Posts Tagged ‘site update’

New kids and teenagers pages

Weve just rolled out new kids and teenagers pages in our family section. The kids page includes a stack of awesome reading and educational links – a definite must see for anyone with kids aged from 4 to 14, depending on reading level. Also we’ve now linked to Friv.com, widely regarded as the greatest free online kids games site ever! My own kids recommend it highly and I’ve seen them playing quite a few of the games. They’re all what I would term “safe” as well as being completely free and no signups required. If I wasn’t so busy working you know i’d be playing games *sigh*
Also as I mentioned, we have a new page devoted to teenagers as well. Covering a few issues that these wonderful people are concerned with: school and studying; nagging parents, building relationships with other young and not so young adults, and generally how to make the transition from childhood to young adulthood as painless as possible. I’m definitely looking for feedback on that page so if you have any stray teenagers please get them to cast a beady eye over it and let me know what they think. Thanks.
Also today we’ve installed a lifestyle page which will bring our gardening, food & recipes and all other hobbies and pastimes under one banner. We were getting too many Tabs across the top of the page when it wasn’t really warranted. I’m still not sure about having the food section lumped in there but Foodie really is a lifestyle choice for many people, and I don’t know of many good lifestyles that don’t include food as one of the core requirements. No smart comments about eating disorders please I do not count them as a good lifestyle choice Soon to be added under the lifestyle banner is a section devoted to collectors and collecting. I’m thinking stamps, comics, gemstones and maybe old music albums and old books. Definitely do not want to include people collecting teaspoons or tea towels at this point in time but if I get hassled enough then I may open it up. I’m sorting out a plugin that will allow us to post up people’s photos in a flip-page style photo album. Keep sending in those pics we’ve got a great collection now but please remember I will not post photos that you have “obtained” that allow people to be easily identified, unless you can assure me that they have told you it’s ok. Then by all means let’s get them up I’ve still kept advertising on the site to a bare minimum – just the occasional banner here and there. Some pages have no ads at all, and you won’t see page after page of column ads or text ads appearing to be articles. Real content is what we’re about so get stuck in and enjoy it. Oh yeah – just added a newsfeed from CNN, a word of the day and a quote of the day, so there’s plenty of fresh things to read every visit. It is not all beer and skittles round here I tell you. Ok I’ve laid it out for you to play it out – see you on the site. Peace.
Mike.