Comments on: Goodbye Old Friend: Why I (Finally) Designed a Responsive Blog

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Monday Must-Reads [07.21.14 The Last Month's Worth] — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:47:54 +0000

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By: Johnk624

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By: Ramsay

Ramsay — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:22:33 +0000

In reply to Steve. Thanks Steve! Appreciate it.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:43:15 +0000

Great job with the redesign… i find myself reading blogs more and more on my phone so the responsive design is a must… Google is starting to give responsive sites love too – good move all around!

By: mike

mike — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:06:01 +0000

In reply to Moshe. i have learnt a lot from Ramsay Taplin .I will post my success soon. am already on the move to start my blog.i have the products alredy, Ramseys advice really turned me on.thanks.nice design

By: Ramsay

Ramsay — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:00:27 +0000

In reply to Melissa Wilson. Hi Melissa. The default WordPress option is for the comments text to take you to the top of the comments because people might want to read through them. Might be worth testing your idea though. Thank you.

By: Melissa Wilson

Melissa Wilson — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:13:37 +0000

I always view your site on my desktop but I checked out your new theme on my iPhone and it looks really good. The one difference that stands out to me on the mobile version’s homepage is that you have to scroll down a bit to find the latest post. Not sure if that’s an issue for you but that’s just my observation.

Also, is there a way to link the “leave a comment” to the bottom of the page instead of having to scroll all the way down? Maybe it was like this on the old design but I really felt like it was an issue with this post because of all the comments. It’s not that I don’t mind scrolling through all the lovely people’s comments, I think it would just be good if it was easier to get to. 🙂

Other than that, very nice.

By: Ramsay

Ramsay — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 05:24:23 +0000

In reply to Vicky.

Hi Vicky.

Thanks so much for the feedback. Very helpful.

The menu items do stay highlighted when you’re on that page. What browser are you using? Works for me in Chrome and FF and Safari.

The HelloBar is a bit annoying. They just convert so well! I’ve set it to open in the same window and not scroll anymore. See how that goes.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:45:04 +0000

UX hat on, a few things other people haven’t pointed out:
Your navigation doesn’t signal which part of the site you’re on. If you’re in the ‘read my blog’ section, the navigation for that bit should be yellow and the arrow as an active link. (WP is a pain for a lot of the nesting stuff, I know).

Hover underlines are hard to do well: the general rule seems to be have them on both normal and hover states or not at all (just change the colour). There’s loads of different ways to make it work with CSS and the like, Medium did an extensive investigation into how to make links look nicer, google it for their result.

Finally, maybe it’s just gone in, but the ‘start a wordpress blog’ sticky ad at the top of the page looked to me everything like an ad (clicking on it brought up a popup which my browser blocks by default), and I CAN’T GET RID OF IT. It’s not styled like the rest of the site either. To be honest, it puts me off reading. I guess you’re doing this for testing but at least make it sound as if it’s still your site. Urrgh, pet peeve.