West of the Boulevard News launches — the people rejoice
by Ross Catrow
Earlier we, you and I dear reader, had talked earnestly about launching an uber local news resource. Well, dear reader, that time has come:
WotBN.net
Thus far, WotBN will provide you with succulent news bites and a succinct schedule of events focusing on our neighborhood — get excited.
The idea behind a community driven news resource is, well, the community. If you live or work in the West of the Boulevard area I fully expect you to embrace this new project and contribute to it. There are a couple things that would be helpful in getting WotBN.net off the ground (ordered by difficulty, least to greatest):
- Visit WotBN.net a couple times a week.
- Read and comment on the news / stories posted. You know, partake in a discourse.
- Submit tips and events to the WotBN editors. Really, we are desperate. We will post almost anything.
- Write a featured article. If you have a great idea for something more in depth than a news blurb please please please let us be your outlet. Of course we might turn you down because we are jerks, but you never know.
See it is easy? Get cracking.
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Three things:
1. I love this -> “Awesomer than The Fan.” A good community site should always have something about it to stir things up a bit with the neighbors.
2. Nice work. Your CSS theme, per your own notes, is truly “The best theme on the entire earth.” :)
3. May I suggest adding the word “news” to your header image (images/wotbn.gif). I know I’m dense sometimes but for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what the “n” was in “wotbn”.
Huzzah and good work, folks.
yay! Now I’ll have to go get liquored up and make some news up that way…
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Oh yeah…. I’ve been meaning to tell you how much i love the “Awesomer than the Fan” byline.
And the wife is mucho impressed by your design and how it all came together.
Nice job. Even though we live in Church Hill, I’m sure we’ll be checking this regularly for events.
Good idea, well executed.
Good luck and if I can help, in any way, let me know.
If you’d like to help: submit tips! Or write us a great feature apropos to the neighborhood.
awesome work!
the byrd schedule and the “spare change” are cool little features, and i like them being front and center.
the only tiny little thing that bothers me is span.highlight – #02C1A2!? mein eyes! i know it’s supposed to draw attention, but so does the crossdresser i always see at Ukrops. ha, just a personal preference.
Yeah we changed that yesterday. It’s now brown, with “orange” text. Seriously like color: orange;.
much better! this morning it was still being all blueish.
Yeah I failed to commit my changes into the source control. Sigh. I got yelled at for it, SO DON’T WORRY.