Lookin' Good

I've been working on the redesign all evening and it is now at something that is workable.

If you are curious, the "Extras" page contains all the links to sections no longer included in the main navigation.  Most of those sections weren't updated anymore, so it cleans up most of the clutter.

Hope you enjoy SMBHQ 2.0!

It's a start

I hope you like the beginnings of the redesign.  I will give it some polish when I have some more time (and ignore the broken extras link).

Change is coming

I decided that I will indeed go for a web 2.0 design for SMBHQ.

It won't be perfect, but it will be better than the site currently looks

Hmmmm....

I've been toying with the possibility of giving SMBHQ a complete overall (because you know it probably needs it).

However, the more I think of it, the more I realize that it will be a next to impossible task.

Oh well.

Darn It!

Good News: Amazon Associates is now integrated with Blogger, which would have been useful for posting purchase links on the News blog.

Bad News: It seems this integration only works for blogs hosted on the blogspot server.  Since SMBHQ's blogs publish straight to the site, we apparently can't use it.

Oh well.

We Want Your Questions!

It's been ages since we had a mailbag.  However, before doing so, we need some questions to answer.

Send your questions over to smbhqmailbag@gmail.com

Main Page Changed (Again)

I think this new change is better than the Twitter idea.  I found a site that combines all the feeds into one, so now you get one single update stream (without the need for the Twitter widget).

Hope you enjoy it.

So long Jay

For those of you that don't read the forums, Jay Resop has officially stepped down from all involvement with SMBHQ.

MetalMan has been running NC for the last few months and is expected to continue doing so.

Here's wishing Jay well in his future endeavors.

Main Page now Twitterfied

The updates on the main page is now a direct feed from SMBHQ's Twitter page.  With this new feature, all the site updates, blog posts, and news articles are combined into one stream.  The only downside is that I cannot set Twitterfeed (the site that automatically syncs the feeds to Twitter) to sync at an interval less than half an hour, so you will be seeing updates reported later than they actually happen.  That issue aside, I'm sure this new update will break SMBHQ further into Web 2.0.

Random Thoughts on Game & Watch

I received my Game & Watch Collection Club Nintendo reward yesterday (after spending nearly a year to accumulate enough points).

For games that are nearly 30 years old, they are still quite fun and addictive.  I was also amazed at the attention to detail that went into the Nintendo DS conversion (even going as far and adding "LCD shadows")

I really expected more activity during December.

I guess that's the holidays for ya.  I'll try to have something within the week.