Friday, March 7, 2003
Ok, So What Did You Think
Posted by Jason Dunn in "UPDATE" @ 10:36 PM
Our little experiment with the layout is over. What did you think? I increased the number of front-page posts to 15 because now that they're shorter I had the flexibility to do that. What do you think - better? Worse?
I'll let the poll results speak to me, but I'll steal the thunder from some of the people who are waiting to lunge for my throat: I didn't like it very much. Our page already loads pretty fast, and I thought the posts looked too clumped together in this layout. I wanted to try this because so many other sites do it, but for our particular style and community, I don't think it worked very well. The mobile version was pretty ugly too - way more tapping and load time to get to the sub page with the actual story. The front page loaded faster, but I don't think it was worth the trade-off.
Votes and polite comments welcome!
I'll let the poll results speak to me, but I'll steal the thunder from some of the people who are waiting to lunge for my throat: I didn't like it very much. Our page already loads pretty fast, and I thought the posts looked too clumped together in this layout. I wanted to try this because so many other sites do it, but for our particular style and community, I don't think it worked very well. The mobile version was pretty ugly too - way more tapping and load time to get to the sub page with the actual story. The front page loaded faster, but I don't think it was worth the trade-off.
Votes and polite comments welcome!
