Comments on: FG Late Night Redesign

By: JC

JC — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:40:58 +0000

that wouldn’t affect the files included in the page, which is the issue with CSS based redesigns when you don’t change the name of the CSS file.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:14:17 +0000

as far as refreshing half a dozen times, any address with a query string breaks cache

so… http://forevergeek.com/forever_geek/fg_late_night_redesign.php?noPlaceLike=localhost

would bust every item in cache first time around…

By: JC

JC — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:11:30 +0000

The search box doesn’t display at all in IE. Might want to fix that.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 05:52:18 +0000

Ummm, how did I kill it? Works for me.

By: JC

JC — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:08:13 +0000

you killed the search box : (

By: Brian Behrend

Brian Behrend — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:30:08 +0000

The thing I just realized, this site and John Gruber’s may be literally the only 2 weblogs that I read that doesn’t have some sort shade of white as the main content area’s bg. Most use actual white, while some like Zeldman just a really light shade of their basic color.

It’s a nice change of pace and overall I like the design, but I really think for a content/text-heavy site a light background with dark text is easier to read. Maybe it’s just me.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:38:52 +0000

Any suggestions on adding character? I have ideas, but my ears are always open.

By: Jason Marble

Jason Marble — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:32:06 +0000

I love it. Never really did like the last design much, but it did have character as some people have mentioned.

So, I’ld probly throw in some more detail. Give this design a little more character. Throw in some obscurities that only us geeks would probly notice.

I love the color tone. It feels nice. But maybe try using some other colors to accentuate things a little bit.

But mainly, I think it’s just missing a little character. Well done though.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:31:21 +0000

I actually did start with a new stylesheet, but at 2am I got lazy. Sorry about that.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:04:40 +0000

Next time you redesign, paul… use a new CSS file name… it’ll stop us poor souls in corporate environments from having to refresh the page a half dozen times to convince the proxy server to give up its old copy. :-)
Ditto for any logo changes

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:43:41 +0000

I like that it’s more open as well as cleaner. It’s still pretty dark, but definitely better.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:20:34 +0000

And yes there are some more graphical changes (eg. icons and such) coming.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:18:28 +0000

Glad to see the mixed reactions to this one, means you peeps care about the site. Really I was being greedy and needed something that was easier to read for myself :-)

I know it has less of the crazy, cluttered geek appeal, but I think it works better on so many other levels than the previous design. Oh well, that’s what you get for 5 hours of late night work with some beers.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:36:53 +0000

FREEDOM!!!

That last design was too cramped for my tastes.

By: Brendan Avery

Brendan Avery — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:07:46 +0000

Love the new design. Much easier to read and navigate. Plus is just very attractive. Also I can open it up at work now without feeling like people looking over my shoulder think I’m looking at a video-game website. Hurray! Great job!

By: Lea

Lea — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:57:40 +0000

Looks sweet. Reminds me a bit of Daring Fireball, which is nice. I like how much cleaner it looks.

The only thing I’m kind of having a problem with is how large the FG logo is. It’s a tad distracting.

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:32:13 +0000

Paul-

I think this one trumps the last one by a good margin. Nice work!

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:27:39 +0000

In my opinion the old design was better. I do not visit the site very often nor am I a subscriber to the feed, but the old design just looked more like “geek”.

By: Iolaire McFadden

Iolaire McFadden — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:21:53 +0000

Thanks, this is much easier to read. Though I can not picture the design before last in my mind, but I feel like it is similar as in being plain and less distracting in reading.

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:19:23 +0000

Good job Scrivs. I have found an odd thing happening with the menu on Safari 1.2.3 on OSX 10.3.5.

When I mouseover store, and the dropdown comes out, after i mouseout of it, the right hand side (about 15-20px) is still showing until i either scroll down and back up, or resize the window.

Just an FYI

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:49:38 +0000

Nice job Paul, especially the look of the active tab. This makes me so glad I blog here as well ;-)

By: Barbutti

Barbutti — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:40:28 +0000

It’s just like Derek and David said, it’s not as unique as the old one but it’s pretty and I like it. Don’t know which one I prefer though…

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:32:38 +0000

Found your site today via blogcatalog and I’ll def be back for more. !! Keep up the good work

By: David Hund

David Hund — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:24:57 +0000

Sweet, but standard… :-(

I like this design better, from a ‘user perspective’. I like this design less, from a ‘design perspective’.

It is very ‘you’, but (imho) a little bit too much: “Daring Fireball_Whitespace++”

Not dorky enough to be nerdy.

But again: reads fine, navigates fine. As usual :-)

I suppose the new advertising (no Google_ads, the ‘sponsored boxes’) is going to be in here somewhere?

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:22:43 +0000

I liked the old one a whole lot better. :( It had much more personality and was a lot more unique.