BWA-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa!
Ain’t it pretty?
We hope you’ll think so. The redesign of irishphiladelphia.com started way back in April–when, presumably, we had recovered from the rigors of St. Patrick’s Day.
Why’d we do it? Well, in part for the same reason people buy new living room furniture, paint the bedroom, or install a new granite kitchen countertop. After nearly five years of web wonderfulness–yes, five!–we kind of got tired of the old look and thought it might be nice to spruce things up a bit.
But we also did it for the same reason people clean out the hallway closet, get rid of all the old baby clothes, and sort out their file drawer. We wanted to get rid of clutter and organize things so they’d be easier to find.
We think we’ve done both.
So on the surface, of course, you’ll see a new look, including a snazzy logo and our stunning St. Patrick’s blue. (Bet you didn’t know there was such a color.) But under the slick new surface, you’ll find improved organization of all of our topic areas, better organized and more useful presentations of our pub finder and gift shop finder, easier ways to share our stories on social media like Facebook, more intuitive display of comments, and a spiffy new “carousel” at the top of the home page that lets you see our latest stories at a glance. There’s more than that, of course, but it’s almost too geeky for even us to go into.
We’ve also installed two stunning ways to–ahem–buy advertising on the site, with one big fat honkin’ ad space at the top of every page, and a really large ad space at right. If you want to know more (and we hope you will want to know more), check out our advertising page.
We’ve also improved how we look on smartphones. So anytime you want, you can yank out your Droid, plug “irishphiladelphia.com” into your browser, and–voila!–even more geeky coolness.
We sincerely hope you like what you see. And you can share your comments with us, below.
Thanks!