New WP.com Design

31 Responses

Chris Harrison | December 15th, 2006 @ 12:21 am
I like it. It’s clean and well-organized.
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Fonzo | December 15th, 2006 @ 1:06 am
Whoa! That thing is damn busy. I like parts of the design, but there is just TOOOOOO much content splashed around and squished together. The layout should separate the content, not the size/boldness of the letters. Ugh. I’m not a fan.
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Harrisony | December 15th, 2006 @ 1:32 am
Ohh….i like it
Good work Matt
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Vladimir Yashnikov | December 15th, 2006 @ 2:20 am
Wow, it’s HOT
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Michael | December 15th, 2006 @ 2:33 am
I personally feel that it’s a little half-assed. This doesn’t seem to be the case, but is it still being completed, Avalonstar or Simplebits style?
This page imparticular seems completely uncompleted. The images do not match the width of the site (seems to me they are probably the same ones from the old site?) and the text was formatted quickly and kind of sloppily.
The homepage is also a bit chaotic, whereas the older one (although less colorful) was very straightforward and pretty nice in my opinion.
I really love Wordpress and have really liked everything you guys have cranked out so far, but this just really doesn’t seem to match up.
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Pascal Pensa | December 15th, 2006 @ 2:45 am
aaaaah, now with reflection! very contemporary…
nice job, though!
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Stuart Maynard-Keene | December 15th, 2006 @ 3:36 am
I like it, especially the sidebar, nice!
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Matt | December 15th, 2006 @ 4:06 am
We’re going to do the features page tomorrow.
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zo | December 15th, 2006 @ 6:16 am
Um, Safari 2.0.4 here, on Tiger, on the last Powerbook (sob) ever made: Buttons? Sidebars? Dropping to the bottom?
Luckily, no problems with the themes I’ve tried out and hope to god have chosen one … Sooo much tasty stuff available for WP, so much talent … (I’m a Blogger ref-u-gee) I can hardly stand it.
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Sean | December 15th, 2006 @ 7:36 am
looks great - is this being done with Matt Thomas?
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Noah Slater | December 15th, 2006 @ 8:00 am
The keyword side bar is a cool CSS trick, but isn’t the concept of moving key elements of the sites navigation around a potentially confusing one to “normal” users?
Why don’t you fix it to the bottom. It looks nice (less cluttered) there.
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mitch | December 15th, 2006 @ 8:34 am
Like the new design, but the font is rough on my screen
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andrea | December 15th, 2006 @ 9:32 am
The sidebar thing is indeed nifty!
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Dougal Campbell | December 15th, 2006 @ 11:19 am
It needs some body {background-color: white;} love
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blumoon | December 15th, 2006 @ 12:24 pm
Looks amazing!
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Ozh | December 15th, 2006 @ 12:49 pm
FYI, this page is broken with IE (sshot), logged or not. No other glitch spotted though.
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Ozh | December 15th, 2006 @ 12:49 pm
(ok, I also broke my html link
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gidibao | December 15th, 2006 @ 2:18 pm
awesome , I like it!!!
great work Matt
I love WordPress
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Celso Bessa | December 15th, 2006 @ 3:24 pm
Thanks for visit! Thanks for the redesign!
Nice job Matt!
Best Wishes
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Dylan | December 15th, 2006 @ 4:48 pm
@Michael: Whoa man, sure, give constructive criticism, but what you’ve said seems pretty harsh to me.
I’m liking it. If anything, the old design is what looked incomplete in my opinion, what with the grainy drop shadow image and unstyled links. I think the visual hierarchy of the new design is excellent and certainly looks a lot more professional and enticing.
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Michael | December 15th, 2006 @ 6:38 pm
@Dylan: Yea, I guess I was a little harsh. The thing is, and I could be wrong here, but I’m pretty sure I know what was going through Matt’s (the designer Matt) head while making this.
The only reason I can come up with as to why it looks incomplete (not half-assed, poor choice of words) is because maybe they really were rushing a redesign. However, the only time I think a design should be rushed is when you have a certain window of opportunity that, if not met, will seriously damage you.
Thing is, they already had a site up, and it was perfectly acceptable to me. I guess it just isn’t something I would have done. I can see the site evolving though, and have already seen some changes, so maybe it’s a work in progress.
And please, I hope no one misunderstands me as accusing Matt Thomas as being a sub-par designer. I think he has done some amazing stuff and hes truly awesome.
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Shahzad Khan | December 15th, 2006 @ 7:02 pm
To tell the truth, the older design was much better, coz it was much simpler…don’t ya know “Less is more” and yeah K.I.S.S !
peace
-mE
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Ethan Neuenswander | December 15th, 2006 @ 8:25 pm
A very clean look; I like it. Good work Automattic.
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N. A. Hilal | December 15th, 2006 @ 9:44 pm
yess, A very clean look; I like it.
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Tom | December 16th, 2006 @ 8:39 am
I agree that it’s quite busy, but it’s still a MASSIVE improvement over the old design, which was in my opinion, very unprofessional looking.
In summary, keep the styleof the new one, but reintroduce the simplicdity of the old one.
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Søren | December 16th, 2006 @ 10:38 am
It looks very nice.
And I don’t agree with people who think there is too much content. I think you have managed to make it very easy to use, and nice looking
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openpeople | December 16th, 2006 @ 11:44 am
Hey Matt it looks really cool and clean - nice job
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Kyle Korleski | December 17th, 2006 @ 4:05 pm
Nice job! I really like the new look of the wordpress.com website!
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