ArcadeCab gets a long-overdue refresh
I finally spent some serious time updating ArcadeCab again. The site has been online for more than twenty years, and while I still like the old projects and the history behind them, a number of pages were showing their age—especially on a phone.
The goal has not been to turn ArcadeCab into a completely different site. I want to keep the original projects, photos and writing while making everything easier to use today.
- Cabinet Plans 2 received a major cleanup, better mobile formatting and an updated high-resolution printable PDF.
- The Home, Projects and Visitor's Cabs pages were rebuilt with cleaner responsive layouts.
- The About ArcadeCab, FAQs and Links pages were rewritten and modernized.
- Dead and outdated links were cleaned up where practical, while useful historical material was retained and identified as such.
- The old ArcadeCab Store has been converted into a Store Archive. The controllers are no longer for sale, but I am still proud of what I built and wanted the products, pictures and original specifications preserved.
- A sitemap and robots.txt were added/updated to give search engines a much cleaner view of the site.
- And, finally, the News section itself is being reorganized so that more than twenty years of old updates remain available without making the current News page one enormous document.
There will undoubtedly still be old pages and old links scattered around the site. That is partly inevitable on a site this old, but the major sections are now considerably easier to browse again.