# The New Hotness...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2010-09-21
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2010/09/the-new-hotness/

[![The New Hotness...](https://analogindustries.com/images/ext/farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4880411472_9bcf260c45.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisrandall/4880411472/)

After threatening to do this for more than a year, we've finally flipped this site. It's a fairly extensive redesign, going right down to the bones. All the .jsp pages are gone, replaced with .php innards. As a result of this switch, some of your links may not be working correctly; you'll need to update them accordingly.

The RSS feed, which we cloned to Feedburner, needs to be updated as well if you're rocking the old one. The new RSS feed is [here.](http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AnalogIndustries)

As far as commenting goes, everything should work like it did. You might have to clear your cache or press the refresh button a couple times to get everything lined up. If you're about to post a comment that says "hey, Feature X looks all fucked up" then press refresh or clear your cache before you do; this new version of the site has been tested for a couple months, and should be fairly clean.

You'll note new links on the right. All the remaining T-shirts are in the AI Shop, and that's where new stuff will go when we make it. The Free Shit page is for exactly that; I've put a few odds and ends up for now, with more coming. We've also added a mailing list, and a much better archive and search mechanism.

On the left side of each post, you'll note the Twitter and Facebook auto-links. The Twitter one uses our custom link shortener (I was voting for an.al but I didn't get far on that quest) and I don't know what the fuck the Facebook one does, as I don't use that soul-sapping mess of a service, but my wife assures me it's quite handy and attractive.

The final major new feature is a full mobile version. This has been tuned for the iPhone, but it should be equally happy with any smartphone. There is a browser check at log-in, and if a mobile browser is detected, it defaults to the mobile site. You can, however, view either one from your phone or mobile device.

So, big ups to the missus, @ellerandall, who has been working on her bespoke blogging back end for a couple years now, with this site as the crown jewel. Have a look around and see what's what with the new hotness.

## Comments (10)

**synthetic** (2010-09-21):

Wow, it's like web 3.0 in here.

**studio nebula** (2010-09-21):

Very nice. I love the colored mouse-over logos, or whatever you call them.

--Adam

**White Box Volume** (2010-09-21):

Smooth! Thanks for the free stuff - I'll be d/ling soon.

**ungeheier** (2010-09-21):

Interesting. Won't give it a full thumbs up until messing around a bit on here.

Also too, Link to RSS feed shows THIS post, but once I subscribe over to google it shows the Axion update as the newest post. =

**Glenn** (2010-09-21):

Oooooo, very nice! I like it. A lot. Very, very clean, without being boring. Well done.

**rollmottle** (2010-09-21):

Very well done sir.

Minor niggle: link the "NEW" indicator next to the comment count on the main page view. I keep going to click it because it looks so clickable.

**Chris Randall** (2010-09-21):

@rollmottle: I didn't have shit to do with it. My wife did virtually everything. I wrote the "About" page, and that's pretty much it.

Thanks, though.

-CR

**rollmottle** (2010-09-21):

Well, good job on marrying her.

And kudos to her. I work as a UI designer professionally myself and this is some top notch, well thought-through shit.

**D' MacKinnon** (2010-09-21):

Nice, I like the new look. Hurray for larger text on high res monitors!

**ungeheier** (2010-09-21):

@CR looks much better after seeing the flickr photo from home.