UPDATE: The big site changes are still afoot, but have been more challenging than I expected, so they’ll have to trickle in over the week.
As you’ll infer from what’s been done so far, I’m rearranging the ad structure. Yes, they’ll be a bit more intrusive, but to keep this up, it’s going to have to start paying for some of the time I’ve put into it over the past 5 years, so I’m afraid the ads will get a bit more prominent – or at least, I’m going to start selling banner ads.
Again, I appreciate your patience in all this especially if your viewing this using Internet Explorer… I have no idea why the big white spaces – wish I had a $%#%@&# test server). Stay tuned…
Big changes afoot for GMD in 2011, and they start this weekend. Expect the site to be largely down (or crazy-messed-up looking) tomorrow (Sunday the 2nd).
Monday the third, it’ll look prettier than ever – with a couple big announcements (Not quite yet).
Thanks for your patience, everybody.
…’cause I’m sure there will be unicorns. And rainbows! That’s worth the wait. :-))
Seriously — breathe deeply and good luck. Making these kinds of changes is a BEAR.
I can’t believe you let the GMD Marketing Department talk the CEO into making changes to this website.
GMD works just fine and is (mostly) accessible by dialup, the method of connection that a majority of Vermonters have to use because the ISPs refuse to modernize the state.
I expect the Marketing Department talked the CEO into making it a huge Flash-heavy site that no one on dialup can see…
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – and GMD ain’t broken!
Be like Obama and don’t change one single thing!
Hi!
I am a Montrealer who spends a fair amount of time in Vermont and love reading your blog to stay on top of Vermont politics.
Anyhow, I believe you are running WordPress so if you want to set up a test server just follow the instructions here:
http://return-true.com/2010/09…
If you are running something like Drupal or Joomla you can still use Xamp to set up a test server. It works quite well as I use this set up regularly.
Happy New Year! Keep up the great work.
Mark