I am very thrilled to be able to announce our new look front page. This will hopefully give us a much more professional appearance and help to get people interested in some of our older lists.
The changes include links to Amazon for some of the popular books listed on the site, as well as links to the lists which featured them. We have also split up the your view topics from the lists, and administrative posts are also separate. Over time I will add more books to the list, and extend the most popular lists to 30 or so.
The changes should make the pages load much faster (though we are currently experiencing a speed glitch, so it won’t be obvious until that is fixed).
The front page also now features hot topics from the forums - which will help to boost the numbers visiting there - and they are definitely worth the visit.
I have tested the page in Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 2, Safari 3 (Windows and Mac), Opera 9, Internet Explorer 6, and Internet Explorer 7. If you use any of these browsers (or any others for that matter) and experience problems, please be sure to let me know so that I can fix them.
The next step for me will be to look at the sidebar and article pages to see if they need updating.
I hope you all find the new look useful.
译文:
首页的新版式------【Top List】
我非常激动地宣布我们新版式的首页诞生了。这个首页旨在希望给我们展现一种更专业的形象，帮助引导人们对我们的老排行产生兴趣。
新的变化包括亚马孙网站畅销书排行的链接，还有以这些畅销书为主要内容的链接。我们把你们的评论话题从排行榜分开，管理帖子也隔离开来了。过段时间我会添加更多的书到榜单上去，把最畅销书籍榜单扩大到30左右。
新的变化会使网页下载得更快（尽管我们目前有个小小的差错，只有改变就不会成为大问题），热门话题也会从论坛中选出，放在首页显著的位置--这样可以帮助提高访问量--事实上也确实值得一看。
我已经用火狐2、火狐3、游猎3（windows和Mac），还有Opera9、IE6、IE7测试过网页。如果您使用上面这些浏览器（或者其他同类型的）遇到了问题，麻烦通知一下，我这样就可以完善网页。
我的下一步打算是检查工具条和文章网页，看看是否需要更新。
我真心希望您能够感受到新版式的实用。