This Website Gets Smaller

Peter Rukavina

Continuing the dance of procrastination this week, this website sports a new, lean look today.

Fringe benefits: site loads faster, site can be viewed on anything from a modern web browser, to a cell phone, to a 1978 Ford F100 pickup truck. And there’s a lot less to distract the eye from the body copy. A lot less.

There are still some rough edges around the periphery; these should be addressed by the end of the day.

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Submitted by Andrew Chisholm on

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The old site rules, bring it back… But keep this one too… For thous of us who might wanna read your site over a cell phone or a dial up connection.


I hope I did not sound really straight forward and rude… If I did I’m sorry.

Submitted by Jevon on

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I like this one (Your designs of old were great too).

But I guess I even like my own temp-designed blog. Which sports a “hot” red stripe at the top. ;)

Submitted by Stephen DesRoches on

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Wow, talk about surprise when I hit the site today. Not sure how to respond with first impressions but as an overall, I like the new site. It’s right to the point, what the users come to see. My only issue would be the lack of navigation.

I don’t miss the yellow at all although I didn’t mind the previous site either. Yellow was always the first thing that came to my mind when I though of reinvented.

Submitted by Oliver Baker on

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I’ll have to reflect on how the austere look affects my experience. Meanwhile, how it affects my browser (Netscape

Submitted by Peter Rukavina on

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Oliver: Netscape should work much better now (spacing more sane, and logo in its full glory). Yellow-lovers: too much yellow can drive you crazy. Jevon: double-posting is now harder.

Submitted by Oliver Baker on

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Indeedy, all seems well through my Netscape glasses. Meanwhile, I promised my deeper thoughts (such as they are) and they are as follows: I liked the old page, which being more elaborate had the advantage of enabling more Rukavinian stylishnesses, but I like the new spare look too, and I think it’s better for your content. The look before was more “magazine,” while the look now is more “wire service”—and feels more temporal and dynamic. The old look had more of a billboard quality.

Submitted by Oliver Baker on

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That said, I think the old design was better for promoting your company (“About Reinvented”, and your bio page). When you tell ‘em you’re into simplicity and iconoclasm, I presume you don’t want them to conclude you’re opposed to icons and color all together, which it seems they might.

Submitted by Wayne on

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Jevon…Superior intellect always requires a good challenge,n’est pas? In future, I will try to make everybody’s life a little better and avoid the refresh button. I wish all our problems were as petty…

Submitted by Peter Rukavina on

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I wouldn’t be entirely satisfied if I hadn’t offended Jakob Nielsen in some way.

Submitted by Jevon on

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I agree, and a mailto here and there is a fine way of doing it. ;)

The other solution, when allowing communication between users (when no profile exists) is to bring the user to a mailer form. Which would not be entierly expected either.

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