Guillotine

So I decided to finally get around to doing a few fixes, adding some new things, and generally much needed attention.

Item A:

Finally figured out why the site only allowed you to read the first few posts in a category. The theme designer failed to include <previous> and <next> page links in the theme. After fooling with the files they supplied with no effort due to the strange way the designer coded the pages I finally decided it would be easier to pull the files needed from the default wordpress theme and reverse engineer them to look like the original theme. So now there are navigation links at the bottom of each page to allow reading of older articles (and it also allowed me to ditch that stupid calendar widget since that was the only way to go back before).

Item B:

I have  reduced the logo size by 30% because I’ve had some criticism that you can’t see enough of the content without scrolling when the page first loads. Can’t do much more with it at this point other than getting rid of the ad banner, but that placement was the whole idea of choosing this theme in the first place, so it stays. lol

Item C:

Cleaned up some of the old ads in the sidebar. Got rid of any that haven’t gotten any attention. Hopefully this will speed up the page load a bit (not that I ever had any complaints to begin with).

Item D:

Added an Anime News Network RSS feed to the sidebar. Just decided to put some real headlines on the page. Since I usually try to write about things that they don’t cover I feel they are more of an ally than competition, so it seems like a good thing to have.

Item E:

Added tag cloud… Just for fun… The sidebar was looking bare after removing the calendar.

Other small changes I made were the Japanese text in the logo, and above the ad bar. The text in the logo is just the site name “Girochin” (Guillotine in Japanese), and the text above the ads is “koukoku” which means “advertisement”… The word “sponsors” seemed boring.

I think that’s about it for changes. I hope to spend more time on the site, and post more. It’s just been such a slow time for anime news these days it seems like all anime site’s article counts are down lately. So thanks for reading, and hopefully you continue to support the site. Also, if anyone wants to trade back links feel free to email me.

P.S. One more change… I disabled comments due to the seemingly unending flood of Russian spam and Viagra links.