Falling Over and Possibly Down

If you have not yet, I invite you to take a look at the new dooce​.com. Refresh your browser. Probably a lot of times. Update your feed link.

Bigger photos! Easier to get around! Better search!

I’m ready to pass out and I didn’t even do the really heavy lifting. After looking at all the options, we made the move to Drupal and I’ve been pleased, surprised, frustrated and impressed. It’s a very robust, if stubborn platform. The next few weeks and months will be boot camp for me. Most platforms are stubborn. It’s the way of the world.

We hope you enjoy the site. I’m going to enjoy sleeping. More later, internet.

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  • http://librainfrance.blogspot.com/ A Seattleite in Paris

    Luv the new site!

  • http://www.alikelystory.blogs.com Kath

    Beautiful!!

    Beautiful site. Beautiful font. Beautiful Wife. Beautiful Daughter. Totally scrumptious Chuckalicious. Beautiful Hot Nerd Jon.

    Beautiful work, Jon. And Heather.

    Take the rest of the week off :-)

  • RR

    Great new look. But I’m with jeff and others, posts with posts, links with links.

  • Stephanie

    I really like it. I’m just scared that my next button seems to be gone when going through the archives. Can you add that back? I still have lots of blogs that I want to read without having to use the mouse too much. :)

  • http://dregina.wordpress.com dregina

    Another laptop user writing in to say the pictures are so big that they’re actually kind of hard to “see” on my screen — I would have to be about 3 feet back from my screen for my eyes to focus properly to take in the whole image.

    And that I would like the links to go back to having their own section.

    And that the ads are somewhat overwhelming.

    But, I know how hard it is to make all the disparate pieces of one website work, and I really appreciate your dedication to keeping things looking as clean and neat as they do.

  • http://www.workroom.org workroom

    ya maybe it’s just change itself that i don’t like?
    but i’m in agreement with the non-congratulators on the look (and have the ads been supersized?)

    but this thing is huuuge (and i’m at 1680x1050 on 23″ cinema display)

    here’s a browsershot
    http://​workroom​.org/​j​o​u​r​n​a​l​/​d​o​o​ce.jpg

    but seems most everyone likes it?
    i just feel it’s lost a lot of it’s ol personality?
    dunno don’t mean to be a dissenter, and i do appreciate the hard work… designing for Drupal is hard

    just 2 worthless cents

  • http://blurbomat.com blurb

    @workroom, ads are the same size. There is a new ad unit or two, but nothing with more screen real estate than the old design. I note that your screenshot is at 925 pixels wide. The site is meant to be viewed at 1024x768. Heather wants her photos big!

    There’s no way we can please everyone and I’m sorry to read that you think it’s lost some personality. Most of the feedback has be overwhelmingly positive.

    Heather didn’t design for Drupal. Drupal was bent to hold this design. See here.

    Your opinion is welcome, thanks for sharing.

  • Alyce

    I’ve added my lengthy comments o’er yonder number 272 or some such.

    I said as much there, but I do appreciate your willingness to both discuss the process (and the tedium, I imagine) as well as solicit feedback. It’s refreshing.

  • http://1000timesno.net Jen

    After ribbing you earlier for leaving the October masthead up, I just have to say…

    Bravo.

    (Love the purple, BTW. Keeps it regal, not emo.)

  • sV

    Looks great and I am sure it will continue to evolve.
    Ditto on breaking out the links. I like to read all of the Dooce content first and then venture off site to the daily links.
    The bigger pictures are sweet but at 1280x800 I have to scroll half of the photo out of frame to read the caption below. Would sure be nice to have everything in one screen.
    Ads? What ads? Have you people never heard of firefox?

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