So here it is. They said it could never happen. It almost didn’t happen. But welcome to the brand new, all-singing, all dancing hecklerspray 2.0.
As you can see, the site’s been tweaked here and there – the navigation is a little easier, there’s a carouselly thing on the right hand side and things generally don’t look like they were thrown together by a cack-handed pensioner who’d never seen a computer before. Oh, and it’s whiter.
After the jump: more explanation and THE GREATEST CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT VIDEO YOU WILL EVER SEE…
We’re still ironing out the odd kink in the system here and there, so it’ll take a few days to get everything looking completely shipshape. In the meantime, though, do let us know what you make of it – you’re the ones who have to look at the bloody thing, after all.
And, you know, it’s only a matter of time before we do a Facebook and start ripping off Twitter, so make the most of hecklerspray looking like this while you still can.
Anyway, sermon over. Now, as promised, here’s our new celebrity friend to tell you all of the above in a more succinct and generally amusing way:
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First!
Isn’t that what the kids are saying these days?
Why… it’s… it’s beautiful!
Yay! Hurray for new ‘spray look. Very nice.
My eyes! My beautiful, beautiful eyes…
pale in comparison to Hecklerspray’s post-lift face. I just hope that everything isn’t tied in a knot at the back.
SWEET! Very nicely done, Stuart
On a completely unrelated note: I ate the PB&J, but I’ve got pot roast now if you’re still hungry.
well… it’s better than new facebook, I suppose. Frankly, I was enjoying the kitten picture. Can we have that back instead?
Hurrah!
Thanks all. It’s not quite all there yet – we’ll have the sidebar looking better as soon as we can – so if any of you have any suggestions or notice something not working right, let me know and I’ll
BUST SOME HEADSpolitely enquire with people much cleverer than me.HTML tags rule, by the way.
If anyone is using Firefox (and is remotely interested) there are addons that make using Hecklerspray’s HTML (and other sites bbcode, XHTML, etc) comment boxes much easier to play about (and have fun) with.
(the above may or may not have become a titled link. I’m still playing with mine. My addons.)
Hey Stu,
Everything looks fab, very web 2.0
I love it! So much better, but a little bit less retro!
I don’t like change. I got my name as a result of the last person within arm’s reach who tried to change something.
More articles about Marilyn Monroe please. And no hate speech. Guten tag.
I’m
sureredesigns are supposed to be followed by a lot of outraged bitching and whining?I like it, so I won’t be the one to kick it off. I would like to know what the difference is between “most buzz” and “most popular”, though. I’m assuming it’s nothing to do with odour.
Like the tags also.
Any chance of an ‘all comments’ RSS feed? At least until you get the recent comments box a-going again?
Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.
not just a site redesign then?
I love the new look – But I really enjoyed having all the articles listed on the right! Not just the most popular – I liked being able to hang on your every word!
Ha – hadn’t noticed that AT ALL. Gone now – feel free to be horrible, dirty and off-topic. Within reason, mind you. No spam though, ta.
It’s so purty I just wet my pants in the cafe.
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thank the sloppy god of fuck for that.
HS is back!
Yay! Its good. And i like the stuff at the side.
…except that various links are broken.*
I take it back!
(*eg clicking a “top ten” link to cartoon characters 404s)
Sorry Markie – literally the second after I did it we changed URL structure and blah blah blah. Anyway, fixed now. Sorry and all that.
Quite a lot of it past the first page appears to be garbooned, however.
Last change for now – you can now reply to each other’s comments. See below here where it says ‘reply to this comment’? That means you can reply to this comment. Hopefully it should make conversations slightly easier. Or it might be a messy, messy balls up. Let’s find out.
Great, Heritage. Now I can save the same Evil Dead 2-style arguments with myself here that I do at home in the shack in the woods.
Will they be collapsed or expanded by default on pageload? Oh, hang on. I can just flush me cache and look for myself, can’t I? Yes I think I can. Unless I can’t.
Oh, look – it’s started already.
You meant to say ‘have’ didn’t you, you idiot?
-Who are you calling an idiot?
You. I mean me.
-I’ll idiot you in a minute mate.
Hey, as long as I wind up with a chainsaw for a hand, I don’t bloody mind, mate.
-Yeah? Well just remember its ‘Klaatu Barada Nikto’…idiot.
Saw comments RSS at very bottom of page. May have always been there. if so, then grovelling apologies.
(magnetite bows until forehead touches ground)
Dear Hecklerspray, is your favicon a sparrow (or similar) in flight or about to alight? Inquiring (but obviously not otherwise engaged) minds wish to know.
I think it’s a leaf. It’s a default one while we get a better one. It’s on the list, honest…
30 comments about our beautiful new website, but not one mention of the legendary Mr.T saying, “GRR-POW!”
He growled that for you people, he knows each of you by name. He said afterwards, “I really hope that Maddi and Ironlung like it.”
Oh wow, I was only gone for a week. I’m going to be honest and say I prefer the old layout but still, it’s a fine effort. The look is very clean but possibly a bit too white since it is now harder to distinguish between the various panels. Most annoying though (since I know you care) is the lack of any margin on the left hand side. The margin is literally 0 pixels, which means the page content starts right on the line of the browser window. A small margin to bring the content slightly into the page would make things a lot more readable. Anyway, good job, I’m sure I’ll be berating your hard work further over time as the bugs start to come out of the woodwork!