Comments on: A New Home

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:44:22 +0000

Cool! Good luck on your new blog,mate :)

By: Abi Raja

Abi Raja — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:17:27 +0000

Folletto, you are spot on. This Wordpress theme is heavily modified from the WPTypo theme (as I mention on the About page) and the only part of the theme that I did not modify much was the comments. I added the Gravatar and that's about it. I was going to focus completely on comments (not just the visual design, but also about how to design for intelligent comments) in another blogpost, that's probably coming in a week or two. But for the time being, I've change it according to your suggestions - it's all Garamond and the comment box is bigger. I agree with (1) too, looks visually odd, will changed it once I figure out how to do it. Thanks for the criticism.

Chris, glad you enjoyed the footer. A blog only has to be readable and yours is, which is good enough.

By: Chris Brakebill

Chris Brakebill — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:32:48 +0000

I like the design. Makes my blog look like a clusterfuck. Also I thoroughly enjoyed the footer

By: Folletto Malefico

Folletto Malefico — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:12:53 +0000

Yes, surely the footer is something strange... but it's an interesting choice. :)

The overall look is very good, and as you point out, it feels before it looks something.

There are just a few parts that you might look again (take this with a grain of salt, it's just nitpicking a good design):

1. the date at the top, on the side of the title, doesn't seem (Fx3.5) aligned well. Maybe you could try to align it to the bottom of the first line, in order to have its height exactly equal to the small-cap letter of the title.

2. The comment boxes uses "Courier" here (Fx3.5 on Mac). It's a bit strange on a serif website (and also the blog title uses a third font...).

3. Maybe you could make the comment box bigger. I'm feeling a bit constrained writing this piece.

I hope this helps. Good work. :)