A warm welcome to the new home of Tokyo Times. After a few days of adjusting to Movable Type (ok, a week or so of head scratching, shouting, and incredible frustration), the site is now working something like it should. I hope.
If I’ve done everything right, pages should be noticeably quicker loading. And fingers crossed, the comments system will be slightly faster. Although during testing it wasn’t exactly what I’d call quick. We’ll see how it goes.
Yet despite the new surroundings, the content I’m afraid will be of a similar nature and quality. You can’t have everything you know!
jonathan says
And very nice it looks too Lee! Well worth all your effort.
I was going to ask you who the team featured on your banner was- but then had the bright idea of looking in your ‘sports’ section, and found the post the picture originally appeared in- so now know these are fans of Tokyo FC singing their adopted anthem ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ a la Liverpool FC.
So there’s one more interesting snippet of Japanese pop culture I have found via Tokyo Times! Looking forward to many more to come.
Lee says
Thanks!
I’m glad you like the design. It took me that long to figure things out that it won’t be changing for quite some time!
The picture was taken on the opening game of the first stage of this season if I remember correctly. Although thankfully the 2 stage season will be no more come next year. I think the game is mature enough now to deal with a standard league set-up.
I need to get to more games, but I’ve just got Sky and finally getting to see Bolton on a regular basis means that Tokyo FC are going to have to play a very poor second fiddle.
If they get a big crowd though, the redition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” is almost wworth the admission fee in itself. Which depending on the game can be as little as a fiver. Not bad value at all.
Well, thanks again for the kind words Jonathan. It’s certainly makes me feel better for all the time I’ve spent changing things over.
midnight says
Hey, really liking the new look!
pam says
The new design looks great!
David St Lawrence says
Great looking design, Lee!
I find your writing consistently interesting.
The best part for me is that it is almost always informative and amusing.
Keep up the good work!
James says
Very nice, Lee. And yes, it does load faster. 🙂
James says
Looks good, Lee. It does seem to load faster too. 🙂
therg says
hey. wered the poll go?
Lee says
Thank you all very much. With the effort it took I’m glad the design has been well received. And I’m very happy it loads a little faster too, although judging by your double post James, maybe the comments sytem isn’t all that fast!
And as for the poll therg, er yeah, good point. Not sure what to do about that. Depends how it will fit in with the design. I’ll give it some thought.