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Holy fucking shit! Stop the presses! The Citypaper has redesigned their website. That disgusting tired ass lame as fuck website is no longer. It looks so much better. It has a nice wider more contemporary feel to it rather than the old 800px wide monitor assuming design scheme.

And it's got a comments section for each article taking what the Inky/DN have done on Philly.com a step further.

I have no idea when this change occurred. I'm not sure how long it's been since I checked the CP website. The days have blurred together in the last few weeks – by my count, I've worked 203 hours so far this month. And by my calculations, I'll be working another 24 hours or so Thursday through Saturday. But I digress…

Will Philadelphia Weekly get busy on a redesign now? I think the PW site looks nice, just the front page narrow column layout is annoying.

The search function on both sites blow goat balls. The CP search returns results with over 100% relevancy while not being relevant to what I searched. Searching for "Albert Yee" via CP's search returns this result at 180% relevancy instead of say this article or this piece or this article. And I know my name hasn't appeared in PW (except formerly in the masthead), but I do know that the search function for the site is bad. Using the Google Toolbar on top of my FFX browser and using the Site Search function is much better.

And I say this while clearly saying that I know JACK SHIT about coding a proper search functionality. I know PW has a tiny web staff [read: two], I'm assuming CP has just as few. Getting the site to look nice is wonderful. Being able to search the site for specific things would be incredible. One step at a time :)

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