. New Flick and DVD/Blu-ray homepages featuring the newest releases that week
8. New box-part articles, which volition now also feature budget numbers, theater counts and per theater averages
9. Studio specific pages at present exist
10. Twitter handles for over 365 celebrities
11. Bookmark movies to your profile for later reference
12. Site skins giving you the power to customize your fourth dimension on the site
13. New 720p trailers for many recent trailers and the majority of trailers going forward
14. Speed should be increased for all pages

Now allow's look at a few of these a picayune more than closely…

Upon release of the concluding redesign I got rid of the homepage Flash rotator featuring five about recent stories. I did this because it was Flash and because information technology didn't work on the iPad or iPhone and it was, quite frankly, a pain to update and go along up-to-date. A lot of you grumbled because you liked information technology and at the fourth dimension I didn't have an instant solution to the problem. Well, it was ane of the first things I made sure came dorsum with this redesign.

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

The Navigation

Probably the almost dramatic change is to the tiptop of the site where you'll come across the new RopeofSilicon logo and instead of a multitude of links and drop-down menu options, which hardly anyone was using, I now have eight very specific topics to choose from. The inspiration here was Apple tree products. We've all become and so used to simple and easy, signal and click. My goal was to make everything as simple equally possible and you'll find that theme throughout this post and the new design.

Of those viii links available in the navigation, "Movies" will change to "Blu-ray" on Tuesdays and instead of linking to the new movies in theaters that detail weekend it will link to the new DVD and Blu-ray titles coming out that week. Other than that, information technology will remain just how you come across it each and every twenty-four hour period and I urge you to browse through them all to get acquainted with what is available across each link.

The hardest link to go out out was the Box-Role link, which is why when you lot go to the homepage, directly under the Featured Story rotation, you'll see where it says "Go More" and next to that are five additional links to content effectually the site, the first being for Box-Office, a page that has besides been given a major overhaul, now offering links to all the top ten weekend box-office results since I started collecting them in Nov of 2003.

New Movie Pages

The Cyberspace has changed in a lot of means since I get-go started the site and access to more information at in one case has become a priority. The way people apply RopeofSilicon has too changed a lot since I get-go started the site, which is to say the articles at present get the bulk of the attention whereas my movie pages don't necessarily get as much. So I inverse them.

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

At that place are also dedicated related stories pages for each movie in the database with stories linked to them. To admission the movie pages you tin can always simply click on any link to a motion-picture show title you see on the site, search for the specific film or y'all'll run across at the lesser of many posts a link to movies and celebrities referenced in each article, just requite 'em a click and off you go.

In add-on to the collection of information on all of the site'southward movie pages you'll also be able to comment directly on each motion-picture show page. In fact, yous'll be able to comment directly on near every page on the site from movies to celebrities, Oscar shows, Oscar predictions and more than.

Registered users will also be able to Bookmark their most anticipated and favorite movies, which volition so add those films to your RopeofSilicon profile for easy future access to await for new pictures, trailers, casting information, news, etc. on the titles you intendance about near. This feature, in fact, is in its almost dramatic infancy and I can see it condign much bigger in the future giving you the power to create lists and sharing them with others.

Awards Hub

The new Awards Hub is ane I absolutely love. From there you lot will have access to the winning histories from the Oscars, Aureate Globes and Screen Actors Social club Awards. You'll also have access to my Oscar predictions once they go live and just released with the launch of the redesign is the newly updated Awards Calendar.

The iii about recent awards stories will also be listed forth with links to The Contenders, Oscar Predictions habitation, Awards Schedule and Oscar Overture.

The awards section of the site volition become incredibly active after I return from the Toronto Film Festival and my first circular of Oscar predictions will be released. That section will as well become more active year-round as I now have much more than administrative control over how it looks and operates thanks to an all new, more powerful behind the scenes organisation.

User Profiles

Speaking of registered users, this is ane of the new features of the site I really hope to take advantage of greatly in the hereafter, simply there are a few other things yous can exercise correct now.

For starters, past registering and logging in you lot can only set the login to remember you and whenever you return you'll be logged in and ready to comment. No more having to add your name, e-mail, etc. earlier commenting. In improver to this, inside your user profile you tin can fix up a specific website y'all may want your contour name to link to, if yous don't information technology will link to your RopeofSilicon profile where people can check out your personal bio, where y'all're from and what movies you've bookmarked. Information technology's ane of the showtime steps in bringing us together as a larger community.

You'll also notice when y'all're logged in a brusk little movie quote at the height of the correct column. This is a random quote generated for each page for logged in users and is ane many of you helped put together with contributions on this Facebook post.

Next, there are the custom skins, which is something a lot of the people who responded to my survey didn't really think would be 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.

Every bit of right now there are two default skins, the white background, which anyone who isn't logged in sees, and a darker version. Beyond that, there are 6 custom, movie-specific skins I have created with many more to come up. Here'south a tease of all 6, which you have access to right now if you lot go to Edit Profile from your RopeofSilicon profile.

Site Skins

These six for Drive, David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Pecker, Raging Bull, The Dark Knight and silent moving-picture show star Harold Lloyd were but the best ones I was able to create. The goal was largely subtlety and if yous enquire me the Dragon Tattoo and Impale Nib ones are my personal favorites.

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

I Notation: One thing I noticed in testing is that browser caching tin can crusade for a skin not to show upwards on pages y'all may have visited before applying the skin. If this happens to you, yous'll need to either refresh the page or articulate your browser cache manually. I apologize for this, simply it's one problem currently out of my command.

Miscellaneous

There are several other small tweaks effectually the site, such as new and faster click here to visit the The Avengers page and click on "Walt Disney Pictures" and you'll come across what I'm talking nigh.

Finally, I have added over 365 glory Twitter profiles to their bio pages such as this one for Tim Roth, which I added just last night, or this i for Dwayne "The Stone" Johnson. Just a couple more things to bring y'all a fiddling more data than you otherwise thought yous might go and I plan on doing the same for the movies in the database very shortly.

Beyond all that, the site should be faster for all visitors and will be getting even faster in the coming months equally nosotros streamline information technology even further and add a few more than tweaks behind the scenes.

Oh, and there is more to come, one specific new characteristic I'm actually excited to scroll-out, just information technology isn't quite fix yet. Soon though… soon.

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Then that is the long of information technology, only now I desire to hear from yous. What practise y'all similar? What don't you similar? Is there annihilation you lot're having a trouble with? Anything yous believe is "missing" from the past version? I want to hear it all, the skilful with the bad, considering otherwise I won't know what'south working and what isn't considering I exercise plan on perfecting information technology even more than as we proceed and your input is vital.

Oh, and thanks for visiting! I hope you like what you run across and then far.

Thank YOUS

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

I would also like to thank the folks at my hosting service, Nexcess.net who are then attentive to changes and issues and in assisting with my merge to the redesign I'm non sure I could accept done it without them. If you are looking to host your ain website, look in their direction.

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