Comments on: New blog design – what do you think?

By: Martin Koser

Martin Koser — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:49:09 +0000

Matthias, mit dem Logo hast du natürlich recht – aber diesen kleinen Ungehorsam leiste ich mir mit dem Design. Die Rechtsbündigkeit leitet so auch schlüssig zur Sidebar, die ich jetzt – dank dir – ein bissele verbreitert habe.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:30:37 +0000

Das Logo muss oben links stehen, als erster Blickfänger für das Auge. Unser Auge sucht intuitiv erst links nach einem visuellen Anker und nicht ganz rechts außen. Ansonsten würde ich nur noch die Spaltenbreite verschieben. Das Textfeld ist etwas zu breit in der Relation zur Sidebar.

By: Martin Koser

Martin Koser — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:03:41 +0000

Thanks Megan for the kind feedback, I hope that now I have narrowed down the design to something that makes sense and looks decent.

PS. you’re speaking German OR you’re very polite. Both reasons rock

By: Megan Murray

Megan Murray — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:02:14 +0000

Martin,
I like it. Nice and clean & not too densely packed. Looks great on my 10″ ThinkPad screen (in FFX). Thanks for the pointer to the Buzz WP plugin. Hadn’t thought to add that to my blog.
Danke!

By: Martin Koser

Martin Koser — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:16 +0000

Xavier,

very good point – now I have cut down on the number of items presented and I might even install a simpler single-post view (but I need to find out about this a little bit …).

Indeed I wanted to keep it simple and clean (really ..) – and I might even reduce it back to one sidebar. Who needs all this syndicated tumblr/delicious/other blog links after all

By: Barthox

Barthox — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:46:55 +0000

Same as Jack … nice, clean, but a bit overwehlming in the information that is proposed …

By: Martin Koser

Martin Koser — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:44:50 +0000

Jack – thanks a lot for your feedback. I will give it a try to widen up the layout, right now I try to cater for the unhappy folks without a widescreen, ie. I stay at 1000px

And yes, I should write more imn English, but be assured that most of the things in German are of local relevance only, feel free to apply a robust filter.

That said it’s a good idea to translate at least some of the meatier posts into English too.

Cheers,
Martin

By: Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:27:51 +0000

The look is nice and clean. The content column should be wider, in my opinion – from Firefox is looks like ~half the width is taken over by sidebars. And the links in the sidebars don’t have obvious hyperlinks (until you mouseover). Looks like a lot of text – particularly the parts in German that I can’t read.