For some reason half the supporting images on the site didn't load in the x64 version of Internet Explorer so I took the opportunity to make a few improvements/experiments while I was correcting this issue on the story view page.

Here's whats new:

- Community tags are slightly different now to support Narps, community-organized contests, and industry events. Did I miss anything you'd like on that list?

- Tag names now appear next to the author name, so it will say "Brad Rice" on Guilty Gear, etc. I think it does a better job of introducing the story without adding clutter and the link is actually interesting now that we have the quick view tag pages

- Galleries no longer show the epic gigantor block of images. Instead, it simply shows the last 6 and says "X many photos in the gallery and they appear above the editorial in a thin strip. We can make it more interactive later

- I cleaned up how llatest comments look and it also now supports longer comment previews followed by a post divider. It also looks cleaner when you're viewing the full story

- I updated the bottom of the page with article previews instead of just headline previews and mug shots so you don't have to click into them to see what they were all about

- the back buttons now display the digest view instead (I'm iffy on this one. I think I like it because it lets me catch up with the news faster if I missed a few hours, but I'm not sure everyone will. What do you think?)

Obviously we waste a lot of space near the gutters after the sixth post which is something I'm trying to engineer against. We can have a much cooler multi-tabbed footer with a little work and some Ajax. Its a work in progress, too!

Any requests for the next round of site improvements? Put me to work!