Pull up the People Blog

I’ve updated the homepage again in the hopes of making the site more appealing on first glance. The site mission is now integrated into the side bar and both recent and popular deals are shown at the same time. There’s also a new navigation bar at the top of the page.

I’ve been bouncing back and forth between frontend and backend development and I think that’s going to be the process for a while. Add features quickly to get them out, then get them integrated into the site design.

I recently went about adding a sitemap to PullUpThePeople. In submitting the sitemap to Google and Yahoo I discovered they have some useful tools that give some insight into how they view the site. For example, with Google’s webmaster tools you can view the last time your site was indexed, what bad urls were found, and how many pages were added to Google’s index. Yahoo’s site explorer is a bit more limited allowing you to submit a site map and see what pages are indexed by Yahoo. I just recently submitted this site’s sitemap, but I’ve yet to see any change in the indexing of the site. I’ll post an update as soon as there’s progress. In the meantime I’m adding codes as fast as I can find them

The site got a bit of an overhaul today. I moved the search box into what was previously the sites mission statement. Now the search is always available as you browse for deals. The site statement was given a prominent spot on the homepage previously occupied by search.

Also new to the homepage is a list of categories and a truncated list of stores. On each store page there is now a list of related categories for that store.

The intent of all these changes was to make the site easier to navigate and to make our site’s mission clear to every new visitor.