I have been making a few changes around the site in the last day or so and just wanted to alert you to them and ask if anyone is experiencing any strange bugs. First, I have installed a new archives page! I know that the archives page has been broken for some time, so I put in a pretty new one which should be great and helpful and generally all around wonderful. Please check it out.

Secondly, I have overhauled the way that the site displays advertising. Instead of hardcoding in ad code into widgets, I have put in some dynamic javascript (to be replaced with PHP later when I have time to work out bugs, likely this weekend) tied to an OpenX ad server I just installed. This means that I now have a better ability to track and analyze the clicks / impressions on the ads of our amazing current advertising partners, Campus Explorer and The University Review. In any event, I saw that this was displaying weirdly on some old versions of Internet Explorer but not too many of you use that so hopefully things should look OK. But let me know if there are problems.

Also, with the new OpenX installed I can now display advertising on a CPC or CPM basis… though I think I will just continue to offer monthly slots. As usual, let me know if you are interested, and check out my advertising page.

More tweaks to come in the near future! I am confident of this because I have a huge amount of work and tend to do wonderfully constructive web design and backend stuff when I really, really shouldn’t…