We Got A Face Lift!

March 3, 2008 at 2:18 am in Announcements

I’ve been awake an absolute stupid amount of time the last 4 days getting this in working order (in fact it’s been something in one stage of development or another for almost a year) so I’ll keep this announcement brief. New sites, we has them. There is a lot for me to show off but I’m exhausted so it’ll have to wait for later this week. While we finish migrating things there’s going to be a bunch of weird things happening on the site and things breaking and not working as expected. Please hang in there and all should be running much smoother in a few days. In the meantime, hope you like the new look!

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http://funinlife.wordpress.com/ asmamirza

Awesome.

I’ve yet to see Islamabad :-)
joann

CONGRATULATIONS! The word hardly seems appropriate, knowing SOME of what you went through to birth this baby!
http://melbourne.metblogs.com/2008/03/04/the-new-site/ The New Site | The Melbourne Metblog

[...] to the redesigned site. After many months of hard work by Jason & Sean, the new redesign is finished. Other than the frontend look, we have switched from the very very [...]
http://www.superluckycat.com bromike666

w00t, first post on new site. Do I get a prize?
frazgo

Yeah…looks good, will be really nice once the little buggy bits are fixed!
mackreed

55 sites worldwide = late hours by the launch crew and more hours this morning, but we’re squashin’ buggy bits at a good clip. Thanks for yr patience!
http://carversdog.wordpress.com/ rodger

Looks good, Sean. It’ll take some getting used to as I’m so accustomed to the old presentation …
Oren

Congratulations on the face lift. How do I make the text font bigger? It’s so tiny!
http://lahore.metblogs.com/2008/03/04/fresh-from-the-lab/ Fresh from the lab | The Lahore Metblog

[...] brand spanking new look of LMB. Jason and Sean gave Metroblogging a face lift and unvelied the new look a little while ago. Well if you ask me, i really like the new changes, [...]
gregc

very nicely done. congrats.
teck

So this is why my RSS feed broke… lulz, looks great btw. I love the way I have to register to comment now
gilded

I have always loved the metblogs, berlin and la are my favorites. But the font size is just a joke. This is a deal breaker, write some easy css stuff or figure out that not everyone uses Windows, so we can read it without changing the browser setting for one site. I really can’t emphasize enough HOW BAD the READABILITY is on the new site.
http://eecue.com Dave Bullock / eecue

Congrats! The font side is hard to read. Running Safari on a Leopard.

=]
http://www.rumorsdaily.com/ RumorsDaily

We need accounts in order to comment, eh?

Well, I hope this speeds up the amount of time it takes for a comment to post. Let’s see.

Oh, the addition of a follow comments by email button! I like that.
http://www.rumorsdaily.com/ RumorsDaily

Way faster! Big improvement! Good job.
doran

Looking good so far. I’ll save any quibbles until later.
http://eecue.com Dave Bullock / eecue

I’m sure you already know this but:

* old images don’t work currently

* the links to the comment profiles don’t work

* links to old author profiles no longer work

* rss feed doesn’t work

* font is really small [design feature?]
http://seanbonner.com Sean Bonner

yep, know about and working on all of that.
http://tokyofarm.com Spencer Cross

You all know you have control over the size of the type in your web browser, right? If you’re on Safari, you can increase/decrease the size of the type with Command +/-
http://eecue.com Dave Bullock / eecue

Of course we know that… but having to do it every time we land on the site is a pain in the butt.
fullgl

For the love of god! Change the size of the header image. Site takes up waaaay too much real estate on a 13″ Macbook. Not friendly to the Mac environment where the page should only take up as much of the screen as the content. I hate having to scroll sideways let along having the scrollbar at the bottom.
http://www.TheBusBench.com bustard

While I have to agree that the header is overly large (it fails to fit on my 14.1″ iBook) and there appears to be a problem with being redirected to the Metblogs dashboard when I log in to post a comment (despite my directing the site as well as my machine to “remember me”), the graphic design of the banner, logo and attendant art is brilliant. A great modern motif, Sean and Co.
http://loteriachicana.net cindylu

I like the switch to WP and the new look.
http://www.rumorsdaily.com/ RumorsDaily

I would vote for a narrower width in general, if we get to vote.
http://frazgomeanders.blogspot.com/ frazgo

IT’s hard to read in windows XP with IE7.0…just saying its not OS or browser, maybe the default font size needs to go up a bit or make it hard black for better contrast and readability?
http://islamabad.metblogs.com/2008/03/04/metroblogging-experience/ Metroblogging Experience | The Islamabad Metblog

[...] About the new look, LA says. [...]
gesiku

love the new layout… just PLEASE increase the typeface size! I’m clearly not the only one asking for this. It’s not *terribly* too small, it’s just small enough that it makes one uncomfortable reading it in large blocks and for any length of time. Good design=good readability, not just prettiness.

If I up the font size on my browser than I’m forced to decrease it anytime I visit another site. That’s not cool.
teck

Seriously, the Font size sucks, at least make it a big bigger all we are asking for is for a .5 increase, is that too much to ask? Oh and the RSS feed, please think of the children and fix the rss feed :’(
http://www.TheBusBench.com bustard

Perhaps changing the typeface, if the size is to remain the same. I would suggest Bell Centennial, as it works easily in the phone book (for which it were expressly conceived).
Otherwise, please do use a larger font.

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