If you are reading this, it should be fairly obvious that Asphalt & Rubber has undergone a bit of an upgrade.
This redesign has been a long time coming, but we finally gave the old girl a sprucing up, just in time for her 10th birthday, which will be in October this year.
I won’t bore you with the technical and editorial advantages that A&R 2.0 brings us, though there are many, but from a reader’s standpoint there are a few things we want to highlight:
- Loads faster
- More stories on the front page
- Better category browsing
- Mobile and tablet friendly
- Photo galleries actually work (check it out at the end of this post)
- New storytelling formats
- Rich media friendly (videos, podcasts, etc)
- Way more cowbell
The full transition to the new layout and site will take a few more days to complete, so pardon our dust while we work. The basics should all be ready for you at this point though: reading stories, navigating categories, and commenting.
Our A&R Pro readers have been taking the new site for a spin this last month, and we have gotten a great deal of feedback from them and are already making those changes to the site.
Now that it is live for everyone, feel free to kick the tires on the new design and leave us your thoughts on the layout.
We know things like the A&R Pro pages, contact forms, and sidebar need some work. Those should be ready by the end of the Labor Day weekend, if not sooner.
A quick shout out to a few people who were instrumental at the various stages of this process, I doubt we would have gotten here without their hard work: Ivan Lo, Dustin Gibbs, Louda Peña, and Dan Lloyd. Many thanks to them for dealing with my reptile brain.
And as always, thank you dear readers for coming to Asphalt & Rubber every day. You all make the hard work worthwhile. Let’s all head to the comments section and sing kumbaya.
-JB
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