DETROIT, MICHIGAN | Saturday, September 4th, 2010 | 2:25 AM | 38 buildings and counting...

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Critical Detroit News

Critical Detroit Wishlist

Critical Detroit has come a long way this past year especially since we switched to WordPress. We’re closing in on 13,000 visitors for the year. It’s not much, but more than we’ve ever had in the past. As the year winds down, let me share some things I’d love to get from you. Don’t worry, [...]

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Timeline Working Now – For Everyone

Oops.  Apparently an errant comma was preventing the Timeline page from displaying correctly (or even displaying at all) in Internet Explorer, which over half of our visitors are using. Everything is working now.

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Timeline Coming…

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I just have to share this with you! I’ve been working on a way to represent a timeline of Detroit’s buildings and architects. I think I’m almost there. I have some formating and styling issues to clean up, but at least the model is working. [ Timeline ] Let me know what you think.

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1000 Views of Critical Detroit

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Critical Detroit reached a milestone today – We’ve had 1000 visitors so far to the site since we migrated to WordPress in February 2009! We love it!  It seems that more people are spreading the word about Critical Detroit and we are getting more and more traffic as a result of various search engines. Thanks [...]

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For Your Mobile Viewing Pleasure

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Critical Detroit has just unleashed another new feature just for visitors browsing from a mobile device.  It’s a stripped down version of the website with easier navigation and quick links to our resources. The standard website wasn’t that bad, but it got kind of cumbersome to pan and zoom around the page to read and [...]

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Blog Upgrade

We’ve gone ahead and made some structural and programmatic changes to the website (again)!  We’re now proud users of WordPress and so far we’re loving it.  There is much more control over the format and presentation of our material, not to mention greater support from the user community. There are also several improvements in the [...]

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We Have Feeds

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I know we don’t post often enough here and we’re working hard to bring you new information, but let’s be honest.  It just doesn’t come that often.  We appreciate you stopping by and still want you to, but you can also stay up-to-date with our RSS feed. There’s a link at the top of the [...]

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New Blog Category – Unbuilt Detroit

In honor of this weeks announcement that the @Water Lofts have lost their EDC funding and approval (presumably, this project is dead), we’ve created a new category for our Online Guide called “Unbuilt Detroit.” I’ll admit that the guide is still undergoing massive development so it’s easier to navigate, but the new category is there [...]

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Critical Detroit Update

Things have changed quite a bit around here since I first launched this site back in 2005.  Most of the changes to the site are detailed in the About page at the bottom of every page. There are some things that I did not cover and will be updating that page shortly. How do I [...]

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