ON SITE DESIGN CHANGE

TIME FOR A CHANGE

No need to change your PC screen dials.  I've changed the template for the site to make it hopefully easier on the eyes.  Very minimalist for now, more tweaks likely to follow. 

Any feedback/suggestions would be welcome.  Thanks.

Comments

[mano]

A heavier type font would be easier to read

[brian]

Thanks, white type on black is painful.

[Michael Parekh]

Thanks...how's this font?

[rkv]

Thanks for the change, I don't have to read your blog using RSS feed only any more. Also curious to know what else you have done to make the page load faster, before it used to take a while before the pages loaded in Firefox

[Michael Parekh]

Not sure...I think going from a custom to a standard template might have helped. Also, I'm in the process of cleaning up the stuff in the sidebar.

thanks again for the feedback.

[Warner Crocker]

I like the changes.

[Pete Cashmore]

Much better!

[Brian Phipps]

The new look is certainly much easier on the eyes than the old white on black. To my eyes, though, the new design could use less leading (space between the lines), so the paragraphs are more dense. Right now (for me) there is too much general white space in the background, and that detracts from the rich idea fabric of the blog.

I subscribe to your blog via bloglines, and I guess in some sense your native blog competes with the super-dense bloglines rendition of your blog. I'm partial to the "more data density" approach, because it seems to bring out the relationships between concepts, links, context, etc. "at a glance," so it's easier to glean the big picture from a post.

[Michael Parekh]

Brian,

thanks for the feedback...I'd made the fonts larger on the basis of other feedback, and it does reduce the density of the data on the page. I'll tinker with it to see if I can find a better balance.

Thanks again.

[rkv]

Looks like the third column(right sidebar) is the culprit, it takes a while to load in Firefox and freezing the browser for few seconds