I will still work on sites from time to time, but it’s more to help out friends or worthy causes. It was a nice idea, but it’s time to put Etation Media to rest.

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You can read my article on their attempts to strong-arm me here.

The goal is to have a simpler navigation and open up some space on the right side of the page where the navigation has been and still is. I’ve been visiting CNN so much lately I just had to copy some design elements.

So try out what’s there and let let me know what you think.

You will not see sub-categories in the category listing until you visit a category. Then that category’s sub-categories are displayed. This should make it faster to navigate to where you want to go, or if that doesn’t work out well I can always change it to a dynamic Javascript-driven fold-out display. So let me know if you would like to see something like that instead.

Some new categories or changes of note:

• Post links were changed from being based on the date of a post to being based on the category of a post. A plugin was installed to redirect all posts to the new format, so you shouldn’t notice any issues at all.
• Categories are no longer located in the “category” sub-folder, and they now reside in the main directory. This will make it easier to brand each section of JasonBlogs.com with a unique category logo and explanation of the section.
• There is now a Development category where I will post tips or scripts I come across, and the Projects section is now part of that. Projects is where I post about anything I am currently working on.
• Radio Firefox show postings are now under Technology.
• Web/Tech was renamed Technology, with a sub-category called Web.
• Many videos were moved to a sub-category of the new Videos section. They could apply to other categories but instead they will be tagged with relevant tags.
• Interviews are now under Business. These are original interviews and I will be adding a few more to them. I could have added them to the Thoughts category, but the interviews aren’t my own thoughts.

So in summation: categories were changed around, and the tag cloud is the new way you will be able to find items that could have previously been in multiple categories. There will eventually be a tag for most things you could be looking for. I will also be tweaking the site design. The right-side navigation will become cleaner, and the new categories will be clearly marked.

This is what happens when I go to an advertising conference. I start thinking of ideas to improve this site. Hopefully they will work better and drive up readership.

This episode is a recording of the Thursday, August 31st show from 9pm to 12am. In this episode I discuss topics that include: Making the most out of Google Calendar, Calgoo, Starcraft 2, Marketing tips, useful Firefox extensions, and introducing the Wheel of Misfortune. I also talk about my summer trip to San Diego that included a visit to Comic Con.

Download it here directly or listen to it online here or above.

I figure that this is a way for me to make a little money off of the site, but without using something like Google’s AdSense. You get relevant product links automatically inserted in my posts when the page has finished loading.

Hopefully it’s not too late notice and some of you can listen. The time was 9PM EST when I first posted this, and I will be on until 12AM.

Episode 7 of Radio Firefox talks about Google Finance and Writely (now Google Docs and Spreadsheets), among other things. It is from the Wed, March 23rd show.
Download it here directly, or listen to it online here.

A big thing I forgot to mention is that I have been unhappy with the way comments are displayed on the site for a long time. The new theme gives each comment a nice block, and my own comments have a light blue background so that they stand out as official replies. This alone would have been worth the changes.