Bandology.net Facelift, More Changes to Come

After five hours of searching and installing a new blog template till 1am last night, the major facelift to Bandology.net is finished!  There is still work to do but I'm happy with how it came out.  Here are the new features:

1.  Featured Bands - Every Monday, there will be new bands in the four clickable featured boxes above.  The categories are Band of the Week, Unsigned Band of the Week and Video of the Week.  The fourth box will rotate between featured interviews, tours, contests, charities, cd reviews and releases.

2.  Read More - "Read More" buttons have been added to each blog post.  Most blog entries will have more photos and a video of the subject being discussed.  Click on "read more" to see the photos/videos and read the rest of the story.  If you like it, please click on the "retweet" button.  A Facebook "like" button will be added soon.

3.  Live Feed - In the right sidebar of the site, I added a live traffic feed.  It shows you the last 10 visitors to the site and what city, state and/or country they came from.  It even tells you how they got to the site either from google, twitter, facebook, etc.  For instance, right now, I see visitors that came to Bandology.net from Spain, India, the UK and Kuwait (my friend is stationed there - hello Brian!) and from states such as Washington, Maryland and Texas.  Pretty interesting!

4.  Most Commented Posts - Also in the right sidebar, I added the 10 most commented posts.  Make sure you get your voice heard in the discussions.

5.  Contact - This page is linked right under the featured band boxes.  Other tabs will be added very soon such as an About Me, Links, Facebook, Twitter and more.

6.  Press Kits - There is an address where you can send any press kits too.

7.  Sponsors - This is to keep the bills paid.  If you see anything you like there, please click on them to help out Bandology.net :)

Any suggestions? Let me know in the comments.  Thanks!