Like our new look?

ePodunk has been redesigned by ePodunk co-founder John Decker, former multimedia editor of the New York Times on the Web and Web designer for the Detroit Free Press. Most recently, John worked as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s photographer. In addition to making ePodunk pages more aesthetically pleasing, John has also reorganized our content to enhance the user experience.

John says: “The redesign attempts to make the large volume of information in our ePodunk databases more user friendly and accessible to our users. It is my hope that users will be able to find what they are looking for more quickly (through the quick links on the left of the profile pages), and maybe even find interesting things that they weren’t even looking for.

“It has been 6 years since the launch of ePodunk and the site has not had a redesign since then. In the meantime, users have gotten better computers and larger screens, and we are trying to take advantage of the added real estate of the bigger screens as well as some of the new design options that were not available to us 6 or 7 years ago.

I hope they enjoy the new look.”

John goes by podunker on the web site, regularly contributing photos for our home page and community pages.

As you’re checking out the improved ePodunk, you’ll see that we’ve also added some new features. There is now a set of quick links on the upper left side of our community pages. Instead of scrolling, simply click the category that interests you to go immediately go to that section of the page. Looking through our quick links, you may find topics of interest you didn’t even know we listed!

On the right side of our pages, user blogs and reviews are featured in a bright blue box. Place-themed literary quotes are highlighted on the right side of the page as well.

Our maps have been revamped. You can now click the boxes on our interactive map to highlight the locations of the features that interest you most. You could choose to display hotels and colleges, or maybe libraries and museums. Mouse over the pins to see the label on each pin, or click on a pin to link to related info on ePodunk.

We’re also excited about our new blog and news feeds. In addition to our user blogs and reviews located at the top of the page, we now link to blogs written by community members who write regularly on issues and events in their cities and towns. These outside ePodunk blogs are located on the lower right side of our pages. Directly below the new blogs, we link to the latest news stories from local papers.

We have added thousands of these links to our database, and continue to expand the selection each day. If you would like to suggest a blog or news site, please send us an email.

We’re thrilled with the new look of ePodunk and we hope that you enjoy using it! As always, questions and comments can be sent to info@epodunk.com.

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