Comments on: Redesign in progress

By: A List Apart: Articles: The Case for Content Strategy—Motown Style

A List Apart: Articles: The Case for Content Strategy—Motown Style — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:18:50 +0000

[...] After a quantitative headcount and qualitative review, the content strategist can help you and your client better understand what you have, and what they’ll need to revise or create. Voilà: You’ve got raw material for your sitemap and wireframes! Moreover, a qualitative content audit can help reveal what new content types you should aggregate—think video, blog posts, and testimonials. A content strategist can help you figure out what makes sense with that shiny new design. To steal a page from Eat Media’s Ian Alexander, “it just makes sense to design from the content out.” [...]

By: Redesigned – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

Redesigned – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:38:24 +0000

[...] more about it here, here, there, and elsewhere. (Don’t freak out; these old posts are now in the new layout, [...]

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SuniPeyk tumblr — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:27:19 +0000

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By: hakki kekilli

hakki kekilli — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:20:46 +0000

I love this. I love the way you put it out there. I love the design. I love how you came up with it.

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Zeldman zeldman.com’u yeniden tasarlıyor Sunipeyk — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:14:39 +0000

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By: Billee D.

Billee D. — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:09:45 +0000

Nice. I love the bigger, chunkier look. The colors do make me feel all nostalgic too. :-)

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:41:01 +0000

Please do some more tweaking.

That made me smile. Do whatever you want Jeffrey – it’s your site.

How about changing that anti-spam question; it’s not design-related, but I’m bored of typing ‘hot’ all the time :)

By: michael

michael — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:31:52 +0000

I know it’s not done but the bottom of your drop cap is cut off in IE 7 on Win XP Pro. I suppose it could be a stylistic choice but looking at the code it doesn’t seem like it to me. I’m not the greatest with CSS though so I could be wrong.

By: Lace

Lace — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:30:35 +0000

Hmmm. When I look away, I see blue….

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:28:35 +0000

The orange is bad. But its just a single css rule.

I hope, very strongly, that you somehow keep the cool pictures at the top of the current pages. They are the second best thing about your blog.

By: Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:49:35 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful feedback, friends. For those who find the orange background objectionable, I'll probably offer a user-selectable alternate color scheme, such as the one in this quick (code) sketch. (Ignore the color of the printer's mark at the top. Final colors subject to change.)

By: Tanny O'Haley

Tanny O'Haley — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:20:52 +0000

The footer and content are beautifully done. I’m looking forward to the header. I like the not white background of the content in contrast with the strong orange. It’s easier to read than your 2003 design.

I notice that in 2003 the font size was 11px, the current design uses 13px and the new design is using 15px. As someone in his 50′s I appreciate the larger font size.

By: Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:15:12 +0000

Your grid doesn’t work either as the footer does not align with anything. Please do some more tweaking.

Oh, the grid works just fine, Klaas.

By: Klaas

Klaas — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:10:33 +0000

I’m sorry but the orange is hideous. You can’t read the text without getting a headache. Your grid doesn’t work either as the footer does not align with anything. Please do some more tweaking.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:48:21 +0000

Looks like a nice start.

I’ve been very interested in typography, a web topic that continues to gain momentum, and debate. Between pixels, ems, percents, keywords, and points, each has its own following of developers who swear by their particular choice of font sizing. I noticed in your CSS there seems to be a combination of all (except points). Any rhyme or reason? I’ve been tempted to use strictly ems but with modern browsers switching to page zooming rather than text resizing and IE6 on its way out, I’m not so sure leaving pixels is still worth it.