Comments on: New Site Design

By: Joel G Goodman

Joel G Goodman — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:38:00 +0000

Yeah below the fold doesn’t matter unless your a newspaper. I like the updated nav. Looks better. And white space is GOOD. I like it.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:38:28 +0000

thanks dude.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:37:29 +0000

i usually don’t care about below the fold stuff on web, which i thought may have been kind of a bad thing, but this article says otherwise.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:35:38 +0000

i think i’ll be adding some animation on hovers, i like that idea. and some subtle texture on the navbar would probably be good.

thanks for the suggestions.

By: Kristoffer

Kristoffer — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:55:40 +0000

One thing that I think would spruce the design up a little is some animation on hovers (The submit buttons, rss, and your link icons up at the top).
How would the navigation bar look with a little bit of texture?

Also, the forms are a bit confusing (I can’t see the text areas in chrome), but it sounds like you already have that on your agenda.

Also, I like the bread crumb bar, the little rook is a nice touch.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:41:22 +0000

It all looks nice. My general impression is that there’s a lot of whitespace (or fleur-de-lis’d space… whatever you want to call it), which results in the design being pretty spread out. If someone is using 1024×768 or lower, I think everything but the header and about the top half of your post title is below the fold.

The comment and contact forms are a little strange to me. The fact that the text boxes aren’t distinguished from the background makes the functionality less than obvious. (They show up in Safari when selected (because of the blue glow), but remain non-visible in Firefox except for the cursor.)

It actually seems to translate fairly well to mobile Safari (except for its inability to display English Towne).

By: Nathan Bender

Nathan Bender — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:47:32 +0000

This is sooooooo not plain english…please revise.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:34:55 +0000

thanks for the feedback. i’ll look more into it later.

i can say i was worried about the forms. and fear i may have to change them.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:33:47 +0000

ha… i don’t think i will. at least not now. thanks for checking it out and leaving a comment!