Our new look…
As you may be able to tell we have a new design.
Tina has done a great job getting this together in her non-existent “free” time.
If you see anything that we’ve missed please feel free to email or leave a comment.
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August 28th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Love the new look. Great job, Tina!
August 28th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Wow–thanks Brad! I want to note that there was a slub with Internet Explorer 6, but after testing and re-coding, it should be fixed. So much for perfection, right?
August 28th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I can sympathize. I can’t wait for the day that I no longer have to worry about making my sites compatible with IE6. Sooner rather than later I hope.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Yes–I too await the death of IE6, but in the meantime, conditional comments are our friend.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Great work Tina, clean & cool.
Only one thing I have to ask, why the use of images for text (main title and “The Refresh Manifesto”)?
OK two things, what’d you think of using the Blueprint CSS (sorry, poking around your source!)? Did it speed things up?
August 29th, 2007 at 9:28 am
First off, thank you Brendan!
Second: the text-as-images thing. The biggest reason for the text as images is that I’m a bit of a type-nut. I used Officina-Sans for the type and it’s not one of those “embed-friendly” or “import-friendly” fonts, being a commercial, Open-Type typeface. Rather than risk the wrath of Adobe, I made the two images.
As far as the blueprint framework goes, it’s awesome. I may be doing a write-up on using blueprint in the near future. It not only made work go a little faster, but it allowed me to concentrate more on designing and less on fiddling around. Of course, there’s always a bit of fiddling, but this time it was minimized to wrestling with IE6 for a few small issues and wrangling conditional comments to work in my standalone IE6 browser. I’ve used blueprint for a few sites now and have been nothing but pleased with it. It’s also quite easy to customize, which makes it an absolute gem of a tool.