{"id":53318,"date":"2012-02-16T04:58:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T09:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=53318"},"modified":"2012-02-16T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T19:40:41","slug":"welcome-back-to-planet-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/welcome-back-to-planet-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back to Planet Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

Good morning.<\/p>\n

We’ve just finished an upgrade of Planet Waves. We’re now back to our regular blogging schedule. We’ve spent the last three days cleaning up a bunch of little presentation issues that were getting in the way, and added some features that were long overdue. Coming out of Reality Check, the 2012 annual edition<\/a>, we were in “build website mode” and this seemed like the time to do it. I love how the Reality Check site works, so we took that as inspiration.<\/p>\n

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Full Moon rises over Sounion, the temple to Neptune near Athens, in 2011. Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just to orient you on some of what we’ve done — nothing too shocking really — the first thing I did was get rid of a lot of unnecessary clutter. That felt great, to work from a blank sidebar and a clean page template. The Daily Astrology feature will still update at midnight five days a week, and you’ll recognize that by a little section of an astrology chart that accompanies each edition.<\/p>\n

Then you’ll notice the slide show that’s going to stay at the top of the site. This will showcase the most recent feature from our subscriber series, as well as some classics. This way you’ll know just what’s in that mysterious subscriber edition you keep hearing about. That’s where the horoscopes are; we remain the only one of about 113,000,000 astrology websites<\/a> to only offer horoscopes only to paying subscribers. These come with the feature articles you see illustrated above and other benefits as well.<\/p>\n

We’ve also added sign homepages on the right, which give a basic extended sign description and provide a space for discussion of themes related to your sign. Those are open to everyone. Audio materials are easy to find. Our whole audio channel is linked from the top, as Planet Waves FM. Along the sidebar, there’s welcome message for new readers, the special 2012 series is featured and you can access my podcast directly.<\/p>\n

If you’re a subscriber, your point of entry is “Member and Subscriber Login” on the right. We’re developing the whole “membership” concept for those to whom it’s a more appealing idea. Our next project is a revamp of the Subscriber Homepage, which will take a couple of months to complete. But we’re on it! We’ve added a Customer Service page, so that you can find Chelsea, who handles that side of things.<\/p>\n

If there’s something you’re looking for, or if you have any ideas for improvements, please let us know in the comments below. If you’ve ever done a website, you know how these things go — it takes forever to figure out how it’s supposed to be, then you figure out what you need to change and…good thing it’s all so flexible. Special thanks to Anatoly, Chelsea, Amanda and Jessica for putting together the new look, and to David Arner (my astrology teacher) for helping me figure out when to launch it for maximum benefit.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your patience as we reworked the site, thanks for visiting and thank you to our customers and subscribers, who help make our publishing experiment possible. No car insurance ads here! We much prefer you as our sponsor.<\/p>\n

Lovingly,
\n\"Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: Good morning. We’ve just finished an upgrade of Planet Waves. We’re now back to our regular blogging schedule. We’ve spent the last three days cleaning up a bunch of little presentation issues that were getting in the way, and added some features that were long overdue. Coming out of Reality Check, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}