by Dwayne Hoover

If this is your first visit to our site, I’m sorry. Somebody really should have sent you a link to one of our incredible feature articles or videos instead of this. But now, you’re reading some boring-ass update on the state of things around here instead of learning about crazy sci-fi biotech or how to break padlocks open with wrenches. You should totally go check those out instead.

For the rest of you, I’m going to talk a bit about the new site design, and really, the website overall. I guess the best way to do that is by answering the questions I’ve received most often in the last six months or so.

What’s going on with the relaunch?

You’re looking at it right now, because it happened last week.

You might remember that back in June we talked about an overhaul for the website. It’s not that our old design was broken, but there was a lot of unused screen real estate and it wasn’t super easy to dig through our back catalog of content. We talked to some people about assisting us with this project, but in the end decided, “You know, we always talk about how Squarespace is so easy to use. Let’s just do it ourselves.”

So we did, and throughout that process, we focused on two major things:

1. Creating multiple methods for visitors to easily locate more of our content.

2. Building a space that can encompass everything Modern Rogue.

On that first one, you’ll notice that “Articles” and “Videos” are still options in our navigation menu. But they work differently now: Clicking on “Articles” will show you only our full-length written pieces, and the “Videos” link just displays videos. The really cool thing is that this structure will be easy to expand upon if we decide to start doing podcasts or dancing tutorials in the future.