It’s only been forever and a day, I know. I’ve decided though that I very much enjoyed the time I spent here and want to experience that again. I love hearing about the great tees that people were able to find through my site and knowing that I was able to connect a person with a great t-shirt printer and get someone wearing something they fell in love with online.

So here I am, new design in hand and a pocketful of ideas! I’m still fleshing out some of the site here and I’m still toying around with a few things…so watch your step as I try new ideas here. As always, comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

If you step back through the archives you’ll get a taste for the variety of tees you’ll tend to see here. Sometimes something abstract and artistic catches my eye, and sometimes it’s something stupid and clever. You’re going to see me write about shirts you love, and shirts you hate. You can’t please everybody, taste is too subjective I think. Anyways, leave comments…let me know what you think of the t-shirts.

T-shirts show up…and t-shirts disappear. Nothing lasts forever, and that’s certainly true in the t-shirt world. Hell, there’s an entire sub-market dedicated to ultra-exclusive “one day availability” t-shirts! If you wade back into the archives here you’re bound to come across t-shirts and even brands that aren’t around anymore. So don’t sweat the occasional broken link, aight?

OH, and I almost forgot. If you haven’t already, sign up for my RSS feed by clicking that link or hitting the subscribe button at the top of the page. You can also subscribe by email if you’d prefer to get updates that way.

Thanks for your patience while I was working on things tonight. I wanted to give everyone a brief rundown of the new things here tonight. I haven’t made all the changes I’ve wanted to, and a few things are partially implemented, but I’ll continue to roll things out in stages. I’ve only got so many hours in a day!

WordPress 2.5 Upgrade
I know I’m a little late to the party on this one, but I upgraded WordPress to version 2.5. That doesn’t mean a whole lot from your perspective, but it gives me some neat tools under the hood to keep things truckin’ along here.

Find T-Shirts
This is a new section in the sidebar. currently, it will allow you to sort the t-shirt reviews by price. It’s really self-explanatory, and I think it’ll help you find not only shirts that you like, but shirts that are in your price range.

Related Posts
At the end of each post you’ll find a group of related posts. The related posts plugin actually reads and compares articles and doesn’t just rely on tags, keywords and the post title. The result? The posts listed are your best bet for a next move when you’ve finished a review, unless you want to buy the shirt of course!

Post Ratings
You can also rate each post 1-5 stars now. You can either rate my review or how you like the t-shirt, either one works. As always, if you really want to leave some feedback, that comment link is your best friend.

Ad Changes
The banner ads at the top and bottom of the page have been removed. They were sold through Project Wonderful (which is a great service) but you may have noticed they were not as targeted as they should be and were often unrelated to t-shirts. I’ve since replaced them with context-sensitive ads in the sidebar, so there’s more t-shirt goodness and less webcomic crap!

There’s a small handful of other tweaks as well, but that about covers it for tonight. Hopefully these changes will help you better enjoy the time you spend at T-Shirt Review Blog. Thanks again for reading!

You’re probably wondering where the hell I’ve been, eh? I’ve been doing a little work under the hood lately and wanted to give you all a heads-up on the new stuff here. Feel free to leave me your comments, I appreciate the input of course.

Changes in the header
Up at the top you might notice the tagline in the title graphic has changed from “So many shirts, so little time…” to “Find your next favorite shirt!” I made this change because I feel it’s a little bit more in line with what I’m trying to accomplish here. I want to help you find something that you’d love to wear, something you’ve just got to have.

The about and advertise links in the upper right are new as well. The old about link was tucked in the lower left corner of the header…many of you probably never knew it was there!

You can now advertise here
I had received some inquiries about advertising and realized I didn’t have a page to describe the options available. Click Advertise in the header to see your choices. An ad here is pretty cheap and reaches an incredibly targeted audience.

You can subscribe to tshirtreviewblog.com via email
At the top of the first sidebar you’ll notice an image you can click to subscribe to my RSS feed. I realize though that some of you don’t use (or prefer not to use) RSS newsreaders, and some of you might not know what RSS is. The link “Subscribe via email” gives you the opportunity to have each post delivered to your inbox like a newsletter.

I have some other improvements in mind, hopefully in February you’ll see those. That’s all for now, back to the shirts! I’ve got some awesome tees in the bank for you, so stay tuned!