Changes are 'a coming

A few months back I queried various readers about changes on the blog. I've done quite a few of them, seamlessly or not:

• categories have evolved, although I'm not yet fully happy with the result
• impersonal advertising has been reinforced, both through Google Ads and Amazon's Omakase links
• the layout has evolved to double-sidebars

I'd be happy to get your feedback on these aspects of the blog.

One further change to come will be in the reviews: instead of posting long single-record reviews or shole slews of shorter reviews, I'm going to publish individual shorter reviews from now on. I suspect the long review posts are not read by many - feedback and questions regarding CDs I've reviewed lead me to think so anyway.

Again, let me know what you think!

Comments

[marc]

I like the site pretty much the way it is. It would be nice to have the search function near the top of the page--it's much easier to use to find older material than the categories. I frequently try using the categories, but posts are not where I would expect them to be... Hmm... maybe too many categories? I like both the long and short album reviews--long is great for artists people aren't familiar with because you get a sense of their career and you can make sure your first album is a good one.

[Murray]

The structure is fine. One sidebar was better cos you got more text in the main body, but then there were v good reasons for the move to two and it's not such a big change.

Agree with the previous poster on the reviews : one of the cooler aspects of HR is the long, detailed approach to particular artists that gives an overall view of their work and recommends particular albums over others...then again a short one now and again on a new release is a good fresh thing.