Welcome!

Comments Off POSTED ON Jul 05 2006 AT 3:42 pm BY Beat

Welcome to The Beat’s new home at Publishers Weekly! We’re still figuring a few things out, like categories and the sidebar and so on. But we have comments back and would LOVE to hear from you. We’ll be having our very own shakedown cruise over the next few days. We’re still getting used to Wordpress, which is an interesting mix of really cool and really nerdy. If anyone knows how to convert our old sidebar from an html file to opml, we’re all ears. Otherwise, we’ll be rolling out some of our new features in this exciting pre-San Diego period. For SD we’ll have some stuff that is so cool we dare not even imagine it. Otherwise, welcome to the all new Beat! We look forward to seeing you here every day!

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Congrats on the move Heidi, nice logo up top (and the addition of comments is a bonus)…

  2. Hey the place looks great gurlie! I was wondering when the move was and what the heck the URL would be. I gotta update all my links at home now.

    Best Wishes on the new “home”

    JD

  3. I just lurve what you’ve done with your background…

  4. dave g says:

    The new site looks really great.

  5. Ragnell says:

    Hey, cool, you have a comments spot now.

  6. The site does look great, and if you ever need any free pointers on Wordpress, I’d be happy to try to point you in the right direction. I use it on my site myself, and it’s a pretty good bit of software.

  7. Matt M. says:

    Congratulations on the move, Heidi, even if the background isn’t what I would have chosen…

  8. Comments!!

    Good luck with the new site!
    -J

  9. Bob Agamemnon says:

    Congratulations and good luck!

  10. Ray Cornwall says:

    Maybe one of these links, Heidi? There’s a few Wordpress resources in here…

    ttp://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts

  11. Jaime Ramirez says:

    Looking good. Can’t wait til the content gets rolling…

  12. Jose de Leon says:

    Congratulations on the move, Heidi! -lh

  13. John Platt says:

    Love the new logo!

  14. MisterPhil says:

    Congrats on your new home, Heidi! Looks great already!

  15. Denis says:

    Oh God… My eyes! My eyes! What a ghastly background colour! Please, for the love of god… mercy! :-)

    Otherwise, congratulations on your new site! The Beat remains my first port of call for Comic News!

  16. Elayne Riggs says:

    The new place looks quite spiffy, Heidi! Although I’m inclined to agree with Dennis that you might consider a different color scheme for the side stripes, the important thing is that comments are back, the RSS feeds seem to be working perfectly, and your picture at the top looks swell! I’ve duly publicized the move on my blog today.

  17. Anonymous says:

    Heidi:
    Let’s see if this codes correctly.

    The new syndicated feed at LJ is pwbeatblog (the previous one was thebeatblog)

    There are buttons you can put up if you want people to add the RSS feed to their Bloglines, etc for Wordpress here:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48167

  18. Tony Lee says:

    I love your Elvis shades.

    I expect to see you sporting them constantly at San Diego…

    Glad you’ve found a new home. :-)

  19. Hey Heidi, I love the new site. It is bookmarked and will be visited every day. I like the brown on the top/sides, logo & font, etc..

    I suspect the comments section will become quite entertaining.

  20. The Beat says:

    Just F everyone’s I, the colors are based on the PW website, so it’s all themed, etc etc.

    And if you haven’t signed up for the controversial PW Comics Week that everyone is talking about, now is the time!

  21. Jace says:

    Congrats, Heidi! As a reader of PW and The Beat (and, yes, a subscriber to the nifty PW Comics Week newsletter), I’m happy to see you relocated here and hope that your presence will spruce up PW.com a bit. ;)

    Cheers,
    Jace
    http://televisionary.blogspot.com

  22. Shane says:

    I lvoe the new site and I’m glad you finally have comments again. Congrats on the move!

  23. Brigid says:

    Congratulations on the move! The site looks great. Wordpress totally rocks. Once you get used to it, it’s a breeze.

    And I like the colors. Very restful on the eyes after surfing through so many blogs with flashing banner ads.

  24. Very awesome!! Love the new place!!! Nice URL, too!:D

  25. Dani says:

    Hey Heidi!
    The new URL loads a lot better and faster than the Comicon.com one, so it’s certainly a good move, coming over to PW! Congrats!
    Though, the Add to My Yahoo! thing seems to be broken. I’m sure it’ll fix itself eventually!

  26. Dan Goldman says:

    Congrats; feels like the Beat got a LEVEL UP…

    Nice to have the commenting working fine too; go-go WordPress!

  27. Congrats on your move, H!

    Looks good. I’ll be tuning in.

  28. Leigh Walton says:

    Will THE BEAT become the new FANBOY RAMPAGE comments section?

    ONLY TIME WILL TELL! SEE YOU IN THIRTY!

  29. Heidi Meeley says:

    The new header is fabulous! It will just enhance the fact that your blog is the place to go for the scoop. Keep up the good work!

    The “other” Heidi M. !!!

  30. Ali Kokmen says:

    One more congratulations! Onward and upward. Or, I suppose I should say: EXCELSIOR!

    –ATK

  31. badMike says:

    Woo-hoo! The Beat’s on WordPress! It’s really an awesome tool with many great features I hope you come to know and love. I’m not sure about your sidebar question since I started using WordPress to compile my blogroll. But I’m sure the answer is out there. Post on the WordPress support board. I usually find help there.

  32. Michael says:

    Yay! Love the new place!

  33. Brian Spence says:

    COMMENTS!! Wow, this is great. I like the new place…

  34. Lea says:

    I notice not everything posted in the last couple weeks or so has migrated from The Beat @ comicon.com. Is it still being moved, or will The Beat at PW have a diffderent focus?

  35. H Park says:

    It’s great. I acutally like the colors of the page ^_^ it’s so up beat and sleek. Sad to see movabletype go.. but guess it was inevitable.

  36. My comment is: YAY!!

  37. Hurray for the upgrade, Heidi! See you soon!

  38. Great new look, Heidi. And the comments section is great too!!

  39. Nice to see the blog up again! Looks much nicer!


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