Shaken, Not Stirred

Our friends over at Martini Republic have come off their bender long enough to redesign their site.

Some of the new features include:

• Angeleno blog in top right, far more prominent than before.
• Arts and culture blogs are more extensively quoted on home page
• Blogroll even shorter, divided into "fabled taverns" (left-leaning political blogs) and "neighborhood bars" (LA political blogs) for local links -- we're in the latter.
• Better commenting software for obsessives (WordPress).
• More prominence for RSS feeds for all blogs at the site, including angeleno
• Airier design, less clunky - looking than before
• Link color/font contrast makes things easier to find
  
• New left-hand column -- leaving plenty of room for ads...(do I sense a policy shift...)
  

These are just a few I have found so far.

According to Mailander, the techie behind all the changes is their publisher, Laura Fisher. She, Alex and Joseph all collaborated on the facelift.

Cheers to them. Job well done. The next round is on us!

Now maybe we need to get off our ass and do the same...