Prepare yourselves, people! Changes are coming to the JoBlo Movie Network!

May 17th 2012, 5:05pm

Every
few years, we try to update the site to make sure that we don’t disappear
off the face of the Internet planet that we landed on in March of 1998. Over
the past few years, the competition on the Net has become extremely tight, especially
with all of the corporations pouring millions upon millions of dollars into
their portals and shit. Being as I’m still the sole proprietor of this website, it makes things pretty hard to compete at times. I’m grateful to all of the awesome
boys and girls who write for our site, but if we want to continue to thrive
(and survive) over the next few years, we have to make sure that the site is
as up-to-date as possible, in order to increase our followers, traffic,
revenues and communities in general. And with all the social media sites out
there these days…it ain’t easy, folks!

That said, we are thankful for the loyalty that many of
our readers have displayed over the years and we hope that you continue to
frequent and share our site’s content with others for years and years to
come.

In the coming weeks, you will start to see some changes on
the JoBlo Movie Network, all of which we believe will only make the site
stronger and better (but of course I’d say that!). Seriously
though, we are updating our outdated front page to something that will
display all of our headlines much better, while featuring all of our
different sections’ content more visually as well. We believe the
navigation will also become a lot easier with the "new look" which you can
sneak a peek at below. The page is actually quite long and will feature
everything from our latest reviews and trailers, to this week’s DVD
releases, the latest interviews, hottest photo galleries, latest movie
posters and a lot more….

The news sections will also be receiving facelifts to something a lot
more palatable for this day and age. Currently, when you land on the JoBlo
news page, you see one "featured article" of our choosing. Not sure why we
have it that way, but that’s how we always did things, so that’s how it
stayed. But we believe that this new "landing page" for each of the 3 top
sections from the JoBlo Movie Network (JoBlo, Arrow in the Head and
MovieHotties) will be a lot more user-friendly, and will allow you to see
all of the latest headlines in a new "visual way", while also offering the
most popular featured articles right at the top (i.e. you choose what you
want to read next). Here is the Arrow in the Head example of that (templates not 100% finished).

And finally, the news articles themselves will feature
much wider columns so that we can start posting larger images and videos
into all of our pieces, which will surely come in handiest on
MovieHotties, for example… 🙂

There are a few more changes that will be forthcoming as
well, but those are the big ones. It’s to note that we’ll also be
"collapsing" the Pimpin Poster Palace into the JoBlo section under MOVIE
POSTERS, while the Digital Dorm will sadly close its doors, while
transferring the DVD/BLU-RAY reviews and release dates sections…to
JoBlo, once again.

We believe that this "new look" (our 11th new look since
our inception in 1998 — see all of the old "funny looks" below) will be
‘easier on the eye’ for everyone, tighten up the JoBlo Movie Network,
allow for easier sharing (which is extremely important on the Net these
days) and wider images and videos, which is also pretty awesome. This new
infrastructure will also help us with JOBLO MOBILE, which has ballooned
over the past 6 months, to the point that 25% of our traffic now comes
directly from smart phones, etc..

We hope you all enjoy the new changes (although generally
most people do NOT like change — hence this pre-emptive notice)
and continue to visit our site for all the opinionated fanboy love that
we’ve been dishing out since 1998. And try not to be too hard on
us, folks…unfortunately we simply didn’t have much choice in many of
these changes, as the times they are a-changing and if we don’t keep
up…we’re gonzo before you know it.

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