I usually read everything off the RSS page so I can't say I noticed until you pointed it out!

When it comes to other people's site design I usually take the same approach I use when my wife doesn't like my haircut: It's my head.

The new look doesn't impact readability so if you like it, I figure that's pretty much all that matters.

I Like the new 'skin'.... and I still smile that it IS skin. :) Does each section get its own now? (Asks the man who doesn't have to make them all...)

I say keep the new!

Granted, I just get used to things, so I may be prejudiced by that innate conservatism. But I like the old logo with the lightning.

Either is good... I noticed the difference right away, having visited the site yesterday, and I like it fine, but I can't say that it's either better or worse than the original

Hey, that's pretty cool. I just noticed that the masthead is little reptiles. Good choice.

i noticed right away...skins are skin, but the new logo seems harder on my eyes, like vertigo.

I like both of them. Sorry, not much help, am I?

Mr. Michael:

Does each section get its own now?

That was my original intent, but I ran out of creative steam. At the moment, there are only four, I believe: the original, the one on Movies, the one on FAQs, and of course this one.

It's not difficult to make a new skin; it's just tough thinking up something creative that doesn't look wretched. Now I only need six more!

Bill M:

How about a rotating "container"? Say a different look for each day of the week or something. I don't think I've seen that anywhere before.

For very good reason! I can't even begin to imagine how I could automate that. Actually, I know how it could be done, but I'm not good enough at Perl to do it:

You'd have to make seven different stylesheets... say, stylesheet.sun, stylesheet.mon... stylesheet.sat. Then you would make a Chron job that ran a Perl program; it would fetch the day of the week, then copy the corresponding stylesheet to stylesheet.css.

That way, each day would have its own "skin." If you weren't sure whether it was Tuesday or Wednesday, you could find out by looking at Big Lizards! We could have Blue Monday, Ruby Tuesday, Green Wednesday (Sachi tells me that Wednesday is "water day"), and so on.

Cute, but I think it would play merry hell with site branding....

Karmicommunist:

[T]he new logo seems harder on my eyes, like vertigo.

There is probably some way in PhotoShop to soften the edges of the actual lizard-letters, but I don't know how to do it. Maybe one of the photo-retouching filters? I've never played around with them, since I don't have digital photos that I want to turn into prints, which is what they're mostly for.

In fact, there is a new Eye Candy add-on to PhotoShop from Alien Skin that is specifically for retouching digital photos to make them look more like prints. I didn't buy it; these things are kind of expensive, $50, and I wouldn't use it very often. But that's probably how to make the logo less hard on the eyes.

The rest of youse:

The consensus is to stick with the original. I think I'll leave this up a couple more days, and if people don't start changing their mind as they get more used to it, I'll change the Blog back to the original and move this new design to one of the other pages, probably Articles.

Dafydd

Didn't notice the change at first, but that may have been because I was still working on my first cup of coffee when I got here. I won't quit coming by if you keep the new skin but I liked the old one better.

As for the Photoshop... open the lizards image in PS, then go to Filters --> Blur --> Gaussian Blur and play around. Maybe 1 or 1.5 pixels, a REALLY light touch will do it. ;) Mind you, they look fine to me, and it may actually help more to blur the rainbow background, but hey, once you open THAT Can of Worms, your day is lost to the demons of Photoshop! Keep an eye on the clock and limit yourself to 10 minutes of fussing, if you can't find the 'right' change, don't change it at all.

There is probably some way in PhotoShop to soften the edges of the actual lizard-letters...

The letters are fine...its the wavy stuff above them that makes the vertigo. Sorry for the slow reply, but i was just able to get back up from the floor.

BTW, i just tried looking again, and my chair (with me in it) hasn't fallen over again. i just took another look, and can still type. Please give a warning next time...

;)

i was at one time, the head-butting Champ of the World...for like three-plus decades. Yes, i did have two losses during that time, and PhotoShop didn't come out until right after my third return. Cameras had never worked before then, and usually just took a blank photo. PhotoShop was still fairly new in late 1992, but it was able to save the photos of all my wins, before i retired in 1993. This was from a photo of my first win, in 1958 (a title that i held until 1984), and a photo that i could never see until PhotoShop made it viewable:

me '58

i have more hair since retiring in 1993, am thinner, and no longer wear gold rings on my mug and head. i am less brutal now...at least looks wise.

Dafydd,

The new skin's just fine. The old masthead logo's better than the new one, IMO.

I agree with cdquarles.

Its the product in the package that counts.

Thanks for hissing in, . Now you can slither in with a comment, o wise. (sign out)

(If you haven't hissed a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Hang loose; don't shed your skin!)

URL:
Remember me unto the end of days? AyeNay!

Comments: (Sssselect text and bite a button to apply HTML tagssssss...)