Check Out the New Digs!
It’s been a few weeks in the making, and I’ve been talking about it for what seems like forever (and yes, I’m purposely NOT talking about the Pats losing last night), but for those who are regular visitors to this site you probably noticed a few changes when you logged on today. Whoot! Whoot!
Pretty sweet, huh?
I don’t know about you, but seeing how baller the site looks now, all I can do is keep re-playing the chorus line from Drake’s Fancy over and over in my head:
Go, go, go, go, go, go ‘head
Go, go, go, go, go, go ‘head
Oh, you fancy, huh?
Oh, you fancy, huh?
Oh, you fancy, huh?
Oh, you fancy, huh?
Nail done, hair done
Everything did
Nails done, hair done
Everything did
First, and the most obvious upgrade: that’s me to the right doing my best Mr. Clean impersonation. Granted, I’m not wearing an all white outfit, and I’m definitely not wearing an earring, but I feel the picture is a huge improvement from what I had on the site originally. A huge thank you goes out to Kim Lloyd for rendering her services and providing all the kick-ass photography – including THIS pic.
Secondly, one of the main points I wanted to hit on was upgrading the social media so that it would be more accessible to the masses. To that end, you’ll notice a ‘static’ tab to the left that has links to my Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, RSS, and StumbleUpon pages.
HINT: you should click on them.
In addition, I also added a blog archive that links to every post from the past year categorized by month. You can still access posts from previous years, too (by clicking the pages buttons at the bottom), but the archive box provides easy access to the past year’s posts. What’s more, I also added a “Tony’s Favorites” section that links to some of my favs (old and new).
HINT: you should click on those as well (especially if you’re new to the site).
If you have a real good eye, aesthetically, you may have noticed I had the guys over at Copter Labs get rid of the “grid-like” lines that served as the background to the site. Now it’s just a solid white background which should make reading a little easier. You’re welcome.
Above all, if you look to the right – underneath my biceps – you’ll see a section titled Get All the Updates.
Which, to put it another way, means……….
Someone Got a Newsletter!!!!
This is dedicated to Eric Cressey, Kevin Neeld, Jim Smith, and many others who have been hounding me to step into the 21st Century for the past year.
Pigs are now flying.
I’d be very appreciative if you signed up for it. I promise I won’t spam you and stuff. Instead, for now, I’ll just send updates of what’s going on: schedule of speaking engagements, articles of mine that are published elsewhere, weekly blog reviews, what I had for dinner last night, you know, important things.
And that’s about it. In an ideal world, I’d somehow figure out a way to make it so that a Velociraptor would jump out and rip the page in half with its claws each time someone clicked on a page. But I was told that that would have been a bit over the top. A guy can dream, right?
Nonetheless, I hope you like the changes and would love to hear your thoughts and opinions. Feedback welcome.
PS: Seriously, sign up for my newsletter. Before I cry.
Comments for This Entry
James C Wise
love the white background!!! way easier to read. are you listening t-nation? hate the floaty things on the left. if you can keep all content moved to the right, they'll be OK. otherwise they just obscure the page. this is a better implementation than I have seen on other sites. I'll sign up for the newsletter if you promise not to spam every day with titles like "3 ways to pump your guns" "11 deadlift secrets" that sort of thing. good luck jcFebruary 6, 2012 at 11:31 am |
Anonymous
James - On my end, the static tab doesn't interfere with the text. In fact, there's a clear gap between the tab and the text. Although, one of the pro-baseball guys just showed it to me on his phone and it looks like what you described. But if he clicks on the text so that the background changes - or something like that - it's fine. Maybe it's a phone thing?February 6, 2012 at 1:10 pm |
Copter Labs
I just set it up to hide the tabs if the screen is too narrow to leave space. Sorry about that!February 6, 2012 at 8:39 pm |
James Wise
much better with the floaties. I keep my web pages zoomed in so I can read easier but copter labs made them disappear unless I zoom out. those guys rock!!! I'm surprised no one posted this: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/kale-for-everyone/February 7, 2012 at 9:29 am |
Jay
Just a head's up your testimonial page has broken images :(February 6, 2012 at 12:16 pm |
Anonymous
I'll look into those - thanks for the heads up!February 6, 2012 at 1:10 pm |
Copter Labs
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up!February 6, 2012 at 10:51 pm |
Barath
A very nice layout indeed! I am a little bummed you don't have a tag-cloud, though! Those things are uber-cool!February 6, 2012 at 1:18 pm |
RS
Tony, Site kicks ass. RSFebruary 6, 2012 at 1:47 pm |
Kw-kwperformance
Tony, Site rocks buddy! I'll def sign up for your newsletter :) KWFebruary 6, 2012 at 7:03 pm |
Pamela McHugh
Looks great Tony!February 6, 2012 at 9:15 pm |
Stephanie @itrainthereforeieat
Love the new look, and especially the amazing pics by Kim!! The pic in your About Me is definitely Bad Ass. Congrats!February 6, 2012 at 10:08 pm |
Anonymous
Kim did an amazing job, and I'd HIGHLY recommend her to anyone. I'll be sure to pass along the kudos to her.February 7, 2012 at 6:36 pm |
Odhran
Great new layout dude! Keep up the content onyl recently got you on my RSS and enjoying the stuff so far. PS the pic on your about tony page is bad ass!!February 7, 2012 at 6:22 am |
Anonymous
Thanks Odhran, for the support. Hope to see you around more.February 7, 2012 at 6:36 pm |
Stevo
Love it Tony, good stuff all around and keep up the great work. I didn't subscribe b/c I'm still pissed about all the deadlifting and horizontal pulling you put in my program (GOSH!) but maybe I will....eventually....February 7, 2012 at 9:32 am |
Anonymous
LOL! Speaking of which, how did those programs end up working out for you and Kelsey????February 7, 2012 at 6:37 pm |
Stevo Reed
Oh man, they were excellent. We can't say enough good things about them....they provided a great way to train around the injuries, not to mention it was refreshing to do a program written by someone ELSE for a change.February 8, 2012 at 10:44 am |
E C
time for a show-down: best arms crossed photo in the top right of the page above shameless newsletter opt-in starring Tony Gentilcore vs. Ben Bruno!!! hey, nothing like consistency to keep things easy us!February 7, 2012 at 5:09 pm |
Anonymous
Ben stopped by the facility the other day and I told him that his photo was the inspiration for mine......haha.February 7, 2012 at 6:39 pm |
Barb
Very nice! When you get a chance, please consider adding the "subscription" option to FB for your public posts. It might work well for you.February 8, 2012 at 12:58 am |
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