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Idolator's Makeover Week continues with the site's first redesign, which we've I've been looking forward to since some of its components made their way onto Gawker a few weeks back. (Yes, the world of blogging does make your priorities a bit screwy. Also, your usage of first-person pronouns, but I'll get to that in a second.) The guide to today's three big upgrades after the jump.
Bylines. This way, you can know just who is, say, pulling for Brent Muscat to take the Faster Pussycat name over, and who probably isn't. This is also the reason for that ominous "dropping the first-person" note I dropped on Monday (and in case you were wondering, I've fallen really, really far into the pit of "we").
Quicklinks. Let the semi-snappy one-liners flow! As a result, Aggregated Assault and Liner Notes will be going away, but the quicklink format allows us to link to blogs and breaking news all day, so any amazing crate-digging blog posts or Britney Spears crazy-rants that go up at, say, 3:55 p.m. ET will be less likely to go unnoticed.
Smaller photos, and shorter posts, on the front page. This is to minimize scroll and "promote information density," and it has the neat bonus or dropping you at (well, okay, near) Idolator's comment section. Because comments give me a thrill-ride-excited feeling that isn't dissimilar to the half-sick, half-excited reaction I'd have when the phone at my college radio station would ring--and if our stats are right, a lot of you aren't commenting! So jump in. Those of you with accounts can even log in at the top of every page.
And that's it! Well, there's also the squint-to-see-it logo, but that's being worked on and should be at least semi-visible by next week. If you have any buggish issues with Idolator's new design, please send our tipline an e-mail with a screenshot and a note about what browser/operating system you're running. Or you can just complain in comments and increase my stomach-churning quotient for the day.
[IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?i=epLuE1[/IMG]
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Bylines. This way, you can know just who is, say, pulling for Brent Muscat to take the Faster Pussycat name over, and who probably isn't. This is also the reason for that ominous "dropping the first-person" note I dropped on Monday (and in case you were wondering, I've fallen really, really far into the pit of "we").
Quicklinks. Let the semi-snappy one-liners flow! As a result, Aggregated Assault and Liner Notes will be going away, but the quicklink format allows us to link to blogs and breaking news all day, so any amazing crate-digging blog posts or Britney Spears crazy-rants that go up at, say, 3:55 p.m. ET will be less likely to go unnoticed.
Smaller photos, and shorter posts, on the front page. This is to minimize scroll and "promote information density," and it has the neat bonus or dropping you at (well, okay, near) Idolator's comment section. Because comments give me a thrill-ride-excited feeling that isn't dissimilar to the half-sick, half-excited reaction I'd have when the phone at my college radio station would ring--and if our stats are right, a lot of you aren't commenting! So jump in. Those of you with accounts can even log in at the top of every page.
And that's it! Well, there's also the squint-to-see-it logo, but that's being worked on and should be at least semi-visible by next week. If you have any buggish issues with Idolator's new design, please send our tipline an e-mail with a screenshot and a note about what browser/operating system you're running. Or you can just complain in comments and increase my stomach-churning quotient for the day.
[IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?i=epLuE1[/IMG]
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