Banners and Bollocks

Continuing thte theme of bringing this blog back to its original purpose, I seem to recall that way back in the first post, I said that announcements concerning The Sleaze would be made here. Well, I've suddenly realised that I've been somewhat remiss in failing to note here that The Sleaze has undergone a minor facelift recently. Whilst this has been confined mainly to the index page - which now sports a very fine banner and a new version of the logo - all pages now feature the new logo. There has also been a change to the strap-line on the index page, with the old slogan of "Incredible Lies Today - Still Bollocks Tomorrow" having given way to a fairly bland series of key words describing the site's content. This latter move was mainly for the benefit of search engines. However, so far it doesn't seem to have made much difference to our page rankings, so I'm minded to revert to the old slogan sometime soon.

A brief word on the banner - the background images are derived from old 'sleaze' paperback covers from the 1950s and 1960s. Whilst I'm greatly enamoured of this style of artwork and feel that they capture the true spirit of 'sleaze', I'm still troubled by the fact that they do tend to portray women as essentially submissive sex objects. Again, the background images might be tinkered with in future to try and incorporate some more positive portrayals of women. Indeed, I've been toying with the idea of having a series of randomly rotating background images for the banner.

There are more changes planned for the next few months, but these will mainly be 'under the hood' tweakings of the site's code and won't be so obvious to the casual reader. Overall, the aim is to make The Sleaze seem fresher and more accessible.