13 Responses for "New Design Live!"

1. Joe Lencioni

   March 5th, 2007 at 6:19 pm

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   I think the new design is a huge improvement and WordPress rocks. Way to go! Good luck ironing out the rest of the kinks.

2. Alexander

   March 5th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

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   i like it. the search button is a bit “off the line” in firefox/mac.

3. Lissy

   March 5th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

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   think it loads a bit faster too

4. Aesqe

   March 5th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

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   It definitely loads faster than the previous version, I like the design, but I’m not sure about the logo, maybe a different font would work better. All in all - good job :)

5. Marco (Griffith) Jardim

   March 5th, 2007 at 7:08 pm

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   As one of the oldest editors here I have to admit that this is a bit “sad”. Not that I’m disappointed with the design, but it’s just that it’s completely different from the previous ones. This new image is very fresh, very web 2.0, and I think that we should all congratulate Elena (from Design Disease) for doing her “magic” once again.

   I’m a critique at heart, so there are certainly some little things I would change, as would any other that looked at this page (there was already a commentary regarding the logo’s color), but in the end, I don’t think I would change that many things. As a whole, I think that it fits together very well.

   I think that we should just enjoy the design as it is: as a breath of fresh air to a relatively “old” design style.

   We might have lost a bit of the serious “geeky look” that the old design had, but instead we gained a more mainstream presentation without breaking the previous content or the readability. And I think that most of our readers will appreciate it.

   Thank you for your commentaries, and I hope that you’ll remain with us as we continue to deliver the best quality content we can find.

6. MrCam

   March 5th, 2007 at 11:22 pm

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   I think it looks great! i hope there is more great upgrades to keep the geeks informed.

7. Jake

   March 6th, 2007 at 2:36 am

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   I thought I went to the wrong page when I clicked on my bookmark. x.x

   Nice job! I like it.

8. jangelo

   March 6th, 2007 at 4:23 am

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   I like the new design! I’ve always had some issues with the old design and the use of MT back when I was still an editor here. I hope it would be easier for writers to now focus more on content rather than having to tweak entries just so things would appear ok once published).

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   March 6th, 2007 at 4:33 am

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10. Matt Wilcox

    March 6th, 2007 at 5:14 am

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    Nice, well done! I like the simplicity and stylishness of the new design, kudos.

    I have one minor criticism though, which is the google ad that’s stuffed in under the post header and above the post text - it’s not boxed out, and it’s rather confusing. My first thought was that the page was broken (it isn’t). Now, fair play - it gets the ad read, but it certainly confused me as it felt like body copy when it isn’t.

11. doughnut

    March 6th, 2007 at 6:25 am

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    The new design looks great! Of course, I would have gone with drupal. ;)

    Please, keep up the good work that we’ve come to expect from Fg :)

12. xen ix

    March 6th, 2007 at 8:35 am

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    Seems like I’m not the only one updating my design.

    Very nice. I like it a lot. The old design was kind of boring, “old” and cold. Keep up the good work.

13. shadowblast63

    March 6th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

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    not the best you guys could do