The New Design
And at last, the new design has been revealed. So far, no kinks (included in with an upgrade to WordPress 2.5, it looks like everything has gone smoothly). Hopefully this will last for as long as necessary–web designs are a long, drawn-out process, and I’m glad to have the majority of the big issues for
First I must thank LawVol from Gate21.net for his diligent work in upgrading this site. We Q&Aed back and forth for several weeks about what to do with installing the header, and didn’t hit on the final design until a week or so ago. He spent the last week tinkering around with it. I owe him a great deal for this, so for now I owe him my thanks (in the future I’ll think of something better).
Three big differences:
1) 3 columns instead of 2. There was way too much clutter on my old site, so now we can split up the widgets to where they belong.
2) We actually have an image on the header! At least the new visitor will have an idea what the hell this blog might be about. The last theme had no real marker that immediately let the audience know this was a site focused on Cal sports. Hopefully that should be cleared up.
3) Everything looks like it wasn’t cobbled together in seven minutes. Thank God for a somewhat professional-looking site.
Also the Google search engine in the sidebar has been replaced by a Lijit search engine, which is pretty cool–you can search through my Cal-related del.icio.us and youtube links along with all the content in my site, as well as choose to search on the regular web as well. It definitely looks more streamlined than the old Google search engine.
I’m sure there will be criticism of sorts, so feel free to leave your thoughts on the new design in the comments. What could be changed about the functionality of the site, what could be improved, what you miss from the old design, etc. I’ll certainly think about it for the next offseason, but hopefully this theme will last for a bit.
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also wanted to say i've been reading your blog for about 2 months now and i gotta say that its got the best pure analysis of any of the fan blogs... and i read them all.
I'm guessing that not many people know about your site yet(or do they read and not comment), but keep up the good posts and you'll reach that tipping point.
One thing i don't see often from the fan blogs... coverage of sports other than football.. if you can cover our nationally ranked baseball team and other sports (including womens)... that would give me a reason to visit everyday to checkup on.
Keep up the good work man... you got guts to start your own blog... and i think your analysis is very intelligent.
suggestions:
(1) but why is the right sidebar so far down? it's bottom anchored rather than top?
(2) more football, all year long ... something, anything to help abate the offseason withdrawal
cheers and keep it up ... ROLL ON YOU BEARS!
oh and i dont know why i can't change the avatar. help? i got the account for it...
love reading your blog. the new design is really nice and clean. the only issue is the pages seem to load much slower now for some reason
thanks,
ho
Danzig
~You've been around since the beginning, so I'm pretty impressed. The problem with covering a sport like baseball is (1) low national TV coverage, (2) low interest from viewers, (3) low interest from me--I don't really like baseball, and I can't imagine college baseball being much of a step up. HOWEVER, if we qualify for the college WS, I might be persuaded to write a few bits.
Ragnarok
~I've been aching for that second sidebar for months. I just never knew how to do it without screwing the entire site up. I'm still living in deathly fear of it.
Dano
~My linkroll is really huge. I read a lot of sites during fall season.
Lindsay
~I'll pass the criticism along to the web designer. Tell ya what, you and I can go take a better picture that would suit the site.
Ho
~Yeah, I'm not sure why the site is moving slowly for you. You might need to check your connection.
but i was thinking that if we can throw your brain power at the sports we don't follow too much... then we all might BECOME fans of those sports...
of course, its your time, not mine... so i appreciate anything you can contribute, however small.
keep up the good work man.
"As for the anchored sidebar. My guess is that his browser is set to a very low screen resolution. It will do that with any super low screen resolution (for that matter, anything with more than one column will kick the sidebar if the screen resolution is low). The other possibility is that he is using an odd browser. This one is optimized to Firefox (the only thing I will use) but is 100% IE compatible as well. I went back and re-ran a browser view test, and I didn't see any conflicts with any of the current versions of the various web browsers (FF 1.5-3.0; IE 7.0, Safari 2.0-3.1, Navigator 9.0). There is an issue in IE 6 for all multi-column web formats, and, unfortunately, I've never read anything that really fixes it -- it's a problem with the browser. Unless he's using an outdated browser, then I'd bet it's his screen resolution."
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