So, I’ve started in on the site redesign, which will involve shifting to the WordPress content management system. I still have a lot of work to do in terms of creating new logo art, tweaking the colors, etcetera, etcetera. But the basic layout I’m planning to go with is here if folk have thoughts/advice/cries of horror.
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February 15th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Tags: Administrativa
9 responses so far ↓
1 LP // Feb 15, 2008 at 12:31 pm
A nice, clean look — I’m glad you’re losing the dotted line motif. But you need some color, my friend, color!
2 Joseph // Feb 15, 2008 at 1:06 pm
The quick links on the right hand side are hard to read.
3 Liz // Feb 15, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Dude, how do you get the cool little facebook banner thingy on your about page??? (I also can’t figure out how people get their del.ic.ious & flickr feeds on their sidebars. Perhaps I am beyond help).
4 Other Ezra // Feb 15, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I advise against italicizing your block quotes. Slightly smaller font and shorter line height should set them off enough–along with the line.
5 Lee // Feb 15, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Good job. It’s just a little too plain, maybe. It’d be just right, I think, if you chose a subtle color scheme for your banner text and your hyperlinks.
Also, I agree with Other Ezra about the blockquotes: no italics, please.
6 Adam // Feb 15, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Looks good. There’s something slightly funky going on with the HTML WordPress is generating, though. A lot of the line breaks are created using <br> tags rather than <p> tags. Aside from enraging HTML geeks, this is affecting some of the spacing around blockquotes and paragraphs. Not a huge deal, but perhaps fairly easy to fix.
7 stephen // Feb 15, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Minimal. Chic. I like it.
8 diakron // Feb 15, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I think it sort of looks like The Onion without ads.
9 Vee // Feb 21, 2008 at 10:37 am
Definitely a more sophisticated look, but maybe evokes a little ennui. I’m probably a bit biased though, I find the current layout kind of charming.