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<\/a>As seems to be the norm lately (and probably for the last few thousand years), time has just flown by! I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s July already. I also can\u2019t believe ItsAllTrue.net is four years old! <\/p>\n![](\"newsimages\/iatv1.jpg\")
I\u2019ve wanted to give IAT a makeover for a few months now and the 4th Anniversary seemed like a great time. Of course, the thought to revamp the site only really hit me a week ago and made for a hectic week of color swatches, furious coding, and cursing the makers of the various browsers for their inability to make things universal! <\/p>\n
I\u2019ll still be working out the kinks on the live site (no matter what, the live site never seems to work as well as the version I had in the sandbox), so please bear with me this week as we sort all the little bits of charm our new design will have brought about.<\/p>\n
But, that\u2019s all technical stuff! IAT is four! Woah? Seems like just yesterday that I was taking horrible, fuzzy photographs of the early MOTU & DC figures for those first reviews. I think we\u2019ve come a long way over the years, but we want to go further. <\/p>\n
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Some changes to my world have left IAT adrift a bit this year as we\u2019re on pace for our first \u201cdown\u201d year since we started. We\u2019re not off by much, so Vault & I are aiming for a strong second half to keep our growth streak alive for one more year. <\/p>\n
To do so, we\u2019re going to make a few changes going forward. Neither Vault nor I have been able to keep up the pace of daily reviews this year. Partially, due to just being too busy, but also because it was something we never really set out to do. When we planned things out four years ago, the idea was to have all these fun features \u2013 Amusing Articulations, Friday Five, Costume Consensus, Most Requested, Mr. Rant, I could go on. Now, some of those just didn\u2019t get over all that well, but we want to come up with some ideas to make them more popular or even some new ideas altogether. One thing that I really want to get in for this year is my \u201cReCollect!\u201d blog. Partially because I think it\u2019ll be fun, but all because I still need motivation to setup my toy collection in my new house. <\/p>\n
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The other thing we\u2019ll be doing is bringing back the News. It\u2019s been nearly a year since we featured News regularly and that is probably the biggest culprit in our growth rate being off this year. We don\u2019t have the manpower to keep as updated as some of the big boys out there, but we will do a better job of bringing the news for the lines we collect (MOTU, DC, NECA, Transformers Masterpiece, Third Party & Seventh Market Toys, etc) back to IAT and keep the conversation going for the toys we love. <\/p>\n
Since Reviews are much more complicated than News, we\u2019ve installed the new Slider at the top of the page to keep the most recent reviews visible instead of being pushed down by the news (we\u2019re just not big scrollers). We\u2019ve also started a new system of color coding the posts \u2013 so far with Reviews, News, & Sponsor Updates \u2013 so that readers can make their way through the site at a glance. <\/p>\n
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I think that covers the changes. Mainly just pardon my mess this week as I tune up the revamp and comb through the checklists now that I have some free time (& SDCC is coming to make them instantly outdated!). So, let’s say one final goodbye to those octagons. I know there’s a still a few over there to the right, but they’re on my list awaiting some inspiration. <\/p>\n
We’re going into year five and it’s time to pump some more life back into the site. I’ve talked about what I have planned coming up, but what do you guys want to see? I know you love Batman, but a site couldn’t exist on Batman reviews alone (well, it totally could… probably every day for years, but that’s beside the point!). Let me know if you\u2019ve got any great ideas for content you\u2019d like to see her at IAT as put together what will hopefully be a banner fifth year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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