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2007-05-08 10:09:01
Hi all

So over the past couple of weeks we've been making some small changes to marvel.com to help you, the loyal browser, navigate it a little better. They're pretty subtle but we hope you'll be able to use them to find the stuff you're looking for. Any links you might have used in the past are still 100% valid.

First of all, we've made it so that you can find any book in the Marvel.com catalog without having to mess around with a pesky id number. For an individual book just type in it's title and issue number exactly as they are spelled on the title (you can use underscores for spaces): Amazing Spider-Man 532, for example (http://www.marvel.com/catalog/amazing_spider-man.532)

If you want to look at an entire run of a book just type the book's title: the late, lamented X-Statix http://www.marvel.com/catalog/x-statix

The catalog only goes back to 2002 (although this will change soon...keep watching this space).

Our comics, movie, and video game pages are now easier to access as well.
http://www.marvel.com/comics/x-men
http://www.marvel.com/movies/ultimate_avengers
http://www.marvel.com/movies/X-Men.X3:_The_Last_Stand

The spaces-for-underscore thing also works for blogs: http://www.marvel.com/blogs/tom_brevoort

Hopefully this'll help you link and find stuff easier.

have fun,
pete



omg
That's so awesome!

Posted by meestercheeser on 2006-09-19 19:09:52
WONDERFUL
CAn't tell you how wonderful this change is!! What took you so long?

Posted by Gayxman on 2006-09-21 12:19:13
Great job
Thanks for simplifying things, Pete. It helps a lot! Whom should I e-mail to say you deserve a raise?

Posted by Jeffers on 2006-09-26 10:47:59
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