Comments on: Opinions?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:06:30 +0000

No, I didn’t stop — I was just running late, as usual. My new previews writeup is the newest post on the home page — thanks for letting me know you appreciate it!

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:55:39 +0000

Have you decided not to do previews recommendations anymore? I can’t find your december list on the site. I’ve discovered lots of great stuff I never would have noticed except for your list – so I hope you continue!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:28:19 +0000

Oops! Fixed. It’s the most basic things that are easiest to overlook…

By: Vincent J. Murphy

Vincent J. Murphy — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:48:53 +0000

There’s no background color specified in the style sheet for the body: I assume it should be white. Since I browse with a default of dark gray, that’s the color of your background.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:23:56 +0000

Glad you like it! That was one of the big selling points of the new system for me — now the computer can build link pages for me instead of me having to hand-code them.

By: Rivkah

Rivkah — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:49:43 +0000

Love it! The layout feels easier to read and navigate, and I like how there’s a category for every post so I can read just the comics or manga news if I so choose. :)

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:09:48 +0000

Thanks, everyone, for your help!

James, the categories you’re looking for will appear as the content does.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:00:26 +0000

good stuff! the colour scheme looks a lot better now.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:39:07 +0000

Ah, much better color scheme and I like the bigger type for the links.

I hadn’t thought of the supervillain thing, I was thinking more of the coolest Legionnaire Shrinking Violet when I saw the new scheme.:)

Yay to no ads I have to wait to load.

Any chance of the navigation thing having a category feature? I liked being able to just check manga or DC or Marvel reviews lists.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:54:25 +0000

At least you didn’t make a joke about me going from superhero colors to supervillain purple.

Heh, well consider the identity of my personal dead horse (about whom I’ve got a post coming)… it’s not a supervillain that comes to mind when I think of purple and comics…

By: jdonelson.nyc

jdonelson.nyc — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:48:55 +0000

I have a suggestion, feel free to ignore it of course – but you might want to try making the box borders thinner (1px) and/or a lighter color.

Other than that, I like the colors and I definitely like the usability (RSS links, meta info at the top of posts, etc.)!

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:03:19 +0000

I must say I really like the idea of RSS feeds for comments. The only other blogsystem I know that has it is bloghorn.com, but I’m sure there are others.

By: Joshua Macy

Joshua Macy — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:27:03 +0000

I like the new look better.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:35:18 +0000

Lyle: I liked the red, too. At least you didn’t make a joke about me going from superhero colors to supervillain purple. :)

John: Always my concern as well, to keep the content worth reading. I think this will be a positive change.

And I’m definitely going to be moving all the recommend CWR book reviews over!

David: That’s what KC said as well, “it’s awfully girly”. But I think we’ve reached a point where that’s no longer a detriment to being a comic commentator.

By: David Oakes

David Oakes — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:06:02 +0000

The first color scheme coated, soothed, relieved. (Actually, my first thought was “Who is this girly-girl that hacked Johanna’s website?”) The purples make me want peanut butter. But like most readers, I am sure I will get used to it.

(Though I will say that purple makes the “previously viewed” shade on URLs harder to distinguish.)

By: Trochee

Trochee — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:48:33 +0000

The look is very crisp. I like that it captures a lot of information without a lot of goofy graphics.

Thanks for including the RSS meta-links on the sidebar, and I look forward to being able to find your reviews more easily (though site:comicsworthreading.com along with my keywords helps out pretty good with Google).

I agree with Heidi M. above: please include your old material in the new format, if you can!

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:40:07 +0000

I’ll get used to the color change, as long as the content remains up to par. It makes sense to combine all aspects of your site to make everything easier to find.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:09:19 +0000

Overall I like the design (though I find myself missing the red) I’m hoping the old Comics Worth Reading content will be imported as well.

Though, sigh, another reason I’ve got to get to updating my blogroll…

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:32:55 +0000

Thanks, Heidi. I will be bringing much stuff over… but I also want to streamline the site to make the good stuff easier to find.

By: Heidi M.

Heidi M. — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:31:02 +0000

he main pink is a little dark.

JOHANNA you must import old content! So much good stuff there.