It was nearly a month since I wanted to launch the new redesign, but it took a little longer than expected. To see what changed, you can view the past designs of v5.0 here: green, blue, red and orange.

I did a complete overhaul this time, which probably explains for the extra 30 days I needed to get this site off the ground. In the past, I've just done a face lift and concentrated on redesigning. This time, I went a few steps further so that everything on the site is custom coded. I moved away from Blogger and am writing everything to my own database so that I have complete control over the look and feel of anything that I want to do.

A few new features are how the archives are displayed, the search feature, the custom RSS feed and the modRewrite to get some URLs displaying nice for searching. The pics page also got a massive overhaul with the addition of some nice javascript and ajax calls.

I'm sure there are a few bugs that need to be tweaked, so if you see anything that needs to be fixed, be sure to let me know. Other than that, general opinions and first impressions are always welcome.

Truly one of the best Husker finishes that I've seen in a long time. This replaces the blunder in Lubbock earlier this year.

Happy birthday babe.

Since I don't check up on the local happenings that much since we moved out east, I miss some pretty big announcements. Like the one about the new West Haymarket Arena.

I know that you need to have the latest and greatest facilities to attract fans and new recruits, but how can you get rid of The Bob? Just think of what kind of horrible experience the college kids will have when they camp out and wait for the Kansas game a day early. They need to earn that front row seat by standing on freezing concrete for 20+ hours and listening to people like Holbein call up the Embassy Suites at 3am and asking for "Jeffrey Graves." When the hotel operator actually patched him through, you just heard him yelling "All night long Graves. ALLLLL NIGHHTTTTT LONGGGG!!!!!"

I'm sure they'll still camp out, but with people cutting out of line to grab some fries at Lazlo's, it won't be the same. It won't be the same at all.

But, in the long run, if this can attract more recruits and start dumping bodies in the seats, then I'm all for it. Just as long as gma, mom and dad don't lose their killer seats. There's nothing like going to a game and listening to Matt Davidson tell you about which bars he's planning to hit up when he's done chatting it up with Kent Pavelka. (Yes, if you click that link, that's me in the background of the 2nd picture wearing my "Nebraska Engineering" shirt. I couldn't be more proud to make Kent's professional website)

I took this in the old market right before I left Omaha. I was extremely surprised to see such liberal postings in such a conservative state. Either way, I thought it was a great flyer and couldn't think of any other time to post it.

Enjoy.