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PlainJane: My sister and I do that too! She’s in Portland, OR and I’m in Perth, AU.
Checking on my avatar…
Larger font, much better!
Libby – me, too. I’ve been trying to figure out how to do a mobile browser for SBTB for awhile now, so I am very very excited to have it. It will probably make my lust for the iPhone ascend to near-flammable, explicit levels, but I’ll try to keep that to myself.
Meggie, we’re not quite that far—I’m in Nampa, ID and she’s in Buckhannon, WV (hi Nancy!) but she introduced me to this site last year and now it’s a daily staple.
Oooh the red is very pretty! I really like the new design. Maybe I’ll get less attention when I’m trying to be sneaky and read it at work. It’s hard to be sneaky when everyone notices the pink and wants to know what the hell I’m looking at.
Checking to see if my Gravatar is rockin’…
Hmmm…I’ll tweak it one more time. But it’s a cool site, thanks for the tip, ladies!
HI Darlene – I see you & your gravatar. Nice pic!
My son (who used to be in my will) calls that my “Lesbian Elf” shot. But I like it.
Love the new look here. And like the others, I was going through withdrawal yesterday. Glad y’all are back.
Everything is all spiffy and shiny—I love the new colors and the font! There is a lot going on to the right, but I’ll get used to it shortly, so no biggie. Congrats!
snort.
Darlene, I can see other gravatars but not yours. Did you remove your lesbian-elf-self?
No, it’s there, Mel. One correction—my son said “lesbian leprechan”, not “lesbian elf”. He said it was the green eyes with the green jacket and red hair thing. If you want to see me in all my LL glory (and let me just add that my other son is bragging that now he’s getting all the china teacups), go to my website and look under “About the Author”.
It’s there now. I had to refresh a couple of times.
I’m still chuckling. “Lesbian Elf” I like your son. tell him I’ll put him in my will—but he may only inherit debt and dustbunnies.
Hmm, avatar still not there…
Lorelie: Noted the SB props on the Edwards Wikipedia page. Noted SB does not have a wiki article of their own…
*larf* @ lesbian elf!
Meggie—as they warned me at the Gravatar site, it takes at least 5-10 minutes for the avatar to show up.
Ekk! Avatar is there…however, CE homepage shows as “under construction”. Is this new? Were you all talking about that and I missed it? Have her other publishers said anything yet?
the font IS improved..thanks!
Lauraif you are having to scroll sideways , in IE7 go up to the top of your IE page and you will see a “PAGE” option with a drop down menu, if you choose “text size” and reduce it to medium it will fit to your page.
if you’re using anything other than IE7, I have no advice LOL
Love the new look!
Have fun at RT!
Mary
Not that I’ve heard of, Meggie. However, I have recently seen her books in both Barnes and Noble and a grocery store.
Ooh, the font is much better now! Thank you! 🙂
Yay! The Bitches are back! Missed you guys so much. Had to get my fix at Dear Author and thus only got half a fix as I’m used to getting my fix here and there. Now, christen the place with new cover snark.
I find the font a little pinched-looking (it’s narrower than your old one), but I like not having comments in a pop-up window anymore.
A quirky thing, though: the
Oh, now that was interesting: I tried to use square brackets around “blockquote” since I thought it would want angle brackets, and instead it formatted like a blockquote—and THIS time I can see the whole pink quotemark graphic.
So apparently the display quirk is only when a post *starts* with BLOCKQUOTE.
Brandi, I think it’s more about how many lines the quote is, rather than starting the comment with the quote.
That one should be cut off. While in this I’m betting we’re gonna see the whole image:
Aeiii! Newness! Can’t… cope…!
Naw, iz lovely. Congrats on successful housecleaning.
Love the new look~
@Lorelie and Brandi: I’m working on the quotes right now. Thanks for your feedback! 🙂
Testing for my avatar
Thank you, dear, sweet book-reading, computer-loving SBes. All this sleek artness… for us? Wow. Almost speechless, yet still I post.
THANKS.
I have nothing substantial here to say, just:
1. Joelle, it looks FANTASTIC.
2. Is my gravatar showing up? *suspense*
I like the new site. It’s going to take awhile to get used to it, but it’s easy to read, which is always good! 🙂 I went thru a change on my blog too. Much simpler, but I like it! 🙂
Missed you dreadfully!
Thanks, Rebyj. I’m not using IE7 but I’ve worked out that if I close down my sidebar (where my bookmarks are) then I can see the whole page. I like seeing my bookmarks, though, so I’ll probably just keep them where they are and manage without seeing the adverts on here.
I agree with the commenters above who said that the right side feels a little cluttered, with those two columns. (I’m not sure whether the colors are contributing to that—the sort of periwinkle next to the red and under the pink.) Functionality is great, but the look feels messier to me than the old one.
Plus, I kinda miss all the hot pink. 🙂
Thank you, thank you! I’m still tweaking things here and there, but it’s coming along!
I’ve changed the font and put it back to the exact same size it was before for your viewing pleasure.
It’s good! Is the double sidebar new? It seems both more information-heavy and attractive somehow. I like the wider column. The whole look is more fun (which certainly reflects the vibe of the site) and very fresh. The title typeface doesn’t go straight into the brain the way the old boring one did. I have to actually read it, because it’s visually more complicated. But we may get used to it and familiarity will bring ease of interpretation.
I definitely like that the comments aren’t in a separate window anymore. That bugged me.
Kudos!
Overall, me likes. yes, the two-column format looks a bit cluttered. OTOH there’s a lot more pertinent info that’s very easy to find right up top, which is a good thing.
For those of you who have your display set to 800 x 600, what the heck is wrong with you????? (sorry, just joking!) Seriously, most displays are now at least 1024 x 768 and many are much larger. So most website design is going broader so the site doesn’t look like a tiny island in a sea of nothingness. If you’re on a Peee Ceeee, right click your desktop (just the background). Go to Properties, then Settings, and in most cases you can up your resolution. You can increase font size to compensate if needed, though now that the font has gone away from trebuchet and back to verdana, that’s not a problem at all for me.
Just a little background on why a double-sidebar was chosen: Advertisers want their spaces as high above “the fold” (the part before you have to start scrolling) as possible. In order to keep those AND the most important content for readers to navigate up top, 2 columns were needed.
And those that mentioned the site being too wide, like Robinjn shared, the standard for marketable site design now is 1024×768. 🙂
Lurve it—mostly. But come on—you guys are too smart for the article headline font. You put the words “Clinton” and “Feminism” in that font, it just looks like a intellectual-ironic sit-rom-com. It’s Bewitched! With presidential candidates!
Wow, it looks amazing! I love the colors!
De-lurking to say I love the font. And the polka dots. I lurv polka dots.
Looking very good! I like the whole layout actually.