Slight design change

By Oli on Thursday, 21st September 2006. More information. Comments.

Regular visitors may have noticed a slight change to the design =) I've expanded the design a lot and that 1% of people using 800*600 are going to have to get friendly with the scroll bars if they want to navigate. It's not something I wanted to do, but the old width (although that was too

Regular visitors may have noticed a slight change to the design =)

I've expanded the design a lot and that 1% of people using 800*600 are going to have to get friendly with the scroll bars if they want to navigate. It's not something I wanted to do, but the old width (although that was too wide for you too) was still too constrictive. You may have noticed that there are a couple more adverts on the site. This is just to raise funds to make sure the bills can be paid. There is also a new search feature (thank's google).

I said at the end of last week that I was moments away from publishing the new report on what slows windows down. I've had it in a more-or-less finished state for a few days but I got an email the other day that's making me sit on it. Symantec, having read my study, are a little concerned that the figures I've been publishing do not represent their latest and greatest product, so I'm busy talking with their PR people and they're going to get me a copy of Norton Internet Security 2007 to review. When I've done that test and added it onto the report I'm sitting on, I'll publish that here.

Really, I'd like your feedback over what you think about this design. Even if you're a new visitor, you can still play. The old design looked like this.

I gave Steve of Seopher.com a preview look at the site design before it was released and unless I'm very much mistaken, I think he's blogged about some of my adsense advert placements ='(

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Written by Oli on Thursday, 21 September 2006. Tagged with news, design. Read 1997 times. If you liked it, please give it a digg.

#1 /* 3 years, 10 months ago */
Critique: I think it's always too busy to have two vertical columns side-by-side, especially when the color scheme is neutral and links are the same color. It all just blends together too much. Second, a vast majority of sites use the upper-left for the primary site navigation so sticking the adsense words up there and putting your primary navigation links all the way on the right is tough - it makes it very difficult to at-a-glance grasp what your website offers.

I do like the colors, though! That's nice, and yeah - no sense at all in designing for the 800x600 crowd. Most everyone who would understand the things you write about are way past those days. Nice logo, too.

Lastly, maybe the kittenauth image in the upper-right could link to a KA article? You've already got the primary banner linking to the homepage....
#2 — Author comment /* 3 years, 10 months ago */
>> I think it's always too busy to have two vertical columns side-by-side, especially when the color scheme is neutral and links are the same color.

I agree but there's too much content to have in one column and I want to keep them together so that I can merge them further down the page.

I'm going to play around with some backgrounds for the bar to try and make the elements a bit more distinguished.


>> Lastly, maybe the kittenauth image in the upper-right could link to a KA article?

Whoops! Good catch!
#3 /* 3 years, 9 months ago */
My blog wasn't about *your* adsense placement, but our conversation on possible placements.

New design still needs some Scriptaculous =)

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