This time, one year ago, Purely Top TV was founded on the ideal that access to streaming TV shouldn’t involve wading through masses of Popups and extremely fast blinking ads, and that you should have open access to a stream, without having to fill out pages of “Surveys” or “Offers”. And here we are today, still going strong.
To celebrate our birthday, we have undergone alot of recoding of the site to make it faster, cleaner, and more accessible then ever. This is really only the start of our transformation, and we are definitely looking towards a more community feel. With outsiders coming in and adding embed links, or even links to their own site. We are a bit off that just now, but we are striving to reach that goal.
Here is a quick list of what changes are being released today :
Cub3r Flash News
The front page now contains a small Flash box/cube that has our latest news on it. We found that people aren’t interested in big long pieces of text, and they quickly want to read the headlines and move on. Well, you can quickly flick through the latest news, and then move on to watch your shows.
Latest Additions
The front page also contains (on the left hand side) a box that has our latest additions. So you can immediately come just to the homepage, and see if your shows have been put up yet.
TV Schedule
While still in its infancy, this is quite a handy feature. To the right of our “Latest Additions” is a quick TV Schedule which will tell you which shows are on which day. In the future we are hoping to move this to its own page, and let you guys know when shows “Skip a week” as they often do etc.
Top Shows
Shown along the bottom of the homepage, this lists the top 5 shows with the most views this week. We are hoping to eventually show stats over time, which how shows are rising or lowering in popularity. But for now its handy to find a hot new show to watch.
New View URL’s
Although most of you hardly will notice. We used to have () or “brackets” in our URL’s to shows. In the brackets were our season and episode numbers. But brackets often seem to break querys, or break URL’s when places on things like twitter or facebook. So we have changed them to / instead. For the most part you don’t need to worry, because all old URL’s will still be redirected to the new ones.
Extra Links
Below every episode will be a list of “Extra Links”. These links will be to other websites that also contain embeds of the episode. For the most part, its to try and please everyone. While Megavideo does have pretty good quality, it does have a time limit which peeve alot of people off. So we will try and link to many different sources to give you guys the choice. Do note that there aren’t many extra links up at the moment just due to us spending all our time developing the site. But over time the list will grow bigger and bigger for each show.
There is a bunch more things in the works that we are building, and even a few extra things that are already on the site that you will eventually figure out for yourself. There will be a few issues with the new site as it goes up and over the first week or so. I mean, we can only do so much testing! But we are looking to keep building PTTV bigger and better.
