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Wow, looks… ahh different.

Can’t say i love it or hate it yet but it certainly is different.

The font size i can’t say is the easiest to read, mainly the size, font type and contrast between the background makes it “slightly” difficult to read. A simple few paragraph entry isn’t too bad but i think reading something more substansial would start to get a bit difficult.

Also on IE7 (yeah i know) you’ve got a horizontal scroller on your entry pages but it’s not present on home page.

P.S I also sent you an Email about a week or so ago Chris, maybe it got canned.

Carly,

Hey Carly.

Yes, much different isn’t it! I hear you on the contrast/font size issue. I am one to prefer larger font sizes, so I will definitely be looking into that as things settle.

IE 7 and 6 have some oddities, but not as many as I had anticipated, I should be able to have them worked out shortly.

I didn’t see you email, I will check my junk folders and see if it was sent to purgatory.

excellent man. I’m glad you got gridded up. And I think you will definitely dig multi-classing. I’ve been doing that on a recent project of mine and it has proven absolutely invaluable.

It’s kartooner approved, if there was such a thing. Loving the crest and the color scheme, not to mention the scribbled hr’s.

Best CJD redesign ever.

Looking good Chris… Maybe a separator between comments would be in order? They kind of butt up against eachother a little closely. Other than that I’m digging it.

Tell you a secret… My site was built with Blueprint as well. Took a little longer than you (due mostly to my indecisiveness), but it was a relatively decent experience. I went back and made the code a little more semantic when I was through.

Anyway, great design, good times. Keep it comin’ P) (pirate emoticon… keep it alive)

Nice. Big change from the last design, and I like it. I have always found that one column is just too restricting, and finding the right grid can be a difficult exercise.

However I really like the grid you’ve got happening on the home page. Only comment would be to make the single posts stand out a bit more, seems like they could get lost with the comment directly next to it.

Other than that top stuff as always, and further demonstrating the flexibility of Habari.

I’m not a fan of HUGE type but you know that already, otherwise, I’m digging the clean-ness of it all.

Thanks for all the comments guys I appreciate it.

I like it, its very “vanilla” GG mate!

Hey, wow! It looks really great. I guess my only beef would be with the main font. Maybe a little bigger… maybe some serif love… but overall, it’s fantastic!

Is your favicon Silent Bob from Clerks?

It’s very refreshing Chris but I like your previous design more. :P There’s a minor issue that horizontal scroll bar is shown when using Firefox maximized under 1024x768 resolution. Seems like a little overflowed.

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I love the new look. I gotta agree with Erik - best CJD redesign ever.

I dig the new look. Very simple and elegant, focusing on the content and not some snazzy graphic here and there. I see some room for improvement on the homepage, where the content sort of all runs together, but otherwise it looks great.

Now you’ve got me wanting to look into Blueprint CSS. It might be useful for work projects.

“I didn’t see you email, I will check my junk folders and see if it was sent to purgatory.”

Thanks Chris, i resent it using my ISP email.

Also the design is definately growing on me, i think it was more the fact you didn’t mention a re-design.. just whamo got us by surprise. :)

Whoa, how did I miss this! D’oh!

Well better late than never they say. I love the new look and colors Chris. I agree with Patrick about the content sort of running together though I’m not totally thrown off by it. The only other thing that sticks out at me is the “Add your Comment” button as it doesn’t seem to fit the feel of the rest of the site.

I really dig the cleanliness and readability of it all though, great work as per usual my friend.

I like this new look. It’s easier on the eyes and less depressing looking :)

Nice look, I like the simple design, makes it easy to read your blog. I’m not a big fan of the large print for the header though.

I think this is a big improvement over the previous design. In particular, the content is much easier to parse. I also like how you did the headings.

I’m working on a blueprint based design as well, sort of. I screen-captured the grid for use in photoshop, but I’m writing the CSS on my own to make the site fluid. I guess that completely defeats the purpose of blueprint, but props to the grid! (Needless to say, it’s taking me longer than 4 hours)

I like it a lot! (Aside from the errors you’ve got going on at the top, of course, heh.) The header is like a smack in the face, in a good way, really woke me up. And the comments the side, love that :)

I like the design. It sort of reminds me of my High School newspaper during the two years that the Art department stole it from the English department. We were frequently spent more time on layout than content on that. It looked great. Not always the most well-written, but that’s not a risk here.