Website design update
└ posted on Saturday, 21 August 2010, by Novil
I’m sure regular readers will notice the new blue background, but this is just one of the changes I have made to the website design during the last two days. I was getting the impression that the design of the website needs an update to be ready for the next decade, but I also did not want to change the whole layout since I think it works well overall. Instead I made many small changes, including the following ones:
- The transcription of the comic dialog is now inside a small box so that it does no longer look like the transcription is part of the comic description.
- The <blockquote> boxes have a gray background now and a prettier, dashed outline.
- The author and date are now located beneath the comic navigation menu which is also looking slightly different.
- The comment section now also offers a “Reply” button in addition to the “Quote” button. Both buttons are also more easily visible.
- The design of the various widgets on the left and right sidebar has been improved and is now consistent to each other.
- etc.?
Ah … and the advert block right after the 2nd comment. Which first gave me an advert for a big double barbeque sauce hamburger thing. Now I’m hungry!
The changes are good. I do like the new “Reply” button, it will make it a lot easier when one has comments relating to a previous comment – I like the almost outline type format the comments end up in.
I’m very glad you’ve kept the comments section. There are a few web comics that I really like that don’t have a comments section like this. I do miss it. A couple of them do have “forums” but, for the most part, those are more trouble than they’re worth really. I love the immediacy of these comments and the fact that they’re attached directly to the content (ie the strip) the comments are about.
thank you for the music link, the “moonlight sonata” is not one of my favourites, but its a pleasant piece to listen to late in the evening. the squirrel and coyote was amusing too.