New Look

Well, as you’ve seen, I’ve implemented a new site look. I’ve taken away the frames look that has been here forever, and replaced it with a frameless version. I did this for a couple of reasons. As I have moved so much of the site into MovableType blogging software, the need for a framed menu became less important. The old menu on the left side is now on the right side. It will be there on every page (once everything is properly coded, which it isn’t yet). Furthermore, some sections of the site haven’t been updated yet, and navigation might look odd. These include the seat selector, and old schedule archives. As the old schedule archive comprise roughly 1,400 pages (that’s 7 seasons at roughly 200 updates per season), I might just leave them alone and go forward – need to think about that, as updating all those pages will be a boatload of work, and the old schedule archives aren’t looked at very much at all anyway.
Another reason for this is that I’ve been having some serious problems getting Google to crawl my site since I went to rangerfans.com from rangers.siegler.net, and according to docs at Google, this should help.
Finally, now that I’ve removed the black menu on the left, I find tha an all white background is somewhat harsh on my eyes. It’s like the black that was there before was a nice contrast, keeping all the white in check. I’ll probably need to play further and pick a new background colour instead of all white.
Do you have any thoughts on this? Anyone even reading this site anymore? :)