As is apparently a growing trend, I’ve redesigned the blog. I suppose it looks kind of drastic, but I believe in drastic my design, you know?
It was about a year with the last design, so I stripped it, slapped on a pre-built theme in the hopes that would motivate me, and what do you know, it worked. There isn’t anything too different fundamentally in the design — I didn’t fix what I thought wasn’t broken, but I did remove all the series-based categories and will be probably converting those to tags for the next 8 years.
Anyhoo… not a lot to say. Comments still need some work, and I’m sure I’ll find a couple other things as well, so bear with me, but… what do you think? Better? Worse? Don’t care?
Much better, IMO. I love teh sleekness.
Quite nice. I like it.
Shamefully pink. I like it.
Seriously it does look fairly sleek and hightechular with the header contrast, the girl, and the subtle yet visible banners on the right side (pimping all your alternate incarnations).
So, uh, GJ~
Ooooh, looks so hawt! Your comment text field is a few columns too wide, but other than that, everything looks great (even your 9rules link, lol). I agree with CCY that your other squares on the side are very helpful, and pink is a totally underrated accent color.
What everyone else said. So I’ll add to it with an emote: d(“d)
Yeah, really slick and stylish (I’m envious!). Two votes for cutting this comments box back by a few pixels, but otherwise everything else looks fine, in Firefox at least.
If you’re worried about the categories/tags thing, there’s a category-to-tag converter lurking in the WP dashboard menu somewhere where you can select a number of them to convert in one go…it can convert them in the opposite direction too iirc, but I’ve never tried that.
I just noticed that on the front page, the link to the comments is not correctly formed. It goes to sos.com/#commentblock instead of sos.com/poststuff#comment block. The comment links work correctly on the single pages.
YES! I really thought you’d go for pink without me mentioning it and you did! Shameful! ^_^
Thanks everyone for the good words!
@Kabitzin – thanks for the tips. Bungled comments link is now fixed.
@Martin – I wish someone could have told me that before I deleted the relevant categories. This is why you ask questions instead of just plowing ahead, right? Oh well, that’ll learn me…
Looks great, is that Helvetica I see before me?
I like the new sleek design, it’s much better than what I can do with web design at this point. I mean I can draw things reasonably well but I can’t really code.
The girl is good too, not too moe, kinda serious. Like you.
Clean, I like it