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Welcome to the Re-Design

by John Cole|  July 19, 20051:41 am| 34 Comments

This post is in: Previous Site Maintenance

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The site re-design is, for now, done.

A few quick things- don’t change your bookmarks or blog roll, things will catch up in a few days. Also, permalinks to previous posts in the archives will be screwy until things settle down.

New features:

site scales to fit window

wider center column

new feeds located in the lower right (RSS 2.0, .92, and ATOM- I will add feedburner and other stuff in the future)

an option to open links in a new window, as well as an option to resize the font on the whole page (scroll down to the lower right below the feeds)

banner is now a hyper-link to the main page (except, inexplicably, in IE- working on that)

inline comments (with buttons, click the little arrow to drop the button bars)

title of post is the permalink

comments can be permalinked

commenter name appears before comment

if you insert more than three hyperlinks in a comment, it will not work (for site protections against spam)

And there is more I am sure I am missing. Over the next few days, there will be some comments lost here and there, some confusion, but all of this should sort out by the weekend. Much thanks to the anonymous folks who helped (did) this redesign.

If you have anything that needs to be addressed, please let me know in the comments.

If you hate the site, I would rather not hear about it.

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34Comments

  1. 1.

    McMartin

    July 19, 2005 at 2:24 am

    Hmm. I don’t know if it needs to be addressed, but the bullets in the bullet list there are rendering outside of the box. Slightly wacky.

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    Backword Dave

    July 19, 2005 at 6:13 am

    Cool.

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    Backword Dave

    July 19, 2005 at 6:14 am

    PS. A link back to the home page would be appreciated, but it’s still cool.

  4. 4.

    jr

    July 19, 2005 at 7:22 am

    The new design looks great

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    Brian J.

    July 19, 2005 at 7:38 am

    The bullets for the bulleted list in this post appear outside the border of the center column in Firefox.

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    NYCmoderate

    July 19, 2005 at 7:42 am

    It looks terrific! Clean, easy to read, scalable main column. If only we could get Sullivan to change to something more like yours. In case it helps, my RSS feed has already switched over, without my having to do anything.

    My one slightly negative comment is that while the main column is perfectly sized, the blogroll is comparatively tiny. I’m on Mac OS 10.3.9. I’ll be curious to see if I can access the site at work now. You’re currently blocked by our, ahem, site filter.

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    Halffasthero

    July 19, 2005 at 8:52 am

    An online magazine with no “Letters to the Editor”?

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    Jill

    July 19, 2005 at 9:24 am

    Sorry, great content, but the new design looks amateurish compared to the old look. Also, takes forever to load up, the old site used to load instantly.

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    Rick Lee

    July 19, 2005 at 9:25 am

    Wow… what an improvement, visually. You still need a new logo though.

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    Rick Lee

    July 19, 2005 at 9:26 am

    err… by logo, I mean the balloon and “barker”. The title logo is great.

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    John Cole

    July 19, 2005 at 9:35 am

    Dunno why the load time is slow- I switched to Hosting Matters, and it loads in no time for me. Weird.

    Sorry you don’t like the look, but a lot of people were really having a hard time reading the site. I loved the old look, but something had to give.

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    JKC

    July 19, 2005 at 9:48 am

    Nice job, John. Looks good.

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    ppGaz

    July 19, 2005 at 9:57 am

    I like it.

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    vianna

    July 19, 2005 at 10:12 am

    Can now read without my halfsies! Very good!

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    bg

    July 19, 2005 at 10:15 am

    Love the new look. Very clean, easy to read.

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    Mr Furious

    July 19, 2005 at 10:32 am

    Looks great. Much better. Take my word for it as a graphic designer. My only constructive design criticism would be to beef up (make bold?) the headline text. The entries are clearly defined by the boxes, but they could use a bit more oomph to stand out.

    Loads fine for me on a Mac in Safari–no problems.

    One technical note–once I’ve added a comment, it doesn’t have a clear link back to the main page. I suggest adding a link at the top labeled “home” or “main” or at least have clicking the Balloon Juice banner take you back.

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    John Cole

    July 19, 2005 at 10:42 am

    Mr. Furious- The hyeprlinked banner appears in Firefox, but not in IE for some reason.

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    Mr Furious

    July 19, 2005 at 10:43 am

    Oh, and I miss the comment preview.

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    Mr Furious

    July 19, 2005 at 10:48 am

    I’m using Safari right now, and it doesn’t work.

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    p.lukasiak

    July 19, 2005 at 10:57 am

    A “preview” option would be helpful….

  21. 21.

    John Cole

    July 19, 2005 at 11:02 am

    I will check into it.

  22. 22.

    Anderson

    July 19, 2005 at 11:12 am

    Congrats on the site redesign!

    My only suggestion would be to make the main text a *little* smaller, maybe by just one point? It’s pretty huge right now, tho I’m sure that’s to most people’s liking.

  23. 23.

    Catfish N. Cod

    July 19, 2005 at 12:06 pm

    You’ve removed the lnks to your email and IM. Is that intentional?

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    John Cole

    July 19, 2005 at 12:26 pm

    No. I will add it.

  25. 25.

    Wrye

    July 19, 2005 at 12:52 pm

    The text is a bit large, but I guess there’s no happy medium. Definitely big and bold. And the scaling works like a charm.

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    arnott

    July 19, 2005 at 1:22 pm

    nice and clean

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    prob

    July 19, 2005 at 1:31 pm

    looks great to me. Like the larger print – much easier to read. Agree with arnott…very clean presentation…

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    Christie S.

    July 19, 2005 at 1:40 pm

    Looks good, John. Very easy to read. I like the larger text as I’m visually challenged (damned near blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other)and really appreciate not having to wipe the screen of nose prints every day.

    I’d like to see the return of the comment preview, though.

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    Mason

    July 19, 2005 at 2:26 pm

    Looking good. No visual flaws at all in Opera.

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    Nikki

    July 19, 2005 at 2:41 pm

    Love the new look! The only thing I would change is with the buttons: some people may not know that Strong=bold and em=italics. You might want to change those button titles if you can. Otherwise, looks great!

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    Mr Furious

    July 19, 2005 at 3:07 pm

    The banner link back to the main page now works in Safari.

  32. 32.

    scs

    July 19, 2005 at 3:12 pm

    Why change it? I liked the old look much better. Its like my MSN messenger, everytime they make me down the new one, I always think the old one was better. Old one had a no -nonsense practical look about it, this looks more like any other old blog. Plus don’t like how you have to go back and forth now from comments to main page. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it John!

  33. 33.

    Reid

    July 19, 2005 at 7:07 pm

    It needs more cow bell.

    However, pay no attentiuon to me, as no redesign will please everyone. Especially those who are resistant to all change.

  34. 34.

    Stormy70

    July 19, 2005 at 8:53 pm

    How do I get the comments to remember my info, some site’s say remember info? Do I have to type my name and email each comment? What if I need to tell someone off quicker, and I have to waste time typing my info? The world might end.

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