{"id":2852,"date":"2009-11-10T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:39:42","slug":"a-kinder-gentler-look-to-macsales-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/2852-a-kinder-gentler-look-to-macsales-com\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kinder, Gentler Look To Macsales.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2855\" title=\"larry-n-globey\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/larry-n-globey.png\" alt=\"larry-n-globey\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" \/>Creating <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/\">a new homepage look<\/a> can either be met with cheers or yawns depending on how personally invested you are in the site. We get pretty excited here about many products and often can&#8217;t help ourselves from &#8220;getting our geek on&#8221; and wanting to tell you about all the cool stuff we carry&#8230;whether it be our own <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/Search\/Search.cfm?Ntk=Primary&amp;Ns=P_Popularity|1&amp;Ne=8050&amp;N=4294967255&amp;Ntt=OWC\">OWC branded<\/a> products, <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/NewerTech\">the products from NewerTech<\/a> for which we are an exclusive distributor, or <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/specials\/\">a great deal<\/a> on one of the many other leading brand names in our over 2,500 item on-line catalog.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that might be a bit much and overwhelm you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k9B_6PH4dhU\">like a kid in a candy store<\/a>, we redesigned macsales.com homepage to have a kinder, gentler look. 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