Welcome to the New ATH

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We’re back!  Now with 50% less wood grain. This has been a work-in-progress for around 6 months and we’re pleased with the result.  Here’s a list of just a few of the changes we made.  Consider this your tutorial.

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The Latest Feature

Now when you load up ATH you’ll be greeted with our latest feature (it’s Blondie in the screenshot above).  ATH has some awesome features -like our Friday Top 5s and ATH Interviews- that often got overlooked in the large stream of posts we have on the site.  We’ve now stuck our latest feature at the top of the Frontpage and will stay there until something more important comes along.  It’s gigantic. Just click.

Read on & Share the Love

At the bottom of every post, just before the comments, we added a short list of related posts so you can read more if you want. You’ll also see a list of social networks that you can share posts with. If you’re a fan of ATH, the best thing you could do for us is to retweet or pass a link on to your friends.  Also, leave a comment.

A Better Sidebar

We made a lot of improvements to the sidebar. It’s now packed with links of recent popular and must-read articles you may have missed.  If you’re new to the site, start there. We refreshed the ATH Radio a bit, definitely worth a spin.  There’s also some better advertising space that is just aching for some love from your band or a local Austin-based business (hint hint).

Read on, Mighty Reader!

We won’t bore you with the delicate finesse of the new design and let you get back to your regularly scheduled Monday morning reading.  We’ll still be making changes and minor tweaks in the coming weeks.  Oh.  And if you’re having trouble viewing the site on Internet Explorer 6, you should just download the latest Firefox.

3 Comments on “Welcome to the New ATH”

  • MrTrent said on Aug 24th, 2009

    Splendid!

  • Joel said on Aug 24th, 2009

    Looks great guys!

  • raygun said on Aug 24th, 2009

    Another note on the sidebar-

    Our “People We Like” section isn’t going away… we’re just in the process of making it a lot hipper/useful. We still care about our compadres.

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