Comments on: Site Maintenance Warning

By: SFBoi

SFBoi — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:21:51 +0000

Yeah, that is true, but some people like to browse the web in a window smaller than their full monitor resolution. My monitor has a resolution of 1680 x 1050, but I browse the web in a window sized for 1024. It is just a simple web standard, and making the vast majority of your user's scroll is just absolutely annoying, especially considering there is no actual function for the scrolling.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:13:59 +0000

Ads are one thing. They can be blocked. But the width is an absolut no go. Really liked the old design…

By: JustinDickinson

JustinDickinson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:28:03 +0000

We're living in the future, bump your resolution up past 1024. Even CRTs can rock 1280.

By: Slapstick

Slapstick — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:23:08 +0000

JD dude.. u shud have kept everything within 1024 px man ( err.. 960px techincally) .. There are a lot of peopel still out t here with good ol CRT's.. and keep the font-size big i like that, but decrease the line-height its little stressful to eyes .. ADS? No problemo.. I have Ad Block Plus

By: Wingman

Wingman — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:19:01 +0000

I too vote for the middle blog. That way you can slap us in the face with ads on both sides. With the other stuff way over on the far right, my eye doesn't even come close to seeing that. As I read this post, and you mentioned stuff about buying dvds on amazon, I didn't even realize that was there.

By: clearwater

clearwater — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:14:50 +0000

I like the new layout. Hope you're making buckets of cash through more ads, JD (sadly unlikely, unless they are miniature buckets)!

BTW, I clicked on the "new to the site" thing which I'd never noticed before and stumbled upon those Season vs. Season evaluations, which are pretty cool. I don't fault you for stopping them, though, that must've been really time consuming.

By: JustinDickinson

JustinDickinson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:57:04 +0000

The blog area is the same width it was in the old site, 500px. I didn't change it so all the images would still fit.

The ads should be contextual. They're new so give Google a few days to index my content and serve up better ads.

By: Ike

Ike — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:48:04 +0000

I don't mind the blog on the left, but it's a bit narrow. With the margins it's less than half the page. I don't mind ads, just wish they were to awesome things not something that sounds like a scam.

By: JustinDickinson

JustinDickinson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:27:19 +0000

Blogs are dead. The web is moving forward. It's not enough anymore to just have a blog, the design has to be progressive.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:02:12 +0000

Um… Hi… I meant having it to the left, and can you move it to the right…. wow. My brain isn't working correctly today.