Comments on: Redesign - whee! http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Fri, 16 May 2008 03:31:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: amy.leblanc http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10969 amy.leblanc Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:56:14 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10969 beautiful! i'm totally into this kind of aesthetic, obvi, as i recently had similar swirlies tattoo'd on my body. i love the color scheme too. 7 years and i've not redesigned my blog, so i live vicariously through you on this one. ;) beautiful! i’m totally into this kind of aesthetic, obvi, as i recently had similar swirlies tattoo’d on my body. i love the color scheme too.
7 years and i’ve not redesigned my blog, so i live vicariously through you on this one. ;)

]]> By: Damien http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10963 Damien Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:55:14 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10963 Fantastic new design! Many many useful and eye-catching sections, details, accents, use of space... The "Don't Make Me Think" voice in my head only has one TINY usability suggestion: The position of the RSS links seems "attached" to the search box, in the place where an "Advanced Search" link might normally be. That plus the ambiguity of the orange-on-orange RSS icon, led me to literally click on the icon wondering if it was a "search THIS or search THAT" modifier. And I'm not NORMALLY an idiot, and I'm sure many of your readers are plenty RSS-savvy, but for those that aren't, this might be confusing. [There are plenty of other places right near there that would work perfectly, like "underneath the Hey There blurb" or, even more appropriately, as part of the "recent comments/articles" section, or somewhere in between...] Great work, and props to the Dodd! Fantastic new design! Many many useful and eye-catching sections, details, accents, use of space…

The “Don’t Make Me Think” voice in my head only has one TINY usability suggestion:

The position of the RSS links seems “attached” to the search box, in the place where an “Advanced Search” link might normally be.

That plus the ambiguity of the orange-on-orange RSS icon, led me to literally click on the icon wondering if it was a “search THIS or search THAT” modifier. And I’m not NORMALLY an idiot, and I’m sure many of your readers are plenty RSS-savvy, but for those that aren’t, this might be confusing.

[There are plenty of other places right near there that would work perfectly, like “underneath the Hey There blurb” or, even more appropriately, as part of the “recent comments/articles” section, or somewhere in between…]

Great work, and props to the Dodd!

]]> By: Ariel http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10958 Ariel Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:04:04 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10958 There's stuff you want to read over there though, Ben -- like my link blog and Google Reader shared items. I'm ok with your eye drifting to the right. There’s stuff you want to read over there though, Ben — like my link blog and Google Reader shared items. I’m ok with your eye drifting to the right.

]]> By: yelahneb http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10956 yelahneb Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:41:21 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10956 i dig it! my one kibitz is the somewhat the same as last time - i think the logo would look better left-justified. as it is, when i look at the main page, my eye is drawn into the "wrong" direction (to the right), away from the posts. but i could probably get used to it over time... i dig it! my one kibitz is the somewhat the same as last time - i think the logo would look better left-justified. as it is, when i look at the main page, my eye is drawn into the “wrong” direction (to the right), away from the posts. but i could probably get used to it over time…

]]> By: Ariel http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10945 Ariel Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:46:12 +0000 http://electrolicious.com/2008/04/redesign-whee#comment-10945 Elli: BWAHAHA! Nice catch on the tagline typo. That's hilarious. Fixed now, but I was tempted to leave it for effect. :) Elli: BWAHAHA! Nice catch on the tagline typo. That’s hilarious. Fixed now, but I was tempted to leave it for effect. :)

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