New front page - Broken StuffOver the weekend, as part of the effort to improve the design of the page, I updated the look and content of the front page of the site. I hope you all like it, but if you don't feel free to email me with your comments and complaints. The front page now features our new logo, which will soon be gracing every page of the site. As soon as I get time to put it up there.
And in the process of the redesign, I discovered that the pub-crawl pages for the three non-Chicago pages do not work. I don't know why.
UPDATE: I've gotten the pub-crawl function working again for every city. It was a tiny bug, which apparently shows up only in a city other than Chicago, but the code now has a miniscule difference that makes it work.
Patrick
Store!After much monkeying about with logos, and files, and images, our
Drinktown store is now available at cafepress. Go there to sport our wares, and support our site. Drinktown gets very little advertising revenue right now, and is an entirely free service, so this is an awesome opportunity for you to support a site you use.
Those of you with keen observational skills will notice that out store features clothing with our new logo, despite the fact that our old logo is still prominently displayed on the site. This is because we have yet to finish the page designs, but the logo work is done.
Peace, and happy shopping.
Patrick
EmailingI've added a new feature allowing people to save pages (and therefore specials) that they like on their favorites, or to email them to friends. Right now it is only up for Chicago, but I will update the other 4 cities soon.
Up on the top right of the map page there are two new links. One reads
Email this page to a friend, the other
link to this page. The email link does exactly what it sounds like. It opens up an email with a blank address and a complicated url in the body. That url will tell each page exactly where and what you were looking at when you hit the email button.
The
link to this page function allows you to save a special in your favorites, or in some other way save a link to this page. It uses the same complicated url that the email does, telling your browser and the web page exactly where you want to go.
Enjoy!
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ChiditarodThis weekend a team sponsored by Drinktown competed in the first annual Chiditarod.
The Chiditarod is a charity race in the style of the famous Iditarod. But instead of dogs pulling a sled, you have costumed people pulling a shopping cart. Sound crazy? It was. But I am pretty certain that everyone involved had an awesome time. I know our team did.
We did moderately well. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly, got the Drinktown name out, and donated over 40lbs of food to charity. It is my opinion that we should have earned honorable mentions for most wired cart (we had gps, laptop maps, ipod, and camcorder) and for best wipe-out (I had two excellent spills), but there were no such prizes awarded.
Most interestingly we were told that a few of the members of the planning committee had used Drinktown to try to find bars near the course of the race. I hope they found the site useful and keep using it.
More pictures of the race are available at Flickr
Patrick
