Introducing the New Mos Maiorum Website
I’ve just finished upgrading the Mos Maiorum site (http://www.mosmaiorum.org) and I hope you’ll all drop by to have a look!
The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen
The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen
I’ve just finished upgrading the Mos Maiorum site (http://www.mosmaiorum.org) and I hope you’ll all drop by to have a look!
Hrafnkell Haraldsson is the author of A Heathen’s Day, which since 2005 has addressed the life and thoughts of a modern day Heathen. He is also the founder of the Mos Maiorum Foundation (www.mosmaiorum.org) which is dedicated to the study and support of Paganism as ethnic religion and writes for PoliticusUSA (www.politicususa.com) 
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Very nice! Certainly makes the articles a bit easier to read. The font/page colors for the last incarnation were a bit hard on my eyes. I think the only thing that surprised me was the embedded music, and nowhere to mute it. But, that’s just my issue, overall it looks great!
I’m glad you like it. I agree about the previous incarnation of the site. It was my first real website project and I fiddled quite a bit with the original template so it had little in common with how it started. The choice of colors was, I agree, hard on the eyes.
Sorry the music surprised you! I made it intentionally short so that it would stop after a minute or so (not sure it goes on that long even) rather than endlessly repeating. If it seems to be a problem with more people I might consider a control for it but I didn’t want to interrupt the design to put one on there.
Let me know if you discover any errors, typos, misspellings, that sort of thing. I tried to proof it but on a site that large I probably missed something. I did catch a few errors before I uploaded it.
If you have an article or a post of yours that you’d like me to host there let me know. I want to get as many different viewpoints as possible about aspects of Pagan religions (this is an open invitation to everybody).
I can’t pay anybody but I’m happy to host it and give credit where credit is due. I will also include links back to your blogs or sites if desired.
So, I dropped by to have a look!
Impressive, indeed! The site has a very professional look and is easily accessible. Speaking of accessibility, are the forums for members only or general public use? The reason I ask is that, even though a member (not a regular poster, though), I was not asked for a password, like on the original site. Is that because it’s a “once logged on-always logged on” thing or has the area been brought into the public domain?
LOL…the music…as munin_and_hugin said, so for me! Even though it seemed an appropriate genre (?), I’m glad it was short as I found it took my concentration away from reading!…I think it should be there as it adds a dramatic element although perhaps a bit shorter! In Frith, Stu.
Stu, glad you liked it! I haven’t made any changes to the Forums as far as accessibility so it could be your browser is set to keep you logged in…I know when I go I always have to sign in – I did as recently as yesterday.
I made an adjustment to the music. I lowered the volume from 5 to 3 to see if that helps. The piece that plays is only .30 seconds long in any event. If it annoys too many people I will have to look into shortening it or removing it altogether. Honestly, I thought it added to the “atmosphere”!
Another option would be to add a console but that would detract from the appearance of the site (where to put it?) and it’s hardly worth it for .30 seconds of music.
I appreciate the feedback and if you discover any typos or any other problems with the site let me know so I can fix it.