Comments on: Dear Author Has a New Look

By: stephanie feagan

stephanie feagan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:25:58 +0000

Ah, Jane, you are a wonder. This is just lovely!

By: vanessa jaye

vanessa jaye — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:13:40 +0000

oh, btw, this is why my kid hated asking me to help with his homework. I was like a dog with a bone–just couldn’t walk away…. lol

By: vanessa jaye

vanessa jaye — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:11:46 +0000

Ahh, gotcha. I assumed ‘home page’ was the first page you get when you type the URL into the address bar. In this case, the page with the New Post. But it’s only taking me back to the last main directory/tab I was on.

Not sure if its a big deal. I can hit ‘new post’, no worries. I just thought you’d mentioned fiddling with the link a couple of days ago and that’s what you’d meant for it to do, (plus, for a split second thats exactly what it does–take you back to the New Post page– before flicking back to whatever main directory/last tab you’d been on.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:24:03 +0000

actually, it is taking you back to the home page and the script remembers the last tab you left off on. I could make it so that it doesn’t remember and defaults you back to the first tab – New Post.

The Preview/Post thing is screwed up for me too.

By: vanessa jaye

vanessa jaye — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:22:05 +0000

erm… one last quirk. I was in the archives page, then hit the ’stamp icon’ in the header, thinking it would take me back to the homepage, it did for a split second then reverted back to archives page. I tried again (this time starting in the review page) and it did the same thing. I actually had to hit ‘new posts’ to get back to the homepage.

By: vanessa jaye

vanessa jaye — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:17:55 +0000

I’m going to have to figure out why the site still looks pink at home on the laptop.

Anywho, I noticed that the preview button and post buttons below the comment window aren’t aligned– the ‘post’ button is lower than the ‘preview’ button. It shows the same way on the laptop at home, and on my pc at work, so it’s definitely is something quirky with the site. Otherwise the new look is fabulous. Love it!

By: LinM

LinM — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:13:06 +0000

I really like the new look now (although I don’t see the sage green mentioned in some comments); the fonts, background colour and tab-line all work flawlessly for me.

There are some things that I really like: the compressed links to older and ancillary posts at the bottom of the home page are wonderful; the length of the “recent comments” section is longer again (this had shrunk to about 5 before the redesign and I’m glad to see more entries in the list); the site is now more accessible from my palm.

Since you asked for nitpicks, I’ll approach the absurd – the visible description says that you are 6 devoted readers – the metatags still say 4 (I must confess that I am totally impressed that you updated this from the original 2 – who updates metatags?)

By: MaryK

MaryK — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:41:29 +0000

Not a nit – I’m liking the “recent comments” feature. I can quickly see if anything’s happening in an old post.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:36:47 +0000

Okay, I’ve got the clickable header thing figured out. Now just the cookie. Anything else? I do appreciate the nitpicking because I do want it right and tight.

By: Darlene Marshall

Darlene Marshall — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:47:59 +0000

I like this design. Loads fast, looks sharp.