Redesign: Favatars

Posted in Blog, January 2, 2006 | 6 comments

You may or may not have noticed a new design here. It's a "live" redesign, which is to say that I've had it in the works for a while and putting it live with a few bugs will motivate me to get it finished properly a bit quicker! I know the comment posting form is a little funky looking, and IE has a problem with the rounded corners, but if you spot anything else wrong, please let me know.

A proper write-up of the redesign is on the way, but wanted to let you know of a small new feature added in this redesign - the favatars. Have a look at a comments section, and you will see them next to each post. Once the live comment preview is added, there will be live favatar previewing as well.

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James Maskell

United Kingdom #1: January 2, 2006

Nice design, I'm liking it.

Flows nicely and is much smoother than the old.

Well done, keep up the good work!

brian w.

United States #2: January 2, 2006

I like the new look! It looks great in firefox, but safari doesn't seem to stretch your inner content div to the full width of the reddish/black box. It only seems to want the div to be 605px or so. Let me know if you want a screenshot or anything.

Chavalina

Spain #3: January 2, 2006

I usually don't like liquid layouts, but your mixed is great!

Sam

United Kingdom #4: January 2, 2006

Nice idea with the favicons, but isn't this what the whole point of Gravatars are for?

Dave Child

United Kingdom #5: January 2, 2006

Sam: True, it is. However, Gravatars rely on people signing up to their service, and I think that Favatars will ensure more people have a distinctive icon next to their name.

spindletide

United States #6: April 23, 2008

favatars is smarter for websites.
for non-site-owners, gravatars (email based) are smarter.