Comments on: I Told You Changes Were Coming!

By: Peggy

Peggy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:33:26 +0000

I love the new look! It’s so clean and neat.

By: Amanda Mae

Amanda Mae — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:37:17 +0000

I love it! Wow classy, easy on the eyes, and makes me want coffee!!!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:44:34 +0000

I like the overall design but find the link color print hard to read in the amber color.

By: Christa

Christa — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:41:18 +0000

Very handsome website indeed.
Classy and professional.
Though, I miss the “lady at the desk” too.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:34:16 +0000

The site make-over looks amazing! Love the cool, coffee house feel. Totally digging it! So easy to navigate too.

By: Genesis

Genesis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:42:05 +0000

I LOVE it! Very crisp and professional, but still comfy. Good job!

By: Jodee

Jodee — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:44:13 +0000

@ Dani: You are so sweet to say that! Thank you so much!

By: Dani

Dani — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:31:31 +0000

I just wanted to second or third what was stated earlier about Deb and Jodee being so wonderful about ‘criticism’ and suggestions. It is true that not everyone can handle it; and Deb and Jodee are each a complete class act when it comes to that kind of thing. Thank you both for being so awesome.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:13:17 +0000

Hi Jodee – you can go to gravatar.com to upload your image.

By: Jodee

Jodee — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:56:40 +0000

@ Deb and James: I can’t even see when I log in where to upload an image. Can one of you tell me where to look? Tx.

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:52:23 +0000

But why does it hate my gravatar James?

By: Sonya

Sonya — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:51:18 +0000

Beautiful! Clean, crisp and professional, yet inviting and cozy. And this version loads *so much faster* on dial-up, which I appreciate very, very much.

I agree about the orange font being hard to read, and I would like to see the job leads in bold (although *not* how you had them before, where the text became bold when you moused over it, that was annoying), and I’d like visited links to turn a different color so that I can keep track of where I’ve been.

By: Jodee

Jodee — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:47:33 +0000

@ Laura: Well, aren’t you kind!

By: Christine Whitmarsh

Christine Whitmarsh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:45:20 +0000

I LOVE the new design! At first I almost thought I was on the wrong website, since the change was so dramatic from old site to new site. Well done and many kudos!

By: James Chartrand - Men with Pens

James Chartrand - Men with Pens — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:16:22 +0000

I’ll second Deb’s thanks. The IE6 issue was corrected today (go figure. Looks great in Safari, Firefox and IE7… SWITCH TO FIREFOX, PEOPLE!) and we all agree that the orange should be a nice burnt orange to be easier to read. An archives plugin should also fix some of the “find me!” issues.

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:09:18 +0000

HI guys,

Thank you for all the positive comments and creative criticism. I’m so glad you like the design as much as we do. I can’t tell you how good I feel about it. When I saw the mock up last week it was absolutely perfect – exactly the pull up a chair and have a cup of coffee feel I was looking for.

The designers are reading the comments and making note of the issues. We’ll take care of that pesky orange font that isn’t getting much love around here.

Rock on

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:45:37 +0000

Deb and Jodee, you two rock. You are very sweet and pleasant, even when we complain about the font, color/size…hehe.

Thanks for being YOU! Not everyone can take someone offering their opinions,especially when it is a form of criticism (although I still think the new (overall) look rocks); kudos.

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:34:12 +0000

I love the design. I’ve customized two themes by this designer for two sites I run and I love them. The Pen Men rock – they did the banner on my site. However, can I add an easy archives link to the wish list? Sometimes I’d like to be able to find an old post easily.

By: pajamadeen

pajamadeen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:10:00 +0000

Looks nice, but agree with the others about the orange text. Found it very hard to read in job listings and kind of hurt my eyes, to be honest about it. Also, color coding for “visited” links woul be nice – once we’ve looked at a job listing.

Otherwise, a very clean look!

By: Wilson Pon

Wilson Pon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:57:06 +0000

WoW, this change is absolutely awesome…

Loved the layout colors and would you mind to give a cup of coffee to me here?

Wilson.

By: Kara

Kara — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:16:31 +0000

I love this new design! It’s very crisp, easy to read and navigate and there aren’t distractions drawing my eye away from what I want to be focused on. It’s gender-neutral and cozy and seems like a great writer’s haven. I don’t find the font size or color difficult to ready, but I wear pretty heavey-duty prescriptions already

Good work!

By: Skippy

Skippy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:57:58 +0000

Overall I love it! But I do agree with those who say they’d like a little contrast between the print and the background. Then again, I need to get to an eye doctor someday.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:53:21 +0000

Like Laura above, I find this more difficult to read. I would prefer more contrast between background and type and/or a larger font size.

I’m no designer, but I know when things are hard on the eyes.

By: Amanda Nicole

Amanda Nicole — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:48:33 +0000

I really like this new look. I, too, am finding the orange hard to read, though, and I can’t immediately tell where I’ve already clicked on because the link colour stays the same! All in all I like it–especially the option for our pictures! Makes it very personable.

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:26:25 +0000

Love the new look! The site looks mah-velous dah-ling! As a few others have stated, the orange print is a little bit hard to read – perhaps making it a tad deeper rather than brighter will help (at least on my monitor).

I love that there are little icons for those posting comments – I will have to look around some more to see how I can add one for myself.

Great job – keep up the fabulous work.