Comments on: Site’s Nearly Done

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:01:57 +0000

Spambots are showing up on various posts. There’s even one pretending to be a Christian bubbling over with joy on “90-Day Jane.”

By: Polly

Polly — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:41:54 +0000

I was going to suggest you do exactly what you’ve done with the recent comments section. It’s much clearer, now.

By: vegatee

vegatee — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:14:52 +0000

Since no one else mentioned this, I’m going to assume it’s only happening to me. Ever since the new interface was implemented, the site hangs (sometimes for as long as 4 minutes – which is how long it took at this writing to load) on something called “sharethis.com”. My browser shows that it is waiting on, or loading, this thing and proceeds to do so for what seems like an eternity. It’s something new for me (I visit your site daily, a few times per day and this never happened before).

Sigh…

By: Jodie

Jodie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:38:28 +0000

Duh. Use your calendar photo That way when students and potential employers google you, they get a better surprise than atheism.

By: NYCatheist

NYCatheist — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:57:27 +0000

I’m with Epistaxis, capitalizing “atheist” in the FAQ looks silly. Do we capitalize “theist”? It plays into the whole “atheism is just another religions” idea. Also I don’t think I have seen Hemant capitalize it in any of his posts.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:26:24 +0000

Same basic complaints. I’m not a huge fan of the red-on-brown color scheme, and the header is quite choppy..

By: Mriana

Mriana — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:46:47 +0000

I like the new look.

By: Richard Hendricks

Richard Hendricks — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:41:51 +0000

Could you add links to the next/previous blog entry at the bottom of each entry? That way we can red & click through to the next one when on the website.

By: Gullwatcher

Gullwatcher — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:19:58 +0000

I just noticed that the copyright notice is at the top of the page and off to the right on IE7 (it’s at the bottom of the page in Firefox and Safari).

Someone mentioned in another thread (and I agree) that there needs to be some more separation between “permalink” and “comments”, either more space or a slash or something so they don’t look like it’s a single item.

At the top, the width of the button bar, the logo, and the main body are all different, and the left edge of the logo doesn’t line up. They should be spaced so they all line up in some fashion (web design 101! I loved that class…)

I also agree that the colors are a bit severe and less inviting than they could be.

I know how much work it is to redesign a website. I hope our comments aren’t too discouraging…

By: Elles

Elles — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:56:09 +0000

It’s amazing. Methinks it is well done.