Comments on: DTW’s new look

By: jud

jud — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:49:34 +0000

Billfer nice work,,,,,,can you Catch or play SS

By: Kevin in Austin (now Dallas)

Kevin in Austin (now Dallas) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:01:40 +0000

Billfer – I love the update. Nice work. I’m not sure about the pics, I kind of like the mystery of what lies beneath. I’m sure I’ll come around.

By: Joel in Seattle

Joel in Seattle — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:24:55 +0000

Then turn down the brightness on your screen VTFan

By: vtfanmv5

vtfanmv5 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:24:37 +0000

The new layout/textures are great, but the white burns my eyes.

By: Ravi in MI

Ravi in MI — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:43:27 +0000

The new look is excellent. Thanks for a great site!

By: jason

jason — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:08:13 +0000

hmmm.

Testing to find out what happens if I don’t set an avatar.

By: Dre in Chi

Dre in Chi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:07:46 +0000

i like the new look, seems to keep all the things i liked about the old, while looking nicer.

By: Chris in Dallas

Chris in Dallas — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:50:38 +0000

I want to be the millionth customer. Do I get a prize if I am? Seriously, though, I’ve become accustomed to the new look now. I just have to get one of those fancy picture thingys next to my name. Thanks for hosting this site, billfer. It’s a good one.

By: billfer

billfer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:18:59 +0000

A couple other things I neglected to mention in terms of new look and functionality, I now have a large image library at my disposal thanks to my partnership with Yardbarker (they’re the ones who serve up the ads at the top and bottom of the page and the news story widget) so you’ll start to see more pictures and the like popping up in posts.

Also DTW will be hosting it’s one millionth visitor sometime in the next 2-3 days. I’ll pop a counter up higher in the sidebar. This is more exciting for me than many of you I’m sure. Not far behind will be the 2 millionth page view served up.

By: billfer

billfer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:15:36 +0000

@loon

Most of the credit for the type and spacing goes to the folks at Thesis. I guess I get credit for staying out the way for the most part.

As for the search box, that was always available in the navbar.

By: billfer

billfer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:52:42 +0000

@david -

I have it set except only G rated gravatars. There is a description on the gravatar site about how images should be rated. Thanks for asking.

By: Joel in Seattle

Joel in Seattle — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:55:40 +0000

Snazzy. Nice work, the site looks great.

By: David

David — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:20:51 +0000

Hey Bill

New look is nice, different but nice

As far as avatars go…what would be a no-no?

I like certain photos but not sure if they are…

By: Smoking Loon

Smoking Loon — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:09:06 +0000

I like it so far, except that I think the code needs to be rewritten to always place Vince’s posts under mine, so that it looks like I’m always beating him to what he was going to say.

Is the Search feature new, or was I just blind to it before? It’s cool, in any case. Already too many neat little things to comment on, so I’ll mention just two: The elegant typeface on the Archives, Recent Comments, etc. headers, and the way the comment box is gray before you click into it and goes gray when you’ve clicked out of it.

It’s kinda like it was before, only more so. Relatively uncluttered, not framed and boxed and line-chopped to death. The content is not overwhelmed by the graphic elements. The design facilitates reading. What a concept!

FWIW, I’m viewing the site with Safari 3.2 on a Mac running OS 10.4.11.

By: Vince in MN

Vince in MN — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:28:35 +0000

Hey Billfer, it looks great; cleaner and sharper. As far as version numbers, how about DTW.2009?