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New, Improved Features!

We are happy to announce the release of a couple of new features at NHLPens.com. 

First, we have completely overhauled our user interface for our visitors using mobile devices.  The new interface will give users an excellent  mobile application experience when viewing NHLPens from popular touch-based smartphones like iPhone^TM, iPod touch^TM, Android^TM, Palm^TM Pre/Pixi, and BlackBerry Storm^TM.  Additionally, if you are an iPhone or iPod Touch user, you can also select “Add to Home Screen” by pushing the “+” button when viewing the site.  This will make NHLPens.com appear on your Home screen just like all of your other Apps do, making NHLPens just a touch away!   To overcome Apple’s flash limitations, we have changed all of our video feeds to YouTube format, so that you can now access them all from your Apple device as well. 

Next, we have created a daily news digest that will provide a roundup of all the day’s news that is related to your Pittsburgh Penguins.  This news digest will be posted each day in the late afternoon and will provide a brief introduction and links to all the interesting news stories related to your Penguins from that day.  If you are a NHLPens subscriber and have opted to recieve e-mail notification of updates to our blog, you will automatically get these daily roundups delivered to your mailbox each day.  Of course, you can turn this off in your profile if you would like. 

We hope that you like these new features.  We are gearing up for what is sure to be another exciting year of Penguins hockey.  With the loss of Sergei Gonchar and Mark Eaton to Free Agency, the addition of Paul Martin and Zbynek Michalek to the blueline, and a brand new world-class arena, there will surely be a lot of changes for the Pens this coming season…..and we will be there every step of the way.  Look for more blog updates this season, as we are now beyond the family health issues that slowed us down in 2009/10.   As always, Let’s Go Pens!

 

NHLPens.com Redesigned for Playoffs

I am very happy to present the newly remodeled NHLPens.com, just in time for the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs!  I have overhauled the theme to make the features of the site more accessible from the “Home” page.  First, the site now features the last 3-posted articles using an image/text slideshow box at the top left of the home page.  To read a featured article, simply click on the image and you will be taken to the full posting.  Just below the slideshow, there is a summary listing of the last five featured articles so you can quickly navigate to a recent article.  We are also categorizing every article as news, opinion, analysis, announcements and the like so that you can easily navigate to and read the content that you would like.  You can access these categories at the top of the home page, or view summaries of the past few articles in each category a little further down the home page.  The home page also includes an embedded video from the NHL or the Pittsburgh Penguins.  This video will change frequently and will highlight player interviewsm game highlights and other compelling content.  On the right “sidebar” of the home page, you will find a live NHL scoreboard that updates in near real-time, the latest NHLPens.com poll, the latest news clippings scoured from the internet and more!  From the navigation bar at the top of the home page, you can still step off to other pages of great content to include the Team roster, schedule/results, stats, standings, the Forum message board, our video page, great Fan gear and more!  I hope you find the site’s redesign both appealing and functional.  If you have any feedback, we would love to hear from you.  You can either comment on this post, or send me an e-mail at Paul@NHLPens.com.  As always, thanks for visiting us at NHLPens.com!

Let’s Go Pens!

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