Brownstoner's New Look
For those of you just tuning in, we put up a new site design over the weekend. The major change is that we removed the left-hand column and enlarged the size of the editorial column by about 25%. We’ve already gotten an email from Bob Marvin, who may have a year or two on our…
For those of you just tuning in, we put up a new site design over the weekend. The major change is that we removed the left-hand column and enlarged the size of the editorial column by about 25%. We’ve already gotten an email from Bob Marvin, who may have a year or two on our average reader, expressing his pleasure at the fact that he no longer needs a magnifying glass to read the text. We’ve also gotten an email or two from people who don’t like the new look. We’re interested to hear everyone’s feedback. Nothing’s set in stone so please let us know what you like and what you don’t, keeping in mind, of course, that it can take a few days to get used to a new design. (We’re not entirely sold yet on the Arial font – maybe we should go with the font we use on Brooklyn Record.) How many of you remember what the site looked like a year ago?
Update: Vote on which header you prefer by clicking here.
Definitely an improvement — faster and easier to read. Good work.
brownstoner, what about the voting results? come on, I’m hoping 51% of us have ordered you to revert.
but as i said @ 9:35 am, i’ll adjust. maybe change is good.
Nah, this is great. Just what we were hoping for.
See what happens when you ask a bunch of home reno’s, architects, artisits and designers (oh, and other trades, sorry) what they think 😉
Road to hell is paved with good intentions, I hear. Perhaps asking for everyone’s 2 cents may have been more than you wanted to chew or, eh, read.
Good discussion though. GO VERDANA!
i 2nd 5:27 about the forums.
I think they’d be infinitely more valuable and generate more traffic too if they were something like this: http://archinect.com/forum/
where the last post goes to the top, and if you look towards the bottom , you can filter by categories.
also, it would be nice if the “brownstoner” logo would link back to the home page. This redundancy is standard for many sites and is convenient.
i also just noticed that the rollovers on the main navigation menu are too muted. maybe that blue font (on rollover)should be darker or black…
this is minutia but the current font for ‘brownstoner’ logo changed from the one earlier today looks like it needs to be optimized. It is dithering around the sky background and looks like it was scaled down rather than done for that font size.
I also agree on a richer background image.
Looking good…
There were always (okay, for the past several months at least) 2 columns of ads. Probably seemed like less when there was a fourth column with links…