The All New Stop Motion Works

Lio is back after a brief time contemplating if he should even continue his stop motion news service!

And wouldn't you know it, I was all set to write about the really cool brand new Lipton Brisk Iced Tea spot. Ron Cole told us about his Lipton Iced Tea project a few weeks ago. He was involved in creating the mechanical head for the Chuck Liddell puppet that was used in the viral video. Well Lio beat me to it, so I decided to let everyone know a little bit about his updated blog.

A couple of months ago I posted about our site update and how ancient the content management system was behind it all. I also mentioned how the site didn't incorperate some of the most basic and accepted additions to most blogs on the internet. Well Lio gave it some thought and was facing how antiquated his own blog was and if it was worth trying to modernize his own site to keep up with the rest of the world.

Of course I fealt bad about that because I fealt responsible for possibly causing the end of Lios blog. And that was definitely not my aim! So I told Lio I would help him out if he needed it and joined many others over at Stop Motion Animation to tell him that we love what he writes about. Luckily Lio thought twice about his initial decision and learned a few tricks to update his blog. Now you can add comments to his "as usual" great news posts, and the format he uses is I believe the same as most Wordpress blogs. So for a lot of you who already have accounts with Wordpress you can go in and make comments without much effort.

If you've visited Lios blog for some time and haven't been able to find it, he changed the URL slightly to http://www.stopmotionworks.com/news/. So make sure to check it out and read his latest news posts, especially the latest one about the Lipton ads.

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Hey .... pretty fancy around here
written by L.I.O., June 17, 2010

.... and good headline graphics about 'SMW News Web 2.0' .... catchy grabber line. It's only the News portion that's updated but makes it hell of a lot easier to update more frequently vs. manual html. Eventually, would update entire SMW site with new design/layout graphics and SMW News would match look. Those pages would be static so I don't think I will CMS and entire website at this time. Right now, too burned out 'crash coursing' about php, msql, phyadmin, database, etc. etc. .... but I'm digress & getting too nerdy techy (which is not me).

P.S. I hesitated putting my email address here because not sure if it will be published when this posts (I'm testing here) Maybe put tag line at bottom of this form .... 'Email address will not be published'

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written by Marc Spess, June 17, 2010

Hey Lio, your news looks great the way it is. It's a little cleaner and not as cluttered. Your e-mail isn't actually published in the comment area but it's used to subscribte when someone replies to your post.

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written by L.I.O., June 18, 2010

Back to Stop Mo & related .... don't forget you may have a different audience (some may not visit SMW) and as I see it and my view .... news, articles, etc. are for public and there is no rivalry or exclusive rights on news or stuff that's published. Its for ALL to share. The more people know about, the better.

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written by Marc Spess, June 19, 2010

Hi Lio, I can understand what you're saying about spreading the word about stop motion news topics. But - at the same time I also think that writing the same news can bring people away from your site if they think they can get it all on mine. It's probably not the case, but in the back of my mind sometimes I think that way. So I try to keep the news here a little bit unique compared to yours. It gives people a reason to go to both places.

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