kottke.org redesign, 2012 version. ⇒
6 March 2012, late morning
My favourite site on the Internet has redesigned. He even created a mirror of his site on Tumblr. What? (The only thing I dislike about the redesign are the share buttons: those things are the worse.) One of the focuses of his redesign was improving the way the site looks on mobile devices. When I originally created this site, I did so on an iBook with a 1024×768 display. At the time I also had fond memories of my PowerBook 5300cs with a 640×468 display. Now in 2012, the site actually looks quite good on the iPhone and the iPad. (With the exception of the header on the iPhone, where the links are too small.) I haven’t touched the design here in so long that I still have hacks to make sure the site is centred in IE5. For serious. I need to tidy things up here, at some point.
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I feel the same way about those share buttons. Useless, but without them his side column is basically all ads. Your site was ahead of its time, man. I think you’re right about the one column approach, whenever I get a chance I’m going to one-column up my site too.
by D on March 6 2012, 1:02 pm #
Do it! I think most sites don’t need more than one column, especially blogs. I feel like that two column layout—like Kottke’s—is almost a cliché now.
by Ramanan on March 6 2012, 1:50 pm #