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X-E’s latest design is active!

Ahhhh, we're finally finished. The new design is up and active, and there's a couple of changes to take note of...

It's a pretty massive change, actually. X-E has been using the small rectangle picture links since it began in 2000, and while it's always hard to let go of something as touching and meaningful as a 1.5" rectangular jpg containing snapshots that can rarely be seen, I thought it was time for a change. Article links now use slightly larger pics, title bars, and are alloted more space for me to explain what's inside. I'm sure some of you might be a little "ehhh" on the switch, but I definitely think it's for the best. There's a couple of things left to tweak, but be sure to scroll around the right side of the page -- I added a few new commercial downloads that haven't been made available on the site before. (or anywhere else online, most likely) I tried to cut some of the unnecessary gaga near the middle of the page, so now you just got a straight list of links and won't have to play Pong with your eyeballs to find out what's new. Enjoy.

Course, the driving reason behind this was to create an environment that's more conductive to frequent updating. I think that's been accomplished. Over the next few weeks, we'll see if I'm right!

Oh, and HAPPY FRIGGIN' NEW YEAR! We sat at home like losers till midnight, spending the holiday with Dick Clark and his ten trillion terrible skits with poorly rendered M&M's characters. We ended up going out at around 2 AM, partying for like 45 minutes, and waking up in an apartment that wasn't our own. I was groggy and didn't realize it from our surroundings, but the fact that our blankets didn't reek of smoke told differently.

PS -- if you weren't able to dL the commercial in the Turtles Cereal article, it should work now.

Posted by Matt on 01/01/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 43 comments

Overall I like the new design. The pac-man maze rules. However the buttons for the different sections look too clutered imo.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/01/2004 11:35 PM

I likes it. The clutter Noah spoke of, IMO, reflects the site perfectly. Everything about X-E takes two looks to really get. The new article format list rocks, too.

Chestnuts roasted by Plaid @ 01/01/2004 11:40 PM

The new page looks great! I too partied…(if you want to call it that) at home for new years, but fortunately I did wake up at my own place. Happy New Year!

Chestnuts roasted by hugsntuff @ 01/02/2004 12:05 PM

DUDE KICK ASS i love the new setup

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 01/02/2004 12:13 PM

but… weres the archives?

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 01/02/2004 12:14 PM

I will be archiving some of the articles this week, some the next, some the next, and so on and so on. Using the same new layout for the chronological archives to start, and then when I have 5,000 years to spare, the real archives. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/02/2004 12:27 PM

Happy New Year!!

Now, what the hell is this: http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com

????

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 01/02/2004 12:39 PM

I can’t see it. Maybe it’s because I’m at work & our network is terrible. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 01/02/2004 12:40 PM

Mike, speaking not being able to see something, what happened to your advent? I was looking forward to the rest and now I can’t find it.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 01/02/2004 12:42 PM

I found out the problem. Matt, your new index page is index.html, & the Christmas one is called index.htm …so it still loads by default on my computer, & probably a ton of others. You might want to get rid of it or rename it or something.

As for the Christmas project formerly known as the advent calendar, work got in the way. A lot. So I couldn’t finish in time. So I improvised.

http://www.poprocksandcoke.com/christmas/

Starting this coming week I’m going to shoot for one update a week for now, to see how I can handle it.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 01/02/2004 12:51 PM

Eh, it’s odd, like I’m only looking at links to the mega-kamehameha-stupendous articles and features like the Thanksgiving Parade reviews or the Advent Calendar and not the normal articles, but I’m sure that I’ll get used to it soon enough. :)

Anyhow, today, the Scream channel in Canada, which mainly shows horror movies, was showing apocalyptic end of the world pictures for New Year’s, and one of the films was 1989′s http://www.deep-focus.com/flicker/miraclem.html">Miracle Mile, about events that transpire in Los Angeles when a guy played by Anthony Edwards picks up a ringing pay phone and gets a "wrong number" guy from a missile silo whom, thinking he’s talking to his father and not some random guy, tells the guy that the missiles will be launching in an hour. I’ve seen bits and pieces of Miracle Mile, but never bothered to watch all of the way through. Anyhow, I thought Anthony Edwards’ girlfriend seemed familiar but couldn’t quite place it, until I was looking up reviews. Holy crap! It’s Mare Winningham, the "star" of the Playmobile Advent Calendar… well, at least you pretend she is the star.

Anyhow, Happy New Year to Matt and everyone.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 01/02/2004 12:53 PM

Yeah, Happy New Year, Guys. Now I just get used to writing 2004. Writing checks will be hell.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 01/02/2004 12:56 PM

I must say, I likes the new look. Pacman is quite awesome, but I gotta agree that the icons look a bit cluttered. Maybe if they were a bit smaller? But I’m just knit-picking… I guess I just miss Gizmo.

Chestnuts roasted by James F.W. @ 01/02/2004 12:58 PM

The new commercials were great. The Autobot three-wheeler ad is something I’ve been dying to see ever since the old review. Ditto for Pac-Cereal.

Chestnuts roasted by Jag @ 01/02/2004 1:27 AM

Wow, I *really* like this one, even better than the X-Mas version. It’s just craziness from top to bottom. Good luck with the print column.

Chestnuts roasted by Mallow @ 01/02/2004 1:30 AM

"Now, what the hell is this: http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com"

What the hell??! Thats some crazy ass whack randomness!! Freaking weird!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/02/2004 1:52 AM

Matt, whatever you do, please please please keep the paper homemade Krang up at the top; I grin whenever I see it. That thing is awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/02/2004 2:20 AM

The new design is different, but I’m pretty sure I like it.

Now, that http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com reminds me of http://www.superbad.com for some reason, just a whole lot creepier.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 01/02/2004 3:35 AM

love the new look totally awesome

Chestnuts roasted by the corinthian @ 01/02/2004 5:27 AM

"Type in any word: I guarantee you, you’ll find somethin."

not for ‘shingle’.

Chestnuts roasted by akbarium @ 01/02/2004 9:51 AM

This is the best look X-E’s had yet. The new design rocks in an extreme manner.

Chestnuts roasted by Rood @ 01/02/2004 2:10 PM

I like the new design as well, nice and clean. But the first person was right about how the section links on the top of the page look clustered.

Chestnuts roasted by Big Will @ 01/02/2004 2:20 PM

The new look is kinda fancy.

Love having Bumblebee up at the top too.

Its appropriate, since its the 20th Anniversary of the Transformers!

Chestnuts roasted by Bloodcat @ 01/02/2004 4:54 PM

Hey this new design is Pac-Mantacular!

Change that part that says "we ended up going out yadda yadda…" to "we ended up doing it."

Chestnuts roasted by shemgokun @ 01/02/2004 5:55 PM

Hm, not sure if this has been mentioned before, but has anyone been having problems getting sound in some of the recent commercial downloads? During the Xmas countdown it seemed like I couldn’t get every third commercial to play right, but most were okay… I wouldn’t have mentioned it, but now I can’t get the TMNT sound to play and that bloody sucks. :( Are you encoding some files differently, Matt?

Oh, and love the new site design, Matt. Kudos!

Chestnuts roasted by Wes @ 01/02/2004 6:01 PM

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