Site News: April 14th

I will be unable to update the site for a few days, however I have a lot of information as well as two personal reviews that I will be posting sometime sunday or monday, with the normal return to daily news starting monday, April 17th.

Have a good weekend

FYI: Site Update

I’m going to be helping somebody migrate to a new website site today and possibly tomorrow, so news will be slow, but I’ll post anything I missed today and tomorrow wednesday night or thursday morning.

The site in question is going to be a pseudo-partner site to this website – there is a slight bit of overlap, but not much, and I think it might be of interest to Small-Laptop.com users.

Quick Note – RSS Feeds and Feedburner

Just a quick note – I’m redirecting the RSS Feeds through Feedburner at the request of a few people – it should provide more RSS options for those who read Small Laptops through RSS readers. It should work automatically with no changes on your part, but if you have any problems, please contact me.

Site Changes: Site, Laptop List (Feb 26)

Because I’m in the process of adding a lot of laptops to the site, the navigation list was getting quite large, and slowing things down. As a result, this weekend I’ve cleaned up the site interface a bit, moving the large laptop list onto its own page. In its place I have created three categories on the front page:
Just Announced – Laptops that have just been announced or just started shipping.
Recently Added – Laptops recently added to the database – this may not necessarily be “new” laptops, as I’m constantly adding older/discontinued models.
Weekly Most Popular – Most popular laptops from the previous week, based on page views/searches.

Laptop List
Having moved the laptop list away from the side navigation, it now resides on its own page, the Ultraportable/Small Laptop List. It’s organized into two columns – one is by display size, the other by manufacturer. Both show the same laptops, just organized differently.

Overall, this should speed up the site considerably, especially if you are on dial-up, as not only have page sizes been reduced, but the number of database queries has been lowered as well (which will benefit everybody).