In a month or so, it will be a year since I revamped TBJ, moving from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress.

I was very proud of the new TBJ, it was much sleeker than my Blogger site, since I had a lot more control over the layout and content. Of course, it took me ages to reverse-engineer the template that I butchered, but I got there in the end. But, you know how it goes… lately I’ve been getting antsy again, and decided it was time for a change.

Goodbye, old TBJ!


Preserved here for posterity!

As you can see, the new front page is more magazine-style, with post summaries rather than entire novels. I’ve added thumbnails to the excerpts (but I cheated, and only added them to the first batch of posts.. heh). I’ve also added a few bits and pieces – the ability to “rate” posts and vote comments up/down, and the little “share” panel on each post. I’ll need to change my restoguide to fit the new format, but I was going to fix it up a bit anyway.

The new layout gives me more space, and the sidebars will allow me to post key features – like updates to my guide, or other cool things that I want people to have easy access to.

Please be kind, I was up until the early hours tweaking (read: hacking) – but if you do find any bugs or problems, let me know. In particular, I’m hoping that my full posts still go through to everyone’s feeds, so if you have any problems with that, I’d appreciate the feedback.



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