This should be obvious if you’re viewing the site at our home base, but for those reading via a feed or aggregator somewhere, things are looking a little bit different around here today. We’ll be rolling out further features of the new site design over the coming days, but the bare bones are now in place – they’ll be tweaked as we find out just what works and just what doesn’t, but I think the new four-column layout is a change for the better. I’m excited to be moving into the new place and hope you are too – if there’s anything you’d like to see changed, added or removed, comments and questions are welcome! (no more)
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Looks interesting- more busy then I am used to for this site but that is not a bad thing at all- to me.
Good Luck with the new place/site Shingo!
Getting kinda cramped :S
Well at least everything is still legible.
>>Work Ethic
Thanks! A certain degree of “busy-ness” is inevitable in this sort of expansion, I think, but I’ll be trying to keep it as manageable as possible as we adjust things.
>>Kev
I agree, the new sidebar does look pretty cramped. I’ll see if something can be done about that, it should be possible to make the text more immediately readable. I’ll be using shorter post titles, for one, which should help some.
Agreeing with Kev.
Everything looks and feels a bit too cramped now. There’s a lot of empty space under the newsfeeds too, but everything is legible so it’s not all bad.
Definitely too much empty space under the feeds. Trying to figure out what to do with it other than expand the stuff above… It’s nice to have that space to throw around, but I don’t want to just randomly waste it.
Do you think the “cramped” feeling would be relieved by making the layout a bit wider (or at least the new column)?
Wow where is Demo-tan going to go?
The website is getting quite wide…
>>EvoSpace
I’m not quite sure what to do with Demo-tan at this point… She’s on a vacation right now to get a makeover and move away from her Lucky Star-inspired look. I’m not quite sure what she’ll look like when she gets back. ^^;
I like the busy look. And the new miniaturised sidebars on the right looks good to me. Then again, I’m used to cramped screens (looking at my brokers’ stock trading websites everyday)
Oh–it did change… I guess my screen is large enough so that I don’t really notice a difference.
It’s great to try out this 4 columns format, although this looks quite busy. Probably changing the fonts and spacing things out more will do the trick.
For the homepage, the page gets pretty long and requires lots of scrolling up and down. May be it’s better to shorten the news section in the middle to 15 listed items, so you won’t have that much empty space under the feeds too.
Another suggestion for the Links and Archives sections, may be they can make into a drop-down menu instead of listing all the links there.
The new setup works for me. ^^ Good luck in getting everything working! ガンバ！
At first blush, I gotta say I like it. Very much. We’ll see how I feel about it later on, but so far, so good.
@Shingo: I think the “cramped” feeling just comes from the new column taking a large chunk of the main article section.
Maybe it would be possible to narrow the new column and fit the news in a slightly narrower space and push the points down to fill the space?