We are far from finished but the structure is in place for our new design, with only minor issues along the way. Thanks so much to Brandon, David, Stephen, Chad, BK, Chris, Karen, and everyone who has taken an interest in this project and made comments along the way. None of the above mentioned are on the staff as full-time web people. Indeed, people are always amazed to find out that Mises.org has no full-time web person. How does it all work? Lots of talent, enthusiasm, and dedication. This week especially I stood in awe of it all.
More is coming.
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It still says “Daily Ariticles”. What is an ariticle?
gah! Massive uglification! My eyes! My eyes!
[Really I just don't like the way every 2-line blog entry now up nearly the entire vertical space in my browser!]
Yes, that article gif has typo but we’ve let it go until the source files become available again in work hours.
Anyone elese not like the new blog layout?
I second the vote against the new design.
Jeff,
By far the biggest upgrade needed for the site is to fix all of the many, many media files that don’t work (for example, barely any of the links in the Economics of Fascism section work).
Thanks.
It looks good so far. Nice job.
I hate the design. But then, if it keeps me away, that’s more of an advantage, right?
I think I like the new blog format best of all, actually.
I’m not sure what you mean about media files not working. I just tried every link here and they all work.
I like the design. It’s sober. It’s better, no doubt. Not that I didn’t like it before. It wasn’t quite as consistent though. The latest Blog comments unfortunately have become to small on the right to be readable in my browser (I surf upward so few people will relate to this problem)
Congratulations!
I must say I didn’t like the design at first. Probably it is because I’ve gotten so used to it – it seemed to have more ‘character’ to me.
Apart from all sentimentality, I must say the new design is great: sobriety, consistency and functionality have all improved.
Thanks !!!
PS
I just happened to notice that in the ‘study guide’ the main menu tends to disappear behind the white one below it
I’m fine with the new look.
Something I’d still like one day that the old scheme did not have either is, both the time and the date showing on each entry. If I had my druthers, they’d both be near the top of the entry.
But, hey, it’s fairly low on the priority list. Just wishful thinking.
Thanks for all the good work!
I would like the “Recent Comments” column for the blog to be MUCH longer. It would be great if it showed the activity of at least the last 24 hours.
Otherwise, looks good.
Fred
Jeffrey,
I love where you have taken the design- it looks very cool, yet functional.
I hate the new design. The old one was classic. I understand the need to provide more links to content, but for starters, bring back the old header, re-enlarge the font for the links on the left column on the main page, lose the generic brown blogspot style “Mises Economics Blog” header in the comments section, and make sure no white space is visible between the litany of links in the center of the main page.
I am no fan of the new look.
I agree the old one looked classic.
The people who said they couldn’t find content on this site prior to the redesign are either internet disabled, weren’t looking very hard, or didn’t really want to find anything.
Excellent! Mises.org leads the way in both content and presentation.
Can’t imagine National Review making available past issues like the Mises Insitute does with its publications.
I’m not sure what you mean about media files not working. I just tried every link here and they all work.
Posted by jeffry at September 16, 2006 10:41 AM
I just tried three of them, and Real Player gave me a message for each one saying it couldn’t locate the specified clip. I also tried “save target as” to download a file to my HD and play it from there (which has worked for me sometimes in the past when just clicking on a mises.org media link didn’t), but that didn’t work for these clips either.
The vertical spacing seems to be somewhat large as well for me. Is everybody else looking to mises.org on a 21″ TFT screen?
I have problems printing the articles. Until now, it works fine, but now when I try to print anything, it gets out of borders. I think the problem is related with the size of the papers we use in Europe (DIN A4), and you have formatted the design only for letter size. Please, correct it. Also, I am not receiving the Article of the day (at least, the last one).
Euribe,
I’ve made some updates to the print style-sheet that should take care of things — I don’t think A4 vs. letter should make any difference — they are the same width, just a slightly different length.
Let me know if you still see problems with it.
A4 is slightly less than 1/4″ narrower and 3/4″ longer.
you might consider renaming the header images to something other than banner*.gif. my proxy (privoxy) blocks them all because the name trips the regex filter. probably other proxies/filters do as well.
other than that looks great. thanks for fixing the search box problem.
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