Philly Launches; Brooklyn Redesigned
Big news around Brownstoner HQ: After many months of planning, Brownstoner Philadelphia launches this morning. With its incredible architectural history and passionate residents, Philly has the two key ingredients for a successful Brownstoner community. With Gabby Warshawer, a three-year veteran of Brownstoner Brooklyn, at the helm and a handful of local contributors in place, we…
Big news around Brownstoner HQ: After many months of planning, Brownstoner Philadelphia launches this morning. With its incredible architectural history and passionate residents, Philly has the two key ingredients for a successful Brownstoner community. With Gabby Warshawer, a three-year veteran of Brownstoner Brooklyn, at the helm and a handful of local contributors in place, we hope to do exciting things in the City of Brotherly Love. We urge you to check out the site and, please, take a minute to shoot an email to your friends and family in the area.
In related news, you may notice that things look a little different around here. With the help of the crack team at Six Apart, we’re pleased to debut an updated look for Brownstoner. Not too much has changed: The headlines are a little bigger, we’ve added some shortcuts for spreading stories via Twitter and Facebook, and we’ve tried to bring the neighborhood archives into greater prominence.
In the future, we hope to start having some overlap between the Philly and Brooklyn sites where appropriate. Most importantly, we plan to introduce a shared Forum, where posts that are not geographically specific can share feedback. At some point, the renovation blogs may be co-mingled too.
We look forward to your feedback on both sites. Please kick the tires and let us know if you see any problems. Thanks for playing.
Mr. B
Ah, ok was my browser issue. Looks much better.
yup, new site is a mess on firefox. some of the graphics elements are replaced with text, and the alignment is odd. i checked with explorer and it looks much better, but should be able to get it to work on all browsers, right?
To Mr. B. When switched to the Philadelphia site, the top Brownstoner home banner still retains the “Brooklyn Inside and Out” tagline
Also it would be great to add a “reply function”like Gawker has so that BHO and DIBS debates can be condensed in one place, instead of having a running debate that runs throughout more general comments.
What about Brownstoner Chicago? Huge market of 19th Century homes and new development that is underserved by the blogger community.
I love this! It looks great, Mr. B. I especially like that the commenter’s name is above their comment…makes skipping that much easier 🙂 Congrats!
How about a feature where you can hide certain posters comments? Some other sites like facebook have a hide feature.
That $165k house is just a few blocks from East Passyunk (LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE IT), the hottest nabe in all of Philly and VERY, VERY safe because it’s an pold-school Italian neighborhood…Pat’s and Gino’s are not far away!!!!
I spent my early salad days in Philly. Had five one year leases in five different neighborhoods—West Philly, Center City, Queens Village, Northern Liberties and Old City. Still have lots of friends there. Will try to indocrinate them, but they are a pretty cynical lot…