I have been scrubbing through my old maze sections and improving them recently. I previously updated: Halloween Mazes, Christmas Mazes, Animal Mazes, Food Mazes , Arrow Mazes and Snowflake Mazes. Here are some additional changes I made that you may have noticed, with some before and after’s when applicable:
Sign Mazes have been consolidated
I had over 20 sign mazes on the site, many of them were early “maze of the week” mazes. They do not get much traffic. I combined them into a new section, Sign Mazes, initially in the Past Mazes section of the site. This consolidated the website down. Some of the big sign mazes you’ll find here include the Hollywood Sign, Welcome to Las Vegas Sign and Welcome to Colorado Sign.
Moved around some maze homes
Much like the sign mazes, it was time to consolidate the sites main maze pages down. At the time of this writing I changed the home page from 52 mazes down to 25. These 25 are the most looked at mazes on the site and some of the best IMO. The past mazes section went from 45 mazes down to 25 mazes. People still search for these mazes but they are less popular. Each of these 2 pages will now load faster with significantly less mazes !
The archive maze section expanded from 29 mazes to now having 54. There are some nice mazes in here but they are rarely searched for or clicked on so they remain on the site in this purgatory state. I considered calling it the purgatory page but archive won out.
Laberintos
My Spanish Language sections are doing well so I brought back the Laberintos section to house all of the different sections. I am expanding the Spanish language books as we speak and adding new mazes in Spanish.
Spanish Language Maze books
I added 13 new books in Spanish to the site. 400+ new mazes, more than doubling the amount of books on the site in Spanish. I have ideas for more…
La Catrina Maze
I adjusted the pathway/cut widths to make solving more enjoyable, then made the arrows slightly smaller so I could increase the size of the skull on the page. I also added the comic book versions to the La Catrina Maze Page. This maze gets traffic in October, early November and I gave it more attention.
New Map Mazes
I changed the Europe Map Maze book, and added new versions of the mazes in native languages. I added mazes of each state of Mexico in Spanish, with a book also available in English. I also did mazes of each of the provinces and territories in Canada, with a new book !
New Books
The free printable book section has expanded by 8 books. Hope you enjoy them ! I also revised the majority of the older books to be more black and white printer friendly. A few even got expanded with new mazes.
New maze details
Based on some research I have done, I have started adding new details to the bottom of each maze page. I do a couple pages a day and it will take me a few months to finish (I am starting in the archive maze section). So far I am adding these 8 details: Title; Artist; Style; Tags; Format; License; Paper Size; File Size.
I have long list of additional changes to get to, but this is what I have done so far.
Happy maze-ing !