I did a little minor site change, prompted by my wife. She wondered why I have something pointless and dull (i.e. the site news) on the front page while the actual games menu lives a level deeper.

So I changed things a bit. I expanded the carousel games menu to include all the games, and I moved the site news to a little expando-pod in the corner.


Yeah, it's kinda flashy and pointless and will likely be replaced when it gets too crowded.

Check it out here.


Oh, and I love things that integrate nicely from other sites. The site news is actually coming from my blog on blogspot. I tag any site announcements and they automatically appear there. Google publishes their specs so it wasn't too hard to grab out the relevant stuff as XML.

http://thecodezone.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full/-/siteannouncements?alt=rss&max-results=5

There's all of about 50 lines of code to grab the XML and format it to fit in the expando-pod.

So I guess I also love sites that give away their bandwidth for free just for the sake of my own convenience :)