TBLWrestling.com Renovated
August 25, 2008

To Our Valued Readers,

TBLWrestling.com is pleased to announce a new, more user-friendly design! This design is based off of the WordPress database system and will allow for greater malleability in giving you the best in online wrestling.

One of the major components of this new design is/was moving 10,000+ pages of wrestling content from our old URL (thebalrogslair.com) to our new URL (tblwrestling.com). As you browse through the site, you may encounter a few dead-end links in some of the more obscure areas of TBLWrestling.com. Do not fear! None of our content is lost – it is simply a matter of transferring it all to the new URL.

Also, in this design you will find more access to older news items and columns. Please feel free to use the integrated search bar at the top of the site to find what you are looking for – or go on hunt through the TBLWrestling.com database!

Please let me know if you have any feedback as you browse through the new site. Enjoy!

Be well,
Joe, TBL Owner
joe1897 [at] gmail [dot] com

Call for Link Exchanges
May 22, 2007

To Our Valued Readers & Fellow Website Owners,

We hope that you are enjoying your time at TBLWrestling.com. Due to some unforeseen free time that came my way, I was able to perform many maintenance updates on the site over the last few days.

One of these maintenance updates was the elimination of dead link exchanges – hence the reason for this announcement. TBLWrestling.com is now welcoming all link exchanges from all of your professional wrestling & non-professional wrestling websites!

We would like to re-create the feeling of inter-website support that existed over a decade ago with this “Link Exchange” page. You can access this page by clicking here. Please contact me directly at the e-mail address below if you would like to exchange links with TBLWrestling.com.

Thank you and please continue to enjoy TBLWrestling.com!

Be well,
Joe, TBL Owner
joe1897 [at] gmail [dot] com

No More Pop-Ups!
For your pleasure
December 21, 2006

To Our Valued Readers,

This e-mail is to inform you that http://www.tblwrestling.com and http://www.xheadlines.com are now pop-up free!

Keep a close eye on these sites over the next few days and weeks as a new team is preparing to take over at XHeadlines.com and Eddie and I prepare some great updates for TBLWrestling.com

And, as always, let us know what you’d like to see on these sites!

A very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to all of you!

Be well,

Joe, TBL Owner

joe1897 [at] gmail [dot] com

Welcome to the new TBLWrestling.com!

Entire site redesigned
August 21, 2006

Friends,

Welcome to the new TBLWrestling.com! In a redesign that has literally taken the TBL Staff months to complete, the entire whole of this site has been redeveloped with a new, sleeker, updated look.

Please, if you find any inaccuracies in the code or if the site does not load properly for you – let us know! As with any new design, there are undoubtedly a few kinks that will arise and need to be worked out. We thank you in advance for helping us with this monumental project.

I learned some things doing the redesign of TBL. First, this site has nearly 5000 pages of content. I repeat. This site has nearly FIVE THOUSAND PAGES OF CONTENT! Folks, you will not find that anywhere else on the internet, period.

Second, I re-learned that we have a truly dedicated Webmaster in Eddie. Throughout the entire redesign process, Eddie checked the layout of the new site and offered comments in YOUR name. That’s right – you had a worthy advocate in the planning of this redesign in our own Webmaster, Eddie.

Finally, I learned that this site is still an internet original. I started The Balrog’s Lair over a decade ago as a little personal webpage where I could put up some thoughts. To see it as a leader and a consistent innovater over ten years later means a lot to me…and I have you great fans to thank for it. You mean a lot to me.

A few things about the new site before I go. You’ll notice that the new index page is ad-free. That’s our way of saying thank you for continuing to come to TBL. You’ll also notice that we will begin referring to the site as TBLWrestling.com and not The Balrog’s Lair. This is a marketing decision that we made in hopes of bringing new visitors to the site. We think it’ll be successful.

There are also more opportunities for you to get involved on the site as we’ve created a “Top Story Poll” accessible on the front page of the site and an internal poll on the rest of the pages of the site. We’re working on doing something about the forums – we don’t want to bring them back unless they are as great as they once were.

And before I really end this, I just want to point out that we’ve tried to move the advertisements to a less in-your-face place on the internal website design. Just another way that we wanted to say “thank you” for all of the years of loyalty that you’ve given us. Thank you!

Best,

Joe, TBL Owner

joe1897 [at] gmail [dot] com