Site layout change

As teased a ways back, I’ve finally overhauled the look of the site. I hope you like it. I do, so that’s something. The design is based on one from Movalog’s Style Generation, but I’ve done a fair bit of tweaking.

It’s only the blog section that’s changed (all the database pages are white, until I break down and change the style sheets there). Old links to old posts still should work, but eagle eye posters should know the main permalinks have changed. One slight addition are daily archive posts; if you’re researching something, and want to know I was writing about on a certain day, you just need to go to http://thecubsfan.com/cmll/updates/year/mm/dd/ (with actual date info, of course) to get an index of all posts from that day.

There’s a few things here besides the cosmetic that I want to point you towards, just to make sure you see ’em.

tags: at the end of each post, you may see a running list of names or places or events with links. If you click on them, they’ll bring you a search page of all posts where I’ve included that tag. For the most part, the tags only go back to November, and I’m not sure when/if I’ll redo them before that time (there’s just not an easy way to do it, as far as I’ve found.) It’s interesting if you’re just tracking back what’s been going on with one person or a title belt. All of the tags have their own RSS feeds, so if you’re just a fan of a particular foreigner who comes by and wants to be notified whenever there’s news about them, you can just grab the feed and get updates.

cheat sheet: The left and middle columns are basically every place I’m currently checking for news each day (though I don’t know if I’ll keep it updated). As you can see, there was a day where I gave up believing in google to grab lucha articles from papers, and started tracking all the El Sol papers myself. Reading thru 30 sports sections for 3-5 lucha articles a day is about what you’d think it’d be. The right column is a quick look at the non-news subsections I’m writing for the site, including the most recent TV Recaps, Weekly Lineups, Chicago Lucha shows, and a hourly updated list of the latest new/updated lucha lineups from the database. About half of the lineups/results I get don’t make it to the news updates, because they’re too minor or trival to clutter up the main page, but if you want to know them all, the last day of entries will always be updated there (and of course, I’ve got a RSS feed for that too.)

I don’t know if anyone (besides me) is going to use either of these things, but they’re there.

Comments: This version of MovableType has ditched the pop up comment entry – the comment link now points you to the already posted comments, and you’ll have to scroll down to the Post Comment boxes to add you’re own. I’m fine with it, but I’m not the one writing comments. If this is immensely annoying, let me know and I’ll work on it.

I’m sure there are a few things here and there I don’t have quite looking right – if there’s something that’s not working for you or just doesn’t seem like I probably intended it to be, leave a comment on this post or e-mail me.

The usual TV/Mexico round up should be up later today, and to celebrate today, I’m going to take care of another long teased bit later. (Thanks to another new feature – pre-scheduled posts.)

Thanks for visiting the site.

(I’ll miss the purple.)