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Changes to DownSwinging.com

Posted by Seth Walder | Posted in Miscellaneous | Posted on 03-08-2009

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For those of you who have been reading DownSwinging.com since the beginning, you will no doubt attest that even in a couple months we have been working hard to add new features to the site, expanding it and hopefully making it better overall. Since the inception of the site, we have added widgets such as “recent comments” and “popular posts”, added features to the top bar including “Beat the Streak” and “Bracket Challenge”, started a podcast for which currently there are five episodes, and been accepted to NewsNow and integrated our site with twitter and facebook.

We know that there have been technical issues with the site at times. Specifically, we were having coding problems that caused the site to look skewed or disproportioned on certain browsers, namely Google Chrome and Safari. With a big thanks to Seth Glickman, we were able to fix those coding problems and the site should appear correctly on all browsers (we are still having minor issues with old versions of internet explorer, but 7.0 and 8.0 handle it fine).

Also, for those of you who want to hear some fresh voices on the site, good news! We have found several people interested in writing for the site on a semi-regular basis, so look out for some new authors in the next week or so. If you are interested in contributing downswinging.com in any capacity, contact us at seth@downswinging.com and steve@downswinging.com.

Saving maybe the best for last, I am proud to announce the opening of the forum on our site. The forum is a place where you, the readers, can discuss your thoughts on sports, whether we’ve written on a subject or not. By all means go ahead and start a new topic or respond to one already started! On Friday I got the Forum going with my live commentary on the trade deadline for the final couple of hours. I can safely say it was one of the most enjoyable things I have ever done. The last half-hour was crazy.