Just in Time for E3, A New GTPlanet
With the announcements and interviews expected to begin pouring out of E3 2010 on Tuesday, next week could be the most exciting ever for GT fans around the world. To kick things off, I’m proud to launch the first major revision to GTPlanet in more than two years. Over the past 6 months, I’ve personally crafted this custom set of templates for our news blog, forum, and guides, and I hope you’re as happy with the finished product as I am. As you look around, watch for these new features on the blog:
- You can now reply to specific comments on blog posts by clicking on the “Reply” link below the comment text. Your post will then appear immediately below it, indented slightly. This will make it easier to directly attack trolls and answer questions. My comments will also be highlighted.
- “Previous” and “Next” links are now available when viewing image galleries posts, so you can just keep clicking the link without having to track down the thumbnail of each image you want to see. Here’s a good example.
- The most popular posts, as judged by the number of comments over the past 30 days, are displayed in the sidebar.
- Links to related posts are now displayed above the comment section, which should help draw your attention older news, screenshots, or videos that you may have missed.
As always, please let me know if you spot anything broken or out of place. Meanwhile, I’ll be composing a post for tomorrow that provides everything you need to know about E3, including links to all the live streams and a word about what to expect from GTPlanet’s own exclusive coverage (yep, we’ll have our own man on the show floor this year!).
And yes, as of posting we’re still waiting for video of the Le Mans demo to be uploaded from France. For now, enjoy these two pictures:
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June 15th, 2010 at 3:09 am - #George Washington
I’m using brand new iMac. It would be better to “sum up” the article in a few sentences that would fit, rather than just cut off the beginning text of the article.
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June 15th, 2010 at 3:13 am - #George Washington
Long live the desktop, thumb-twitchers!
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June 14th, 2010 at 6:31 pm - #George Washington
truncated news text is annoying
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June 14th, 2010 at 8:49 pm - #d3br34k5
A little bit, but it’s only one finger over .001″ to scroll back and forth on my Touch Pro. A pinch would do on an iPhone.
If it’s bothering you and you’re using a PC, you need a new monitor.
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June 14th, 2010 at 5:39 pm - #idlestation
Its definitely an improvement.. nice job jordan =)
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June 14th, 2010 at 5:17 pm - #Darin Gangi
Hey Jordan, We’ll be at E3 as well covering GT5.. Maybe we’ll see your guy there..
Nice new look of the site !
Darin Gangi
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June 14th, 2010 at 4:38 pm - #Cort
Proper nice.
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June 14th, 2010 at 1:31 pm - #danielwhite74
To be honest, I preferred the old layout. It looked more slick and easy on the eye.
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June 14th, 2010 at 12:48 pm - #oldmodelt
Nice new look, Jordan. I even checked out the chat room last night.
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June 14th, 2010 at 10:24 am - #TuneR-
Nice, new look! Great work!
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June 14th, 2010 at 8:44 am - #Razor
Jordan> what tools you use for creating and managing this site?
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June 14th, 2010 at 7:00 am - #dk_banaah
The Planet looks great!!
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June 14th, 2010 at 5:32 am - #witham
Jordan you have outdone yourself the new website looks great, thanks a lot :)
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June 14th, 2010 at 5:10 am - #Acid X
The only thing i can see wrong with the comment system is that you have all of your comments on the same page – Good for people who don’t like multiple pages, bad for people with slow connections.
Haha. :)
Looking great though, Jordan!
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June 14th, 2010 at 4:56 am - #hot-wok
I’m sorry but I think it needs some more polishing, I dont like how the tabs at the top look like and what happened to the gtplanet logo? It’s all fuzzy and wierd.
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June 14th, 2010 at 4:47 am - #Autavia
Clean, easy and necessities only. Good.
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June 14th, 2010 at 4:21 am - #Forenza
Yea the iPhone/iPod touch mobile version needs a touchup (i always check gtplanet on it vs the computer). Other than that, we all appreciate your work Jordan =)
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June 14th, 2010 at 4:15 am - #steven
Great work Jordan. It takes a GTP oldtimer like me a little while to get used to the new sleek design, but the new functions are great, especially the -next- function when looking at news item pictures. Well done!!!
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June 14th, 2010 at 3:25 am - #MarcoM
Nice change!
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June 14th, 2010 at 3:23 am - #TokyoDrift
Very nice job Jordan, love the clean lines. Well done!
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June 14th, 2010 at 3:18 am - #j8mie
Thank you for all the hard work you put into running this site Jordan, it doesn’t go unnoticed :)
I’m liking the new look, it makes reading articles on the front page much easier. The forum also looks a lot cleaner and easier to navigate.
Many thanks :)
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I love it, keep your hard work! Respect! ;) thanks!