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Welcome to the new look TV Tonight! To help you get to know the new site, here's a little overview of what's inside.

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Welcome to the new look TV Tonight website.

There are a number of new features in v2.0 (beta) of this blog. The biggest change you will notice is a shift from Blogger to Word Press, and a new navigation, designed to facilitate a better experience for you.

When this blog began nineteen months ago there were few Australian sites devoted entirely to television, calling networks to account and access to future programming. Now this site is read by television executives, media and fans alike.

The new-look site now has more of a “newspaper” feel that allows Top Stories to remain on the front page while they are newsworthy, rather than merely becoming superseded by the most recent new post.

The majority of posts are divided into three principal areas, represented by new front page verticals: News and Programming for Free to Air plus and Pay TV (news & programming combined).

You can easily click on a headline or image to take you direct to a story. Alternatively you can click on the category itself to take you to the most recent stories in each section.

There are separate sections for Reviews, Coming Soon, Advance Guides and the TV Lounge, which continues to serve as an open forum for questions or comment.

In the right hand side column you will see a guide for the evening’s viewing plus the latest ratings (now you don’t have to click on a link to see if it’s been updated).

There are links for social networking posts to MySpace, Facebook and more. Full RSS is now available across the site.

In order to comment on the site, readers must register one-time only via a valid email. This is NOT published. There is no change to Comments Policy and comments remain moderated for approval.

Tags will be added across the coming weeks and months to select posts, based on show title. Your patience is appreciated, as there are some 4,000 posts in the archive. In the meantime, please be sure to utilise the Search function.

The site will remain in Beta mode during this phase.

Special thanks in getting the new site together goes to David McDonald who has been fantastic in customising WordPress to my needs. Once I asked him to show ratings on the front page and to create verticals for News, Programming and Pay TV I think his eyes lit up at the challenge! If you’re looking for work on WordPress or a new website, he’s the man!

TV Tonight will continue to provide you with news, interviews, programming and features you have come to know and expect.

Above all it remains passionate about one thing: television.

Welcome!

David Knox.

41 Responses

  1. So relieved the site is back! I broke out in a rash today when it wasn’t coming up. Great work to David for setting it all up for you, hopefully I don’t get lost in the new layout!

  4. I didn’t know you have only been doing this for nineteen months. It is worth the wait especially how the look and feel of the homepage and catagories. Keep up the good work.

  5. Thanks for the feedback guys, it’s been a lot of work to get this far, and I appreciate your patience in this beta stage.

    Full RSS has now been restored. Some of the backend work wasn’t possible until the site went live, as well as taking time to filter through Feedburner. There are no plans to truncate the RSS at all. Let me know if this remains an ongoing issue across the week.

  9. Looks good but agree also a bit busy. Sure I will become used to it with time.
    Congratuations David ! A much more professional appearing site (not that it was not before) – you know what I mean 🙂

  10. I’m looking forward to experiencing all the new site has to offer although I am sure I will have L plates on for a while. Thanks for keeping us as up to date as possible with what is going on in television and for giving us a voice/

  12. Congratulations David on the relaunch. I believe the new format will make more people take notice and gives a more professional feel to the website and your opinions then the somewhat amateur feel which the website had previously. It will take a little getting used to, but other than the more prominent advertisements being added (I’m sure this is justified in some way), I’m very happy with it. Good job!

  13. I’m so glad I can finally comment! I’ve been reading this site for about six months. It’s so good to have a site dedicated to local programming. I’ve often missed things because of last minute changes but now I’ll be able to check here first,

    The new layout is really, really nice. It’ll take a bit of getting used to but I’m sure I will.

    Thanks for creating this great blog David.

  16. The new site looks quite good.

    Just a bit of constructive criticism. The new ‘TV Tonight’ logo doesn’t look that flash on my laptop though, with all that purple on purple and fine lines. Also, can I suggest that you run more of the ‘Top Stories’ down the left hand side and reduce the size of ‘Pay TV’ and ‘Programming’ sections?

    All the best.

  18. Congratulations on the new site, David. It’s very slick and smart, and a fine complement to the excellent information always found here. I have to admit, I missed your TV-y updates more than I care to admit, during the renovations! I’m glad you’re back!

  22. Love the new site – great layout!

    Only a slight issue so far – RSS feeds. Are you able to set them to the same format as previous, whereby pictures and full text is included, instead of the slimmed down new version?

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