Comments on: Let me know what you think

By: Alex Beamish

Alex Beamish — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:45:44 +0000

I read your blog via RSS (yay Google Reader), so I normally get just the text. So this time I did pop by to have a look at the design. It seems to missing a visual element — there’s no top, there’s just white stuff in the middle and gray on both sides.

If it were my blog (like I’d be able to write something every day — ha!) or even my web page, I’d make the top portion light blue to frame the content. To me, that would be ‘minimalist’ design — I think the current design is less than minimalist.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:12:33 +0000

Thanks, Mike — that’s what I thought too.

And thanks to everyone for all the helpful comments. I’m going to add a “theme switcher” to the sidebar so everyone can choose whichever theme they like :-)

By: Mike Allan

Mike Allan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:18:29 +0000

I liked the old “cutline”, but this new lorem epsom is perfect for you. I think it brings your persona to the forefront, you are a newspaperman writing a blog, and this design reinforces that to me.

By: Mich

Mich — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:09:59 +0000

The ads and feeds seem sporadic, making it look busy. So much so, that everything on the right is a blur. *On the main page, with 5 or so entries, it’s less noticeable. But once you click ‘more’ and go to one entry per page, it kills it.

I’m wondering if you could tweak everything on the right so it’s either sectioned somehow, or uses smaller fonts, the same font, or similar colors â€“ something to help those guys sink in the background yet seem organized. [Maybe you could kill some of the features by adopting a ‘quick links’ column and calling it a day.

Also, I’d rather see ‘recent posts’ than ‘recent comments’ at the tip top. I care more about what you write than what others say. Especially when I’m on your site.

Best,

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:16 +0000

ditto the “meh, I read it in Google Reader” :)