New site design

Update, March 9th

I have now changed it again and put some color into it. What do you guys think?

Sunday today and I was away from work with clients so I decided to work with my blog today from home.

I made a new design for this site. Check out the navigation links at the top left (best with firefox). I am especially pleased that I managed to have 2 themes with the same blog. Check out here or here for example.

Most of the visitors to the home page probably only paid noticed to the last few post but I think that is changed now. And also there is no need to scroll like a crazy anymore

Any feedback?

About the Author

Jim Westergren is a company owner from Sweden who lives together with his wife and son. Some of his interests are SEO, web development, writing and taking photos. Read his full about page or contact him. Follow Jim on Twitter or subscribe to this blog.
In Swedish: presentation, blog.

30 responses »Leave a comment

Christine
said on January 22, 2007 at 3:10 am

I like it! It’s simple, easy to navigate and unique.
Maki
said on January 22, 2007 at 5:33 am

How should I put it? It looks pretty old skool to me .. sorta reminds me of early Atari .. but that probably doesn’t make sense
agaton
said on January 22, 2007 at 11:56 am

Nice! I like it!
Rickard
said on January 22, 2007 at 5:55 pm

It disturbs me a little that the box with Google ads is wider than the other boxes. I would prefer that they all had the same width.

Apart from that it looks very nice!
agaton
said on January 22, 2007 at 10:10 pm

I like that adsense is wider than the other boxes. Something I can´t understand is why “Home” and site-navigation don´t is both over the ad and over the article-settings.

“Home” should also be much wider! We want to go back to your main-site sometimes also!
Jim Westergren
said on January 22, 2007 at 10:30 pm

Thanks for the feedback so far. The adsense is an experiement, I will probably remove it later on.

Agaton, so you mean that the site navigation box should be on the top and the article navigation on the bottom? Hmm …
Aditya
said on January 22, 2007 at 11:34 pm

The left sidebar is fixed i suppose. I cant see a part of it in bottom. Also i think a better idea is to do something with both both the boxes. The adsense box and both other boxes width is not same which doesnt look good. Either increase the width of both the boxes, or remove the adsense which will make the main area wider and better.

Screenshot – http://iup.in/img/guest/untitled10.JPG
agaton
said on January 22, 2007 at 11:55 pm

Not exactly. But a “back” link or a linked head-banner or something. The “home” – link is up in the left, in my mind.
Jim Westergren
said on January 23, 2007 at 12:04 am

Ok, now it should be better. I removed the adsense.
Vaibhav Kakkar
said on January 23, 2007 at 9:55 pm

Good work Jim
The new design gives a better navigation structure to your blog…
Bagi Zoltán
said on February 11, 2007 at 12:52 pm

I like the new design, it make Your blog absolutely unique. Congratulations!
Jim Westergren
said on March 9, 2007 at 7:22 am

New design and post updated.
Ash
said on March 9, 2007 at 7:12 pm

Just a quick note – trying to get from a blog post to home is awkward. The normal way is a link at the top or top left – i can only see one half way down the page on the left… just a idea… i think it would be easier to use if your home link was at the top… :/
Jonathan
said on March 9, 2007 at 7:50 pm

I’m still not much of a fan of it. It’s still too simple for me and isn’t really attractive to the eye
Sabrina
said on March 10, 2007 at 11:38 pm

The new Style is really simple – too simple for me.
I don´t like it so much.
gio
said on March 12, 2007 at 8:09 am

hi jim,

i like your new site design because its very simple and im sure its seo friendly too.
Jim Westergren
said on March 12, 2007 at 1:07 pm

Hi,

It is supposed to be simple, that’s the whole point.

But I will look it over and perhaps improve it more.
Michael
said on March 15, 2007 at 7:42 am

I like the site. It is simple and decent.
Scott Fish
said on March 19, 2007 at 9:38 am

I like the new design, it’s very Jim Westergren style Keep it Simple and Sweet.
Jim Westergren
said on March 23, 2007 at 4:32 am

Thanks Scott, yes it’s totally my style

I noticed you redesigned as well, much better!
Bernt Johansson
said on March 29, 2007 at 3:10 pm

Easy to navigate, and simple. I come to your site for the information and articles, not for the desig experience. And for that reason I think your design works fine.

One thing though, in the box with “Possible related articles” the text overflows the left border of the box. In IE7 that is.

And the text that I suppose should read “Leave a Comment” is missing the initial “L”.
Jim Westergren
said on March 29, 2007 at 11:52 pm

Thanks a lot Bernt. I made the design to try to lift up the content.

I made the fixes for IE7, forgot to check that.

Thanks.
Dog
said on June 12, 2007 at 11:52 pm

My first time to visit your blog! It looks great and seems to have lots of useful infomation! will keep coming to check out again! thank you
hakim
said on June 23, 2007 at 7:52 am

Good work Jim
edebiyat
said on July 20, 2007 at 1:11 pm

it looks nice and simple.
butter
said on August 31, 2007 at 2:59 pm

the 1st one is cool;great one
mitesh
said on October 4, 2007 at 9:02 am

simple and decent — nice work
Loan Express
said on October 4, 2007 at 11:08 am

It was a good site design for your blog. It will become more entertained when you add something different to your blog like links to entertaining sites, Videos etc. Good anyhow your site have a good future.Have a nice Day.
Design Directory
said on November 19, 2007 at 3:18 pm

it looks nice and simple.
Franca Richard
said on April 3, 2008 at 12:33 am

I like the design, very neat, I have updated my theme also, hope you like it