If you came here from Daring Fireball and wish to leave comments on this weblog’s gimmickery, visual conceit, or other general Mac nerdery, here is an open thread for comments.
If you came here from Daring Fireball and wish to leave comments on this weblog’s gimmickery, visual conceit, or other general Mac nerdery, here is an open thread for comments.
the gimmicky design conceit is cute, sure, but wasn’t avoiding this look the whole point of the desktop publishing / design revolution? Its clever (if a little sentimental), but not all that readable.
I love, love, love this design. I want, want, want to steal it. But I won’t. It’s too perfect. And no one would forgive me.
From the office of: Oliver Taylor
Date: 6 April 2007
Reference #: 8977-0992-AZX
I’m getting sick to my stomach of all these websites that look exactly the same. Web 2.0, aqua buttons, ajax this-and-that, bull-hock. I find your site refreshing and brave.
You have my support.
Real slick.
Heh, nice design!
Gimmickery? Hardly. I love the look and the content.
This place is a new favorite of mine. One wish: RSS feeds.
w00t
great design!
I was meaning to comment on your new design a week or so back when I first spotted it. Great stuff that in some ways reminds me of Khoi Vinh’s work over at subtraction.com.
There are RSS feeds, I just forgot to put them in the code to be auto-discovered. It is just a WordPress theme (which I titled “Declassified”), but a little too funky CSS-wise to release it publicly for all. Maybe someday when I have too much time on my hands, or I redesign again…
Yes, very clever, but all the capital letters everywhere are difficult to read.
One small thing is that the curly quotes don’t quite fit. This is one design where it’d look *better* with old-school straight quotes and apostrophes.
Gorgeous. I’ll second that request for RSS visibility. Even without the auto-discover, I searched the page for ‘RSS’ and ‘XML’ and came up empty-handed.
Don’t make me start guessing what ridiculous set of strings WordPress expects me to tack onto the URL to get a feed out of you.
I love it, makes me want to rummage through my closet and papers looking for an inspired design for my site :)
In Bloglines if you just put in the web site URL it will give you the various feeds available, and I figured other places did the same so I didn’t think it was a big deal.
I’m not sure if the curly quotes is a WordPress text entry or Courier thing. I’m not sure I can do anything about that (because I agree).
Hmm… It’s interesting.