You may have noticed that English Advantage looks a bit different. I've decided to change around the format and the color scheme to take advantage of lots of new toys that are available these days. I hope it gives a little more functionality to your English Advantage experience.

First, If you look at the top of the sidebar, you'll see along with links to my other pages, and buttons to subscribe to my feed or the Share This button to submit my sites to Stumble, Digg, a button to print out pages. This widget lets you choose which posts to print and does away with the sidebar and other distractions so you get just the text. Below that, you can save some paper by emailing the page to yourself or downloading any page as a PDF file. It's really cool and I'm glad to have that function now. You'll also notice a print icon at the bottom of every post to print directly from the post page.

Below that are the badges which may be of interest to fellow bloggers, like my Entrecard and the who.among.us which gives you statistical information on this blog. My Alexa rank and Feedjit map, I moved to the footer because it's really only sponsors and bloggers who want to know that stuff.

I also added a nicer looking Google Translate widget and a Dictionary widget that searchens Dictionary.com or Wikkipedia or other sites for any word. So if my high-faluting language confuses you, just look it up [highfalutin: Informal Pompous or pretentious according to the widget]. Below that there's some navigation for finding posts by label, by popularity or by date. There's also a cool little English test thing; I didn't write it, but I really like it.

And then the usual links and blogroll and all that. Always happy to add any ESL or university related site, so let me know if you want to trade links.

There are a couple of ugly things going on. Right now Blogger is being weird and I can't update my template to work on those, but hopefully sometime this week I can get that all sorted out.

If you have any comments or critiques let me know. I usually shy away from busy layouts with lots of toys. I hate blogs that look crowded or distract me from the main text with buttons and badges, but I think the additions here are really useful.