What the heck happened? Well, we moved the site to a new host about 24 hours ago and since navigating the world of DNS changes is not an easy one for the expert – it does not come with a step-by-step guide – novices are lucky to keep their heads above water.
New theme implemented today, but there are definitely more tweaks needed. Might take a few days to flush everything out so please be patient.
Note the placement of the pages, they are now at the top left of every page. On the home page, the sub-menu under the Radio Vice Online logo provides you with our posts broken up into categories … kind of like your newspaper. We’ve brought back two features people have been asking for.
If you’ve got comments about the new theme, post them below. If you find something broken, you can contact us or post in the comments section below. The 10 most current posts are on the home page under ‘What’s new here?’.
Newswire
The Newswire is back. It’s not on the homepage, but available with one click from the menu at the very top of every page. Right now, we’re featuring Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Powerline, Instapundit and Big Government.
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Facebook, Twitter and e-mail are the most favored ways to share content, but we’ve also added the ability to share via StumbleUpon, Digg and del.icio.us.
We may eventually add a re-Tweet button up at the top of the post, but it’s now at the bottom and of course, you should Follow us on Twitter anyway!
OK, why not. Got a few of e-mail requests, plus Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air is doing something similar and having some fun. We don’t get nearly the traffic of the big sites, so our top post list can be more easily influenced by Internet phenomenon including the strange entry of popular keywords into search engines.
Just thought I would give you an idea of what computer screen looks like during the show. This is the new MacBook Pro and maybe now you can understand why I needed the 17″ screen. Plus I quadrupled the speed and RAM. Ha. But even with the wide screen it gets a little congested.
I also will download and re-compress videos from You Tube on the fly and that sometimes gets a bit tense. So I am asking the laptop to do an awful lot and the other Mac just couldn’t handle the pressure. Kind like TOTUS, he just bit the dust.
Here’s what I ask the MBP to do. After recording 10 news shows the night before on my iMAC at home, I compress them to iPhone size and transfer them to the MBP. The next morning I start at 6:30 AM reviewing the video and cutting the bites on the MBP using video editing software. Sound levels are adjusted then.Then it’s line up the sound and off we go.
As you can see we run the sound bites (actually videos so I can describe what’s going on a bit better), the music, the web cam, the chat room, e-mail and Internet research from the MBP, and at times hook in the iPhone too, while Mr Joyce is busy running sound levels, commercials, screening phone calls and compressing and cutting the podcasts.
One last little bit of inside baseball. The Mac, for a few years now, has allowed me to operate a number of different screens on the same laptop, called Expose. Imagine four screens, 1 up and 3 sitting out there in the ether. So at times I will move items onto to other screens which I can then switch to with a key stroke It gets a bit crazy and sometimes a little too complex and often I can be too smart by half. But, it works for me most of the time and never freezes, the older MBP not withstanding. Take that Mr Gates. Thank you Apple.
We are quickly approaching a year as an all new, revved up, completely redesigned site and it has made a big difference in traffic. It started with WTIC’s webmaster Brian Partridge who, back in October, had the sense to add twitter, chat and live video to the site long before the rest of the world had caught on.
Then in January Steve McGough took over, redesigned the redesign adding categories, a newswire and new bloggers, changed servers three times as traffic kept growing, and then set up relationships with our favorite national blogs. Steve, pretty much by himself, turned RVO into a factor … and on a growing number of occasions (see below) a national factor.
The result is, even with the site down (at least in part and sometimes in whole as we changed servers twice) for the better part of a week … and with vacation days interspersed cutting down on posts …. August turned out to be RVO’s third best month in operation. And so what once was a blog that didn’t do much better than a few hundred visits each month, now routinely draws 70,000 to 100,000 visits each month. That’s small by Hot Air or Instapundit standards … but hey, RVO has been around less than three years and the redesign less than one.
Much of that can be traced to our referrers. Referring sites sent us 12, 212 visits from 350 sources.
Here’s the list of August’s Top 8.
Thanks to Michelle, Ed, the Freepers, the RVO chatroom, and Jim at Gateway. Oh yeah, and WTIC and the folks who help me put the show together Joey and Mr. Joyce.
And of course special thanks to Brian’s foresight and Steve’s magnificent skills and talent.
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Updated Feb. 1, 2009
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Welcome to the new site! Version 3 combines the blogging efforts of Jim Vicevich and Steve McGough, blogger at Conservative247. The site has a new look – as you can see – and we hope you’ll find the home page easy to navigate.
We’re breaking content into four categories. The featured posts are at the top, and we have sections for Politics & Government, Economics, and News, Media & Other Events. All of the previous posts – including those from Conservative247 – have been migrated to the new site!
Video will continue to be an important part of the site, and you’ll find plenty of video in posts, and we’ll always have a Featured Video for readers.
The site continues to be an interactive place for listeners of Sound Off Connecticut. Click on the banner at the top of any page to get to the Live page. Where you can participate in the online chat, watch Jim in studio on video, take the daily poll and check out the five most recent posts on the site – all on one page!
The Newswire has been moved to the bottom of the home page, but it continues to display recent posts from Hot Air, the Campaign Spot, Powerline Blog and Jeff Jacoby. We’ve made some improvements so you can see where the post comes from, who wrote it and when it was posted.
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