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Newbs here, I just wanted to let you, the readership, know that Shufflingdead is bringing on a new writer. He’s Jiffy the Intern, and he’s going to be helping me out with all the news stories I haven’t had time to post.

You’ll see news posts by Jiffy popping up regularly over the next few weeks. When he’s finished his job and I no longer have use for him, he’ll be summarily executed and then fired for being dead.

Jiffy’s a good kid, so don’t be too hard on him.

Comments on all posts here at Shufflingdead are now open. If you hate (or, unlikely though it may be, have some other sentiment) toward any individual piece of content here at the site, you may now announce that opinion to the world.

Look to the navigation bar at the far right of the site, and you will see a “Login” heading which provides you with everything you need to register and start posting here at Shufflingdead.com.

When viewing an update while logged in, you are now able to scroll to the bottom of that update and enter your comment. You’ll see a nice big box just ready for you to fill with your precious words. We at Shufflingdead are attention whores and we thrive on your participation. I thank everyone in advance for whatever they may have to say.

Why not start your commenting career by throwing something at this particular update?

Until now, only phases 1-5 of “The New and Thrilling Shufflingdead.com” project were known. They were:

Phase 1: Finish porting site over to WordPress
Phase 2: Update at least minimally
Phase 3: Promote site
Phase 4: Expand the Shufflingdead empire
Phase 5: Increase quality

Phase 5, I feel, has gone superbly. The “News” section of the site was introduced under this phase, and with it came an endless march of stories that I’ve had fun writing, and which I suspect have been fun for the Shufflingdead readership.

And now, it is my pleasure to introduce Phases 6 through 8 of the project:

→ Continue reading The Shufflingdead train to success

Today is missing Shufflingdead’s traditional Sunday video. That likely shocks and offends you, and I’m sorry. Still, effort is being applied to the site today. To begin with, I have uncovered a number of updates which didn’t previously have proper homes on the site, and as such didn’t come over with the move to WordPress. I’ve now restored:

Three open letters:
Jewel
Amy Lee
William Shatner

Two blog posts:
On Blogging and Minish Cap
Minish Cap: Complete

And one Word of the Week:
Intense

These old updates eventually spawned the Blogs and Things of the Week sections, which have both become integral parts of Shufflingdead.com. In looking over these early attempts at creating small, less structured updates to the site, I became inspired. I’ve decided to start a new blog here at Shufflingdead, called The Dungeon’s Boss, the first update of which will be viewable later today.

I’m pleased to announce that the Shufflingdead news section has launched. Expect five news stories a week from now until I get bored. There is quite a backlog of stories I want to cover, so you may see some older stories appearing for awhile. To accommodate the diverse array of topics I plan on covering in the news section, I’ve added tags to the content of the site, and you can browse those tags on the right.

If you have any thoughts regarding the news section, tags, or anything else on the site, you can let me know about them by using the all new contact page. Oooh. I’d be especially interested to hear opinions on Shufflingdead’s layout, since I’m playing with that right now.

I’m not entirely sure how I fell into the habit of making a Monday blog post every week, but here I am yet again.

I haven’t stopped thinking about the development of Shufflingdead, and am dedicated to keeping the site interesting to both our readers and to myself. Over the next couple of weeks, I plan on first shifting to a two-column layout rather than the current three, then adding tags to the content on the site, and finally launching a “news” section.

You might have seen some strange things going on with the front page this past weekend, and that was from me doing some early tests on these changes.

My plan is that I will have a daily news item appearing on the site, complete with sarcastic commentary from its poster. I’ll then shift to only having a couple TotWs running at a time, but continue the same number of total updates.

As I like to say, let’s begin.

Let me begin by apologizing for the lack of a video yesterday, I’m planning to get one up Tuesday instead. Future weeks will see the schedule restored.

As development of what I’ve been calling “The New and Thrilling Shufflingdead.com” continues, I’ve reached the point that I must now consider Phase 5 and beyond. Let’s look at the phases thus far:

Phase 1: Finish porting site over to WordPress
Phase 2: Update at least minimally
Phase 3: Promote site
Phase 4: Expand the Shufflingdead empire

All of those have now been accomplished, and for those that require an ongoing effort, those efforts continue. Now, what is Phase 5? Phase 5 is Increase quality. I’ve already laid out much of what I want to see happen with regard to content on the site: more articles, more videos, more comics, and more TotWs, with many of those things being contributions from people who aren’t me.

The other thing that I haven’t mentioned before is that I am also slowly trying to get the TotWs rejuvenated. Last week saw the rebirth of “Prehistoric Organism of the Week” as “Creature of the Week,” and I want to consider what other old TotW I can bring back like that, I’ve been mulling over “Game Character Q&A” specifically.

Phase 6 and beyond are still unknown.