Comments on: A List Apart 4.0: Your Honest Thoughts

By: personals

personals — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:03:39 +0000

You have that personals touch the site is very refreshing and clean looking the design is excellent all around in my opinion.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:09:03 +0000

I am far from impressed with it.

It seems so unbalanced to me. I still think the “pro’s” could of did better.

Yes the reading is nice and easy on the eyes but a little bit of eye candy won’t hurt (least of my dislikes, anyhow).

Anyone can make a design with green, black, grey, and brown. It should only take about an hour to have a whitespaced, unbalanced web site and proper font choices and brand it “a great read”. When I am navigating from article to article that left logo just annoys the hell out of me and I don’t know why, it just sits there looking at me! It all just seems a bit too ammature to me. Font size is small and color seems to be to light and ‘faded’ on a laptop with 1024×768 resolution. (Yes, i am running on a full battery :)

it’s still nice but I think it could be better in a lot of ways. Especially for these guys :(

By: George

George — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:07:56 +0000

How do you view the comments on articles where the discussion is closed?

Am I being thick?

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:43:12 +0000

I did like the classic style, ironic that in someway this kind of designs are refreshing…

By: Jough Dempsey

Jough Dempsey — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:22:04 +0000

“While it’s not exactly apparent to the beginner user, Firefox allows you to remove the styles, leaving plain, black text.”

I’m aware of Firefox’s features, and indeed use a custom stylesheet for a number of sites (this one too, as the default sheet is too wide and the font size too small to be readable… for me).

My point was that since we’re discussing ALA’s new design, we should discuss THEIR design and not OUR design in doing extra work just to read that one site by making a custom stylesheet, or eliminating their styles altogether and squeezing the width of our browser windows to make the site more readable.

“As for 17″ columns, I dont find them that much wider than the two paragraphs that gave me a headache.”

Yes, both ALA and Whitespace have text columns that are too wide to be comfortably readable. But this post wasn’t about Whitespace’s inadequacies. We’re discussing ALA. So what’s your point?

By: somuee

somuee — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:35:59 +0000

I think it’s great… near perfection design-wise, imo.

I’m getting really tired of the ’2005 blog-site design’ and was pleasantly surprised to see ALA step away.

By: GaBuBu

GaBuBu — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:05:31 +0000

Not a very suitable design for the format of what ALA is. An online “magazine”.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:01:19 +0000

Greg: It’s the original one.

By: thomas marban

thomas marban — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:57:19 +0000

my first impression was -oh, another very nice blog-
it really has the professional polish but if someone calls it the mother of all design sites it falls short of my expectations. colors look too pale and i’m not sure about that serif, italic, bold mixture. it’s a bit too much of all.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:11:43 +0000

Speaking of design… which Yahoo! Store template are you using for this site?

I have a client who sells spatulas at volume discount who thinks the design here at Whitespace is “totally rad”.