As you may have noticed, our blog goddess Liza has given the site a new look and feeliness. I'll be playing around with the CSS this evening to work out some of the kinks in the new system; so don't be surprised if you come across some way funky stuff.

Full blog posting will begin again tomorrow; much to write about, one might add.

I need your help.

There are far too many changes in the site to fit into one blog post. I still have to update the features page and add a post about new bells and whistles we're running here.

So please, pick three choices. And use the comments section to ask some of the questions you want answered.

Even better ... submit a question through our new "As a Question" section. Once we receive and answer it, it will gIt's like a et published to the front page and archived accordingly.

It is a mixed blessing for me to be not just a writer but a web developer. If I didn't have a life with two children, I would have already posted the littany of articles I have dealing with political issues and opinions on policy that I have on queue at moment. Alas, there are so many hours in a day for a working mom like.

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This Friday 27th of April I will be taking The Daily Gotham offline at 10:30pm to work on the site's system upgrade.

After much discussion and deliberation I am upgrading the site from a now almost defunct CivicSpace distribution of Drupal to a custom culturekitchen distribution based on Drupal 4.7, along with a cleaner and easier to use interface based on Michael Bouldin's DailyGotham design.

How can you help?

Please consider sponsoring our effort.

Your sponsorship not only help towards paying for our time and effort, but all sponsors will be acknowledged on a special sponsors post, email annoucement and blogroll.

Just a bit of an advance notice: there's a lot of work being done behind the secenes here at Daily Gotham, as Liza and myself prepare to launch a revamped version of this site.

Thing is, over time, we've added a ton of features that nobody ever uses - "Digg This!" "See this in Iambic pentameter!" - to the point where this blog does everything except make your coffee (a feature available with certain versions of Firefox).

Problem is, all these features, bells, whistles, chimes and the kitchen sink have made using this site a bit more difficult than it needs to be, in part because of the visual confusion it engenders. In terms of information architecture, this site has come to resemble a house with too many lean-tos and a double garage tacked on to the living room.

So here's a question: what do you use, as a reader or a contributor? What could you do without? Let us know, in the comments (also up for radical simplification, of course).

I had no idea why people were having such a hard time getting to the blogging features. Well, f*&^K that's because the navigation box went missing during the redesign.

Sigh.

I apologize for any confusion this might have caused.

Anything else in need of tweaking?

Swearing to use her powers of persuassion for another day, BlogDiva has taken the herculean task of using her web standards might to vanquish the evil Internet Explorer bugs unleashed by the villanous Lord Billious Gateous.

BlogDiva, hurt but not vanquished, has saved the Web 2.0 day.

Bow to the blogdiva, bitches.