Monday, January 24, 2011

A Quick Intro to the New Site


Welcome back everyone, to the new and improved Alt-Tab.  Pretty exciting day, and I'm glad its finally here.  I've literally been working on getting this done every weekend since November, always thinking it would be done in one more week and wondering if I should alert the readers.  Glad I didn't, I'd have felt like a Bill Simmons follower waiting for his NBA Eastern Conference review that he promised back before Thanksgiving.

When I was finally able to come to grips with the fact that I am not as talented as Mark Zuckerberg, I broke down and contacted a real web designer for some help.  The result is this. Make of it what you will, I like it though.

Overall its a fairly cosmetic change, much like a Hollywood face lift, sure we look better now, but underneath we're still very much the amateurish bloggers just trying to fit in with the rest of the internet crowd.  Up top you'll notice a new navigation row.  You obviously know what home does.  Contributors takes you to the archive pages of The Maestro (1 and 1 this weekend, he's improving folks!) and PennyPacker (a whopping 1 contributions to date), along with the complete list of CW's Office Musings and Advice columns, and finally the Alt-Tab Shoppe (yes we've gone old school English).  The Contact Us button is for Contacting The Alt-Tab. Come people, keep up.

To the right there is a veritable cornucopia of social buttons, I'm personally not sure what half of them do, but I've been assured my trusty Digg button is still in there, along with tweet this and share this on Facebook...not that any of you will. Finally, our amateurish "follow us on Facebook and Twitter buttons have been replaced with adult-contempo designs. 

Well I think that about covers it, you can get back to browsing and slacking off at work.  If  your job happens to pay you especially well feel free to pop over to The Alt-Tab Shoppe and support a poor bloggers dream of one day quitting his desk job (mugs, t-shirts, and stickers thus far).  Any suggestions for new designs or submissions are welcome (Maestro just barely escaped a "Fade the Maestro" inspired line with his win in the early game yesterday).