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Welcome to the New and Improved Keynoteuser.com
Posted by | Posted in KeynoteUser Announcements | Posted on 01-30-2009
As you can see, things look quite a bit different around here. We’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.7 and switched the site over to 100% wordpress. In the past, the front page was a badly hacked together html page with the wordpress engine patched into the center of it. WordPress was then stuck in a sub folder (called /news/). The whole thing was messy. We’ve moved the whole wordpress engine up to the main level, and thanks to some special server changes, any link that used to go to /news/ now goes to the top level. It’s all rather slick.
We’ve got more changes coming, and you can see some parts aren’t finished (like the ad block on the right side of the page). Our freebies section is still a work in progress, mostly because there aren’t any really good download managers for WordPress. We’re trying to decide if we should just make freebies a category and link to a category page, or actually install a download manager and try to get it looking nice.
Feel free to post comments, but be nice 
We chose a premade theme, and the wood grain just seemed to go well with the whole “Keynote’s logo is a wooden podium” feel. If there was a page you liked that has been removed, comment on it here. We do plan to put up some of the old stuff (redone of course) but much of the old reviews and tips were REALLY old. The support area is being moved to our parent site (www.thepeatgroup.com) since that’s where the theme store resides. It should make things easier for people purchasing themes.
Anyway, have a look around and tell us what you think!
Nice job. Very clean and easy on the eyes. Here’s to the continued life and success of KeynoteUser!
Wow… I didn’t realize how tired the old site was until I saw this. Nice job, Brian!
Way to go Brian! – Looking great.
Great new look – it’s awesome!
Brian
It looks great – I haven’t been on for quite a while and usually have a look whenever there is a new Keynote release (like now). When I have a problem, I usually go to the Apple forum where I see your copious help and advice. i just wonder where you find the time! I am putting together a presentation on presentation and was looking for a comparison review between PPT and Key 09. Has anyone seen one yet?
New site looks fantastic! Congrats!
Any chance you’d be willing to turn on full content in the RSS feeds? The tiny content amount doesn’t really convince me to come to the site, it just makes me skip over the content all together.
Thanks!
Yeah, this is on my list, I might actually get it done today. I need to add an icon in the header for it, and I’ll probably pump it through feedburner with a subscription option.
I’ve got the rss link up and feedburner running. WP was set to only show the summary though, and even though I fixed that, it appears that it must take a while before it kicks in as the feed currently is still showing summary only. Hopefully this will just fix itself.