What’s Going On…
After four years on the old site, we’re finally new and improved. Read all about it…
by Lang Whitaker
Perhaps you remember our little site we used to call SLAMonline.com. It was balky like the new Knick Renaldo and old school like P.J. Brown. We had The Links, I’m Just Saying…, The D.A.Y., Omar and various other things in there. It was fun, and we worked hard at it, but it was like washing the dishes without using your thumbs — at the end of the day, there was only so much that we could do.
Well, welcome to the new SLAMonline. All that old stuff? It’s still here. But now we’re new and improved, with all kinds of cool bells and whistles.
How does all this work? Play around with it. But basically, you can read all of The Links by clicking on “The Links” whenever you see it written in orange. Same with any other section. And you can post comments down below, too. (Your first time you post we have to approve you, but after that you’ll be free to write anything you want.) We’ll be posting more often — even posting live from games and events, using our Sidekicks — and video, podcasts and other cool stuff is on the way. And check out the homepage: we even have live news and scores up in there.
For now though, you can check out The Links and Sam’s new column, Sam Online, which we’ve both been typing away on the last few days.
Have fun, and we’ll see ya on Monday.
18 Responses to “What’s Going On…”
Jul.9 at 8:58 pm
Hype says:
Nice crib! Lang, I just would like to say YAY! for RSS feed, and though you’ve “blogging” waaay before that term was coined, it’s nice that the column and site is suited for Interweb 2.0 land! Been a long time reader and I can’t wait to keep up with the stuff coming in and see all the shiny new stuff! And oh yea…Zizou should be on STRIKER’s cover, like yesterday.
Jul.9 at 11:06 pm
Lang Whitaker says:
Thanks for the kind words. When the site goes live this week (allegedly) things should pick up around here. Striker isn\’t really alive, I don\’t think. Who knows. But Zizou is the one guy I\’m upset we never did a feature on. I was supposed to talk to him in Madrid last year when I was over there for Beckham, but something happened at the last minute and I never got a chance to interview him. Love his skill and demeanor, don\’t love when he headbutts someone in the chest as hard as he can and takes himself out of the PK round. Although that was one of the strangest things I\’ve ever seen happen in a sports event, especially a game that huge.
–lang
Jul.10 at 6:23 pm
Jack says:
Looking good. Might take a lil while to get used to though. Ah well I have the whole offseason to get that done! Nice change though, been waitin for an updated site for SLAM since like.. the day after I started readin’ the Links.
Jul.10 at 6:34 pm
rgz says:
Props on the new site, but you guys shoulda included a message board, so that we could all argue on it.
Jul.10 at 6:53 pm
Nate Dogg says:
Awesome! Nice work guys.
Jul.10 at 7:02 pm
basketball says:
Beautiful new site though it’s a bit confusing and seems too broken up, but slam is the best so I’ll keep reading
Jul.10 at 7:12 pm
SchW says:
Just a thing regarding Zidane. It is such a shame that a player of such a caliber puts himself in a situation like this. If u look on the things like that there would be a brawl at every NBA game beacause of all the trash talkers. And about Materazzi–>MVP for sure.
Jul.10 at 7:44 pm
Andrew says:
Wow, this looks tight. Great job guys. Of course it will take a little getting used to, but it will be worth. Keep it up.
Jul.10 at 8:42 pm
Matt says:
A great job to everyone who put this new site together.. Looking forward to the new and interactive content. I can’t wait to dig into it, and start posting!
Jul.10 at 8:47 pm
Steve says:
Nice work guys looks great!! Gonna take a lil while to get used to but all in all its awesome. Keep up the GOOD work
Jul.10 at 8:55 pm
Matt Wens says:
great work Slam, gonna take me awhile to get used to the new site, looks tops from a first peep this morning tho peace from Adelaide, Australia
Jul.10 at 10:04 pm
mutoni says:
great site guys. Looking forward to the new hotness! Can a brotha get a column or what?!
Jul.11 at 12:28 am
Marvin Hughes says:
Yesss, How far we (as the Slam family) have come. From the classic LJ cover to Money cover on issue #100, to the new site. Keep up the gooed work!!!!
Jul.11 at 1:15 am
Pat says:
Great work on the new site guys. Its just gonna take awhile to get used to, but still slam is the best
Jul.11 at 8:35 am
Antoine says:
Cool new site dude, I always liked slamonline.com evenb though it did look kinda old. Now we’re talkin’!
Jul.11 at 9:10 am
Mark says:
Lang & Sam, I like the site. As a long-time linkstigator, I’ve been checking back constantly for updates to the site, anixously wondering what changes you’d make. The Links is my daily read (without fail) for years now and it does pain me (ever so little) to see the current format… I think the thing that most people are missing is the large blurb of commentary (blog-style) that you had at the top of the Links each day… If you could change your Links posts to reflect the old format, everything else is perfect! Cheers
Mark
Sydney, Australia
Jul.11 at 11:27 am
drew says:
Just wanted to say the new site looks fresh can’t wait to get a good chance to explore it more.
Should be really great to visit once the season begins. Thanks for the hard work you’ve put into the old site and the hard work you’ve obviously done to creating the new site.
Been a daily links reader for several years now, will be so for a long long long time.
May.11 at 1:04 pm
Mendel says:
The new web site SUCKS! i liked it better when there was nothing and Lang actually came to work with the desire and passion to write a daily links column. Now he seems to have gotten comfortable and forgot his roots of what got himn there. But, it happens to the best of us.