The New TAC

By on June 25, 2010 in Announcements
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If you’re not a new reader of this website, you’re obviously noticing our new site design – which was customized for TAC for our 4 year anniversary today, June 25th.

We’ve got a lot of project launched right now and many more coming soon. Here’s a few additional comments beyond what I wrote about in my latest column today:

1. Our new logo. Clean and easy to view. The small flag draped over the edge is to signify the navy jack flag we’ve had on our site since day one – and it’s coiled a bit to look like the tail of the rattlesnake on the Gadsden. We’ll have a little more about it on a new page in the near future.

2. The Original Constitution – Paperback book is going to be released in the near future. More details soon.

3. TAC Team – there’s a lot of great people who work hard to make this organization chug along. We’ll be posting some info on those people soon.

4. The new design – It’s cleaner, our main page now has more than triple the number of articles viewable without even scrolling down – and the coding is going to put a LOT less stress on our server.

5. Videos – you may have seen some of our recent videos on YouTube. We’re happy to have a really creative friend of mine, Angelus Bailey, doing them as part of an internship for his school.

6. Ads – In line with #5, we’re in the early stages of producing a series of “how the 10th applies” commercials. It’s a ways off, but some exciting stuff!

Other than that – thanks for reading, and for your support! Expect to see regular blog posts resume over the weekend. In the meantime, please share this site with your friends!

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Lonny Eachus
Lonny Eachus

Michael:

I am with you on most things. But I am a professional web developer and I disagree about some of the decisions made about your new site arrangement.

First, I am using Firefox on OS X, and I don't see "triple the number of articles" visible on the page. In fact, it appears to me that the actual content area has decreased in size, while the advertisements have increased in size. I am curious how this corresponds with your claim of "triple the articles".

Second -- and I freely admit this is solely a matter of personal opinion -- while I can understand the symbolism of your new logo design -- AFTER it had been explained to me -- I see nothing in it that inherently conveys a message about 10th Amendment. In my opinion, even a tiny "10th" would be superior. It would at least convey some kind of actual meaning, as opposed to a set of curved, abstract lines. I look at the "favicon" graphic for the webpage and more than anything else I think of zebras or the little "motion" lines cartoonists use to signify that a ball is moving. Nothing about it -- and I mean literally nothing -- says to me "10th Amendment". If you can make it as popular and easily recognized as the Nike "swoosh" then that will be great, more power to you, and that issue will go away, but I predict that would be a very major uphill battle.

What I am getting at is that being too abstract might be artistic, but it will also lose you some of the audience that you could really stand to gain instead.

Again, it is not my intent to be critical, except where that criticism might actually be helpful. You are doing good work and I am trying to help you do that.

Michael Boldin
Michael Boldin

Thanks Lonny - appreciate the feedback!

As far as the logo - it's all personal likes or not.

But as far as the home page content (not here on the blog), triple is probably an understatement. We now have content far more than that available to click through to - above the fold. That is essential...

I actually should have written here - triple the amount of CONTENT, not articles. But then again, we now have 6 above the fold where previously it was 3. So even on that, double.

Either way, glad you stopped by - looking forward to more of your feedback on the regular commentary!