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(Late) Spring Cleaning

I made a few tweaks to NoahBrier.com

November 28, 2007 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS

For those of you reading this at NoahBrier.com you'll note things look fairly different around here. For those of you who get the RSS feed a) you'll have noticed a whole bunch of new entries pop up and b) click over to the homepage and check it out.

Anyway, I wanted to give a little explanation for what's going on:

  1. I wanted a new look. The other one had been around for about a year and a half and I was getting bored. If you miss it, you can still see it on every page other than the homepage, where I haven't gotten around to switching things over yet.
  2. I have changed the "sidenotes" thing. Lately I've been pretty busy and haven't been able to blog as much as I would like. However, that doesn't mean I haven't had lots of ideas and done a bunch of reading. The old format, which was just a straight feed from my del.icio.us, wasn't really doing the trick. So the idea for this new format is to do short posts, mostly around links and other assorted stuff, kind of like those links roundup I do every so often. The other big decision was to include them in the main RSS feed. I don't plan to post them that often, so I hope it won't get to overwhelming, but if it does I'll go back to the old version.
  3. I really wanted to better integrate the email subscription mechanism (now in the header).
  4. I really wanted a print and email buttons (now attached to each post . . . don't love the solution for email, but I'll keep working on that).

So I think that's it. Pop on over to the site and let me know what you think. If you have any thoughts on how to improve it, I'd love to hear them. I will try to roll out the rest of the site over the new week or two. Thanks for the patience.


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1Lindy

Hi Noah, This is the first time I have visited your site - just happened across it. While it is always good to change our format every so often it is also good to check our spelling, grammar, and punctuation. May I suggest (please note I am saying this gently and with a smile) you check yours. Also, the picture or icon that should be in the tiny box next to "Comments" is filled with one of those nasty little red X's.

Lindy :-D

November 28, 2007

2Noah Brier

Thanks lindy, think i caught most of the spelling mistakes (or rather places where I just left letters out).

And not sure about the icon, have you tried refreshing?

November 28, 2007

3Nichelle

Site looks great! I usually read from Google Reader. BTW, I just signed up for Corbis PicApps, and
Snap Shots is also doing a revenue ad-sharing program.

November 29, 2007

4Andy

Hi Noah - looks good, but I think you've lost two things that made your site distinct from others:

1. Comments 'so far'
Yours was the only blog I know that made this such a large feature (big orange square). I like that there was such a strong emphasis on group input.

2. Width of post column
Again, I liked that your posts look different to most people's - almost like a draft wiki document rather than a normal narrow column like every other blog. same for the large blog titles too actually.

A

November 29, 2007

5Noah Brier

Comments is something I plan on playing with. I agree with you on the size and it's something I plan on playing with a bit.

The width of the column is actually a readability thing. I've read a fair amount about the optimal width and was finding that (especially on wider monitors) the old site was simply too wide and looked overwhelming.

Thanks for the feedback Andy.

November 29, 2007

6wes

I'm actually a first time visitor as well and I love to look. Before reading the post I actually told me friend who linked me to your blog "Ooh I dig how the comments and a mini blog are big and on the side." So good job :) I've subscribed!

November 29, 2007

7nandhu

Looks hep and serious. great new look!

December 2, 2007

8Noah Brier

Thanks a bunch Wes and Nandhu, really appreciate it.

December 3, 2007

9Clay Parker Jones

Noah.

It's dope. Well done.

Fresh without being 2.0...

December 3, 2007