by generalsjoes | Apr 19, 2009 | Web Stuff
I just wanted to let everyone know that from the week of Monday, April 20th through Friday, April 24th, the news and reporting at GeneralsJoes may be lagging behind a bit. I’m starting a very intensive training program for my full-time job this week, which will leave me isolated from the internet pretty much all day. I will likely do a nightly “news roundup” with some quick links to that days breaking stories, but unfortunately the timely and “first reporting” news posts you’re used to will be a bit behind the eight ball, however only for four days. While that’s happening, I encourage you to hit up the plethora of other great Joe news sites, including the ones I have below. Enjoy Resolute this week, you’ll be hearing from me, just not as much…maybe for many of you that’s a good thing.
Trust me, I’ll be back in time for the Resolute airing this weekend with all of the opinions and news that you’re used to. Thanks much for the increased traffic as my site has swiftly migrated to a more news-based setup, hopefully everyone likes the changes!
by generalsjoes | Mar 15, 2009 | Dio-Stories, G.I. Joe, Life, Web Stuff
GeneralsJoes was born many years ago with a very specific purpose and foundation. The original Angelfire site (yes it’s still up, amazingly enough, and the profiles page and customs page can still be accessed) was originally a showcase for my customs that evolved into a figure profile and review site after I was the first person to find the new Joes at a local Toys “R” Us in late 2000. From there, it spawned into my dio-story hub, while reviews continued along.
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by generalsjoes | Feb 22, 2009 | Web Stuff
Okay, let’s see how many posts I can toss up here with no real content or information… :shifty:
I think I’ve finally got the new theme all ironed out. I did some database optimizing and some speed tweaks, so performance should be considerably better. Please let me know if it’s not. I also added a new Image Randomizer script up above, so the banner images will be randomly displayed when you hit the site. A silly little thing (and I’ve only got 2 banners right now, so you may not see much variety) but something I’ve wanted to mess around with a bit.
I may still hork around with the font colors a bit, I’m not sure yet about the different shades of gray, but I think more or less we’re good to go.
by generalsjoes | Feb 22, 2009 | Web Stuff
Okay, I think I’ve got most of the tweaking done for the day. I may swap colors around a bit if people don’t like some things, but as of right now, I think we’re stable. Tiger’s gone, too. :shifty:
Thanks for your patience!
by generalsjoes | Feb 22, 2009 | Web Stuff
As you may have noticed if you’ve stopped by the site today, things are looking a bit funky…and there’s a tiger up there.
I’m messing with the themes a little bit, so you may see some sporadic wonkyness today. I love the layout, but there are some glitches with image alignment and the fluid-width stuff that’s not blowing my skirt up, so I’m messing with things a bit.
Thanks for your patience, I’ll have this either revamped or back to normal by tomorrow.
by generalsjoes | Feb 5, 2009 | Web Stuff
I’ve really liked the new “look” of GeneralsJoes, but there’s always been a limitation to the width of the central column, which was affecting how the pages were coming out. I got a bit sick of dealing with that, so I moved to a more “flexible” width WordPress theme and added some drop-down menus as well through css for easier access. It’ll also give somewhat easier click-access to widgets in the sidebars if wanted.
Anyway…hopefully this will give me a bit more flexibility and help the page not look so screwy. The Brandon Jerwa interview really showed me that this center column was way too narrow.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
