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- 08/04/07
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The site gets its annual design update.
The upgrade went fairly well, as these things go. If you are still seeing the old site or are seeing a messy hybrid, trying hitting “Refresh” in your browser a couple of times. That should clear things up.
Whenever I change the look of the site I am always asked why (and tend to receive plenty of negative feedback as well!). There are a few reasons for this upgrade. As I explained a little while ago, there are three main ones: a) I am easily bored with my designs, b) the sites serves, in part, as a gateway to my web design company and it is important to keep it looking fresh or c) the nature of the site changes a bit over time and there is something I wish to emphasize that cannot easily be done with the current design. All of these reasons have come together this time. Especially, though, I’ve had to prepare for the lead-up to the book, knowing that I’ll need to make the book available through the site and begin to “promote” it in some way. I think the new design lends itself to that task a little better. I am also considering integrating my company site with the blog.
The new design offers some new features that were also integral to the decision to switch. For example, I’ve now added tags to posts and this should serve as a good way of tying posts together and of quickly categorizing them. I’ve also added more features for those of you who use various social media and who wish to interact with the content a little more. And I’ve transitioned to a better system of URLs (search engine friendly, for those who care). Finally, I’m preparing the site for the release of the new version of Movabletype, my blogging software, and think the new features and new design will work best with that new software.
Anyways, work continues. I’ll continue to find and weed out problems as they occur today. Please continue to be patient with me!
7:06 AM - Today is the day I’m going to be moving to a whole new design for this blog. So please bear with me as, for the next couple of hours at least, things could be a little flaky around here. Images may not work for a while, formatting will be strange, and so on. So hang tight and I’ll post when things are returning to normal.
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Comments (66)
Thanks for the good work. I visit daily and appreciate your discernment. You are a gift to the church.
Tim, I’m a person who resists change (I sulked about your last site upgrade until I finally forgot what the previous design was like) but I LOVE this new look.
Apart from being gorgeous, it loads in a fraction of the time your last design did. I too, would read your site every day even if it looked like Notebook … but thanks for spoiling us.
PS. I’ve just discovered the little comment boxes that pop up as you fill in your comment. Coolies.
Looks great! (See, not all of your readers hate it!)
I love the new look Tim! I usually use my AOL browser but I still get the messy hybrid through AOL.. but using Explorer I see it perfectly! Looks great! Thanks!
Tim, the tree is great…but it does look almost dead. Maybe add a few green leaves to show “life/reforming” or something.
The resolution issue I was referring to most likely is due to DPI settings on some laptops, not the screen resolution/size.
It is a difficult trick to make the “submit” button go dead after the first comment click? I like AddThis - a cool feature we are using as well.
Tim,
I like the new design and it looks great in Firefox 2.0.0.6 on XP.
However, there is one issue with the design. When a sidebar is open in Firefox, such as the Sage RSS reader or Bookmarks, the margin between the left border of the page and the text goes to zero pixels. In other words, the text goes right up to the edge of the sidebar. It’s a minor issue and it’s probably a problem with Firefox, but I thought I would let you know.
In the previous version, I’d have to wait for several seconds before the text appears.The site loads a lot faster now (or is it FasterFox? that’s making it faster?). I use Firefox.
It is a difficult trick to make the “submit” button go dead after the first comment click?
Nope. Just a bit of Javascript.
The site loads a lot faster now (or is it FasterFox? that’s making it faster?). I use Firefox.
Yeah, the new design is faster. It has fewer graphics and no Flash…
Tim, the tree is great…but it does look almost dead. Maybe add a few green leaves to show “life/reforming” or something.
Not a bad idea but I don’t know that I’ve got the graphic wherewithal to pull it off.
Tim: Don’t know if you’ve heard from other AOL users, but the redesign looks terrible in this perspective.
Refreshing several times does nothing to improve it.
Tim: Don’t know if you’ve heard from other AOL users, but the redesign looks terrible in this perspective.
Any chance you could send me a screenshot or something? I’m not sure what AOL users are seeing—whether it’s something I’ve done wrong or whether it’s AOL’s fault.
Beautiful and much faster! Great work!
I’ll try. I’m not the world’s most knowledgable computer user.
The new format looks terrific on my mac! I had all kinds of problems before viewing using the latest rev of firefox on my new laptop macbook but “I can see clearly now”!Thanks!
I loved the old javascript “going up” links you had. The animation was pretty nice.
I loved the old javascript “going up” links you had. The animation was pretty nice.
I liked it too. However, it came with a bit of overhead (your computer had to load a fairly sizable javascript to make it work) so I just let it go…
I think it looks great…much faster too.
As for the tree…hmmm…looks a little like the dead of winter. How about a tree in all four seasons of LIFE? But, I was a huge fan of all your nature pictures in the header from a long time ago. I sure miss those a lot!