Comments on: Welcome To Site 7

By: Fin C

Fin C — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:31:00 +0000

Is the title of this post a very obscure reference to HL2’s “Welcome to City 17”?

By: Roy Gatsby

Roy Gatsby — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:31:10 +0000

I love the Responsive design. What did you use to implement it?
A program or did you hard code the whole site?
Great job.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:58:12 +0000

I just noticed that on mobile, the YouTube video for the level editor doesn’t shrink with the rest of the site, so it doubles the actual width of the page.

By: MartinJ

MartinJ — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:54:12 +0000

On Opera, Win7, 1680×1050:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l116/wolfest/tomfrancis_zps016a8c0f.jpg

Notice the “Continued”. It’s not a big issue, you can click on it just fine, but looks messy. Might wanna look into it :)

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:17:55 +0000

Wow. The dynamic resizing down to tiny width is freaking amazing. Seriously the best, fastest, most responsive implementation of that I’ve ever seen. Why is this not everywhere?

Otherwise, looks good. Regret nothing!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:20:17 +0000

I like this new site. It’s slick and cool and it’s got a certain something about that makes it really feel like it belongs in 2013.

By: Niall

Niall — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:43:45 +0000

Tom, thanks for keeping on RSS – it’s my main method of keeping track of everything on t’internet so I’d hate to see it die!

On a design feedback front, the text in the comment boxes doesn’t scale the same as the rest of the page, so right now I’ve made the page text small yet readable but the only way I can tell when I make a typo here is by the red line that Firefox inserts, because I can’t actually make out individual letters. (Ironically, Firefox doesn’t recognise Firefox as a cromulent word…)

By: TooNu

TooNu — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:37:20 +0000

ooh shiny. Hi Tom, good job Tom. See you later Tom

By: TychoCelchuuu

TychoCelchuuu — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:14:55 +0000

Actually that one just worked. I only get the error trying to post comments on your resume, maybe.

By: TychoCelchuuu

TychoCelchuuu — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:14:28 +0000

It won’t let me comment in Opera. It says “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.”

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:36:26 +0000

I love the comment submission button. Just throwing that out there.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:53:16 +0000

Argh! I made that mistake I never make, of leaving out the http://. I promise I haven’t believed www is sufficient since 1997. It actually happened because of the noobification of address bars: if you copy and paste the URL from an address bar, it ‘helpfully’ clips off the vital http:// to make it look cuter or something.

By: Ben Borthwick

Ben Borthwick — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:48:10 +0000

Much better! Cheers Tom – as kARL alluded to, I did at one point think I’d accidentally pressed the shortcut for some sort of Large Print accessibility mode! Much more comfortable now I think (and easier to tell the difference between headings and text.)

Definitely liking the more efficient (not sure if that’s the right word?) use of the space too – your blog has always been the reason I’ve stuck with a three column theme for my own, and every year I get more jealous at how well you’re able to tweak yours and it still works really well.

By: Mickiscoole

Mickiscoole — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:43:39 +0000

New design looks pretty damn awesome.

(Also, the Explaining Things to Assholes link in this article is broken)

By: Lack

Lack — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:20:50 +0000

Overall, I rather like it; the featured articles part especially. And the jacket in your profile shot, I could never pull off black leather, only shades of brown.

Only niggle, don’t care for the drop shadow on the text at the top of the page. Looks a bit messy when combined with the gradient. Okay; I’ll admit that that’s perhaps pedantic point, even for me.

By: Zeddy

Zeddy — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:51:29 +0000

I browse at 1920×1080 and this may be the only website I don’t need to zoom in on.

Good show!

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:50:09 +0000

Cheers guys! Tweaked the font sizes for 1900 – how is it now?

By: kARL

kARL — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:30:40 +0000

16 point font would be awesome, the text is huge and makes me feel like I’m blind as fuck.

Other than that great job. Here is to another year of great content.

By: Ben Borthwick

Ben Borthwick — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:24:28 +0000

Liking the new design – a minor thing though is I feel the main body text is slightly too big reading maximised at 1920×1080 resolution, although if I resize the browser window in any way (even if I have it the full size, just not “maximised” if that makes sense), it’s fine.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:17:58 +0000

Looks pretty damn great.