Site Updates November 2009

You’ve seen this site getting a lot of updates this month, you can read about the design changes in Very Orange Update and about galleries in Introducing Galleries. But I’m not done yet!

Besides some minor design updates like color shade of the background and sidebar updates, I have three things to talk about today. Let’s begin with the two new pages that you can now see in the site navigation, Events and Japan Blogs.

Events

The events page shows concerts, conventions, idol birthdays and pretty much anything else that is related to Japan and myself. Anyone with an account can add events to the page, but I’m not really expecting anyone to do so^^. It’s mainly there so I can keep track of things easily. It’s a work in progress and nothing special really, but maybe you’ll find it useful too. You’ll definitely find my plans there while I’m in Japan.

Japan Blogs

I made this page for you guys, I’m eventually going to remove my sidebar blogroll because let’s face it, it’s just link love, it’s not really useful and doesn’t generate a lot of clicks. Similar to austrian otaku’s Live Blogroll, I want to show your content, since that generates a lot more clicks. I didn’t want to show just a list however, I wanted images and a nice layout. And as I just a couple of days ago received an invite to a private preview from the kind people at feedly, I decided to roll with their solution. You can also see a normal blogroll below that lists all the featured blogs.

Now of course when I remove the blogroll from my sidebar, I’m going to have to put something else there. Since the space was used to show other blogs, I intend to continue to do that. I’m thinking some kind of rotation of the very same RSS feeds that are featured on this page. Perhaps daily or weekly feeds. But if you have any ideas let me know :)

About Me

The about page is a page that is always a work in progress, and this time I’ve given it a rather big update. Besides editing and adding some text to the introduction, there are five new sections on the page:

What I Do
A little more about me, what I do and what my goals are.
Guest Blogging/Collaborations
A list of blogs I am or have written for or have helped in other ways (such as designing and consulting).
Photography
Basically what I take photos of and what equipment I use.
My Mascots
A little info about my two mascots.
History of yonasu.com
A slideshow of previous designs.

You’ll also see that I’ve removed the Profile section, I have however saved my favorites which can be accessed by clicking on my picture.

This is everything I’ve had planned in terms of pages and news, so besides some minor updates to these new pages we’ll probably not see anything new in a while, except for new posts of course!