Boston Restaurant Blog -- February, 2008

It is hard to believe, but Boston's Hidden Restaurants site came into existence four years ago. It seems like yesterday that the site had only a handful of restaurants on it, along with some goofy clip art, cheesy advertising banners, buggy pulldown menus, and rather unusual color schemes. The odd colors may still exist, but the site has certainly changed in many ways, and is now one of the biggest restaurant sites in the Northeast, with about one million hits annually and more than 2,000 pages for readers to look at.

As Boston's Hidden Restaurants turns four years old, many changes are coming to the site right now. As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the entire site is slowly being upgraded so that it is handheld-friendly, with simple, easy-to-read pages allowing folks with PDAs or cell phones to be able to enjoy our site while on the road. Another change that we are in the process of doing is making all of the pages on the site as streamlined as possible, so while other sites may have pages that are anywhere from 25 to 100 kilobytes in size, most of our pages will be between 6 and 10 kilobytes, making for faster loads on even the slowest systems (dial-up service, old browsers, old computers, etc.). Finally, we will soon have a brand new section within the site. What will be be? Well, you'll have to come back to find out, so keep checking back over the coming weeks!

Thanks again to all the viewers of Boston's Hidden Restaurants, as well as those who have helped make this site become what it is today. And to those who miss the really bad clip art on the site, maybe we will bring it back someday (but don't hold your breath!).

Posted by MH, Boston's Hidden Restaurants, on February 10, 2008.
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