And that's how you design blogs and similar sites. Put the content in the spotlight and shove everything else away.
A List Apart 5.0
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#12Looks like a wannabe version of the 37signals blog redesign. White background, overly large text, no aside, author at the bottom, etc.
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#13I was just thinking recently how amazingly not-outdated A List Apart's design looked, despite it being really quite old.
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#14Oh, it's that Grey Period [1] all over again...
I loved the previous design [2]. It only used 2 fonts (and default ones, for that matter): Georgia and Arial. But it didn't feel 'cheap'. The font-size, letter-spacing, small-caps, weight and style variations provided a versatile set of text layout.
The spacing and colors were perfect too, and yielded a well-thought and pleasant visual hierarchy. It is one of the few websites I enjoyed reading directly from the website (instead of using Google Reader or Instapaper).
I'm sure many hours of work are behind that new design. And maybe it's the same for any redesign: I'll get used to it. But I'm not thrilled. We'll see.
[1]: http://jgthms.com/the-grey-period.html [2]: http://alistapart.com/d//368/jsm.png
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#15I was just thinking recently how amazingly not-outdated A List Apart's design looked, despite it being really quite old.
Felt exactly the same. I visited the website yesterday and thought "This design has been around for years and it still feels fresh".
There was nothing to change about it, but I guess this redesign didn't happen just for the sake of following the "grey" trend.
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#16Looks like they need a better web server to go with that redesign
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#17And that's how you design blogs and similar sites. Put the content in the spotlight and shove everything else away.
But they are not putting content in the spotlight, they are putting unreadable letter bottoms and empty space in the spotlight, the content is shoved away to somewhere far down. Maybe the design works on a tablet in portrait mode, but not on a laptop screen. To see more the four lines of content there, you have to scroll.
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#18I am using Chrome on Windows 7. The menu bar on the top of the page cuts off the title and the bottom of the page slightly cuts off the * FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE WEBSITES. Is that the way it should look?
http://imageshack.us/a/img228/8256/alat.png
I see the same thing. I have a hard time believing it is intentional, but even so, I think it looks sloppy.
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#19I am using Chrome on Windows 7. The menu bar on the top of the page cuts off the title and the bottom of the page slightly cuts off the * FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE WEBSITES. Is that the way it should look?
It is so distracting that I can't even be on this site anymore.
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#20I am using Chrome on Windows 7. The menu bar on the top of the page cuts off the title and the bottom of the page slightly cuts off the * FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE WEBSITES. Is that the way it should look?
it's intentional and is a normal design aesthetic/style especially in typographically designers mind.