We’re proud to launch the brand new design for 24spoilers.com! Over the last weeks we’ve moved to a faster and more reliable web server and today we debut our new theme. The site was completely rebuilt from scratch and we tried to strike a nice balance between making things fresh and keeping it familiar.
Literally every single element of the site has been tweaked or redone, but we’re going to walk you through a handful of the more notable changes.
Navigation
The first thing you’ll notice is the new streamlined navigation bar at the top of the page. It takes up much less vertical screen space than before and floats at the top of the page as you scroll down.
Articles
Images are now higher resolution and quality, and they’ll show up at the very top of posts. Videos will also appear at the very top as well (here’s an example). This requires updating thousands of posts, so it will be a while before the older stories.
There’s larger more legible fonts, pull quotes for articles, sub-headline teaser text, redesigned audio and video players, and redesigned polls among other things.
Gallery Pages
Photo gallery pages (like this one) have a black background so you can better focus on the images themselves. The title and description are now positioned to the right of the photo so that you don’t have to scroll down to see the image details.
The other images are now represented with larger thumbnails. On mobile devices you can now swipe through the photos and on desktop browsers you can navigate with your left and right arrow keys.
Newsletter
We’ve got a daily newsletter in the sidebar that you can sign up for. This will send you a single email per day with a roundup of all our posts from that day. There’s an opt out link at the bottom of each email if you wish to stop receiving email updates. We respect your privacy – no spam, promise.
Mobile Support
We’ve always worked hard to make sure the site works on mobile. You can now search from mobile, access the social network links, swipe through gallery pages, and watch more videos than before.
Other Stuff
- Music page now has larger album arts and we’ll soon have an audio player there where you can stream every track.
- Cast pages now have widescreen images, Instagram profiles, and a sidebar that shows their latest posts. Much more to come with this later.
- Sidebar now has trending and latest news combined in a toggle to reduce clutter. In addition to the newsletter mentioned above, there’s also a featured poll that will be updated every couple of days.
- Speed. The design is extremely optimized and should load faster than before. And there’s still some optimizations to do on the server side which will make it go even faster.
This new design will continue to be tweaked and iterated on, and there’s most likely some bugs and quirks to work out. We cannot possibly test on every single browser and device out there, so if you come across a bug please don’t hesitate to report it and we’ll try to get it fixed ASAP.
Almost every other “24” website has either shut down or been inactive for years, but we’re committed to making this a great community for fans of the show. Everyone who posts comments, shares our posts on social networks, sends us news tips via the contact form, or just continues visiting, we’d like to say thank you!
25 Comments
Comments Closedrwhiting
August 4, 2014 at 9:42 pmI truly think you guys are responsible one of the best, most professionally run fan sites for any TV show I can think of.
WouldntYouLikeToKnow
August 4, 2014 at 9:54 pmFor anyone who’s interested there’s still a forum with some old members from the Fox forums, who all moved over to this: https://forums.delphiforums.com/KS24
It was basically dead for 4 years but saw a lot of activity while Live Another Day was on the air.
Loving the new design here and all the content. Without 24spoilers, I would have never been able to watch the Season 1 Deleted Scenes and listen to the Season 1 audio commentaries, so thanks for all the great work over the years and for always keeping up-to-date. Keep up the great work!
Gerry Mander
August 4, 2014 at 10:19 pmBrad
August 4, 2014 at 10:44 pmDavidete
August 5, 2014 at 2:27 amJohn
August 5, 2014 at 4:14 amCatherine
August 5, 2014 at 4:17 amShaun Clark
August 5, 2014 at 4:41 amAll we need now is another season to go with the new look, any news yet regarding a season 10?
Keep up the good work with the latest news, this is the only 24 website I go on for my latest news of 24, its really sad that other 24 websites have shut down :(
Kyle
August 5, 2014 at 10:39 amSuperSerb
August 5, 2014 at 5:32 pmBruce
August 5, 2014 at 5:55 pmBruce
August 5, 2014 at 5:56 pmKiki Vanderway
August 5, 2014 at 6:44 pmFor any fan of the show this site in particular has the largest collection of information about additional media related to the show (e.g. cast interviews in print and video, all the promos, DVD specials, and most of the panels) and information about the cast and post-24 information on them as well.
I believe 24 Spoilers has pretty much made it the site anyone can point to for a “how-to” manual on creating a lasting, completely relevant and timeless homage to a show.
24 Spoilers
August 6, 2014 at 3:45 amWe’ll be continuing to add a lot more older stuff (promos, photos, text interviews, video interviews) and also transcribing all of the existing video interviews so that they’re searchable. Lots of cool stuff planned :)
Lady J
August 13, 2014 at 11:33 pm24marathonman
August 5, 2014 at 8:06 pmhttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-24-live-plus-same-day-ratings-20140805-story.html
I think season 10 is more likely with numbers like that.
Tran
August 5, 2014 at 8:26 pmShaun Clark
August 6, 2014 at 1:51 pmhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2014/08/05/will-there-be-more-24-maybe/
TJ
August 8, 2014 at 9:26 pmSo, a big ‘thank you’ to the site creators for devoting your own time and energies towards a project that so many other fans can enjoy and participate in.
Mary
August 13, 2014 at 6:44 pmLady J
August 13, 2014 at 11:39 pm24 Spoilers
August 14, 2014 at 2:53 amIt’s something that is being looked into though.
Lady J
August 15, 2014 at 12:15 amThis will help because Monday nights just aren’t the same right now, and oh mercy when they killed off Audrey I almost committed to never watching “24” ever again and swearing off buying LAD when it comes out on DVD; frankly the jury is still out on that one. I was/still really mad with any and all involved in that nihilistic brain cramp!
Justin
August 14, 2014 at 7:51 pmTJ
August 15, 2014 at 1:10 amI hope like all of us that news comes in the next month or two of a 10th season next year.