{"id":818,"date":"2011-11-16T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T22:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2012-06-05T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T16:52:04","slug":"time-for-a-vcg-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/818\/time-for-a-vcg-redesign","title":{"rendered":"Time for a <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> Redesign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/sitewide\/vcg_piclogo_small.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage Computing and Gaming Logo\" class=\"alignright\"\/><em>Vintage Computing and Gaming<\/em> has retained the same general site design, albeit with a few aesthetic changes, since it started in 2005.  Do you think it&#8217;s time to change the layout of the site?  Do you think I should add any features to the site to make it like more modern blogs?<\/p>\n<p>For <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>, my philosophy has long been, &#8220;If it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it.&#8221;  And I defintely don&#8217;t think the site is broken.  But perhaps it is time to modernize a few elements of the blog.  The thing I&#8217;d like to add most is a tag-based post system.  I think that would work better than post categories as they now stand.<\/p>\n<p>The commenting system works pretty well for the number of comments we get, so I don&#8217;t think we need a complex comment rating or moderation system at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>As for the current design, I like the fact that, because I haven&#8217;t added complex bells and whistles to the site&#8217;s software, <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> is easy to view on older computers with slightly older browsers.  It&#8217;s simple and it does the trick.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s put it this way: do you think if I redesigned the site that more people would read <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>?  (Although statistically speaking, we have more readers than ever.)  Is the design out of touch with a &#8220;modern&#8221; web audience?  Your thoughts count, so let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage Computing and Gaming has retained the same general site design, albeit with a few aesthetic changes, since it started in 2005. Do you think it&#8217;s time to change the layout of the site? Do you think I should add any features to the site to make it like more modern blogs? For VC&#038;G, my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[100,99,98],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements","tag-redesign","tag-site-notes","tag-vcg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}