Some of you may have noticed that the site has been down for the last couple of days. During some routine maintenance, I found some hackers had placed some malicious code in the site’s PHP files. It wasn’t anything that would pose a danger to any readers – rather, it injected hundreds of spam links into my page headers. To make sure the infection was completely purged, I decided to recreate the site from scratch. I exported all the old posts into XML and rebuilt the backend database and file structure from fresh copies.

I took this as a great opportunity to give the site a fresh new look – something I had been wanting to do for awhile. I’ve styled the site more like an online magazine now, and am working hard to improve the user experience and make navigation a lot easier. Some of the changes I am implementing:

• complete reorganization of tags and categories to help you navigate better
• more of an article-based structure to new posts, emphasising quality over quantity
• optimizing all images to decrease page loading times
• more integration with social media such as Twitter and Facebook
• better search engine optimization to help bring new readers to the site

I have already updated a lot of the site, but it will take me some time to go through all of the archives and fix the old posts. For now, if you see a post in the category “uncategorized”, it has not been updated. Any posts which are categorized and have tags have been optimized. Also, I will be touching up the main page, getting all thumbnail images and links working, fleshing out the sidebars, and a host of other stuff. Please bear with me while I get back on my feet.

I hope you enjoy the new look. Please, if you have any comments or notice any broken links, pictures that don’t load, or any error messages, please contact me!

Thanks for your patience during this new phase in lootcorp’s history.

-Jim