Blast off - the new OnPitRow.com is live!

Consider this fair warning.  If you have been kind enough to link to this blog, I'll be pestering you soon to update your link to the new BenchRacing.OnPitRow.com.  In fact, this is your first official pester.

The redesign of our websites, while probably never done, is far enough along to where the switch has been thrown.  Out with the old and... well you know.  We would not have gotten here without the talents and inspiration of Luke, commander of the Thunder Lounge.  Luke doesn't just run one of the best sites in the NASCAR web-world, he is an elite code-monster.  We needed a pro and we got one.  Check out Luke's comments on the new OnPitRow.com here.

This has been a big week for ON PIT ROW in general.  Tuesday's show featured a live interview with Boris Said, who confirmed that he is indeed, very close to finalizing a ride for the Bathurst 1000 and perhaps more, races in the Australian V8Super Car Series.  Thanks to Marc for the heads up on that. 

Daren Fauth of OneBadWheel.com joinded us to talk fantasy NASCAR and his new game "Champs, Chumps and Sleepers".  Steve and I are proud to be sponsors of Champs, Chumps and Sleepers and it will be the official fantasy NASCAR game of ON PIT ROW for the 2008 season.  Check it out and sign up today.

Finally, starting next Tuesday, February 5, 2008, you'll be able to listen to ON PIT ROW live, on the new website.  To stream or not to stream has been a debate at the show for a couple years.  We just, plain had too many requests for live streaming to ignore any longer.

I would appreciate your comments about the new OnPitRow.com.  There are still some bugs to work out and not all of the pages are up as yet, so bear with us.  I'll be updating our blogroll over the next few days so if anything has changed for you, let me know.  If you have a link to the Fast Lap blog - and why wouldn't you? -  please update that one as well.  Thanks.

Comments

[Racedriven]

I like the idea that you are moving to a new location and hopefully that you don't have to buy alot for considering typepad is pricey, but you might want to consider buying a .com too.

Think about, no more asking people to change their bookmarks and all of the traffic is now going to have to adjust, feed included, may be worth looking into and no i'm selling anything, however I say this from experience as I am blogger too with my own .com.

Just a thought.

[Charlie]

Thanks for the advice Racedriven. We've actually owned and used onpitrow.com for a few years. This Typepad blog was started because the web host that we had chosen for onpitrow.com didn't have very good blogging software and I didn't know any better way to do what I wanted to do - blog about NASCAR and our radio show. Typepad is a fine platform and I was reluctant to move the blog, but we needed to bring everything under the onpitrow.com domain. The change will be a bit of a hassle and we will likely lose some traffic in the short run, but I believe the new site is so good, that the work will be worth it. Thanks a lot for the comment.

[Luke]

Actually, RSS will be the easy part.

As long as the url bookmarked in your feed reader is through Feedburner, there won't need to be any change. :)

Feedburner is pretty slick like that. :)