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DIY Drones site redesign---thanks for your patience while we sort this out

Posted by Chris Anderson on February 8, 2011 at 10:30pm

Okay, that didn't work quite the way we planned. The site redesign, which we did with Ning, has got some glitches and fugly stuff. I know. Stay tuned while we sort it out. Sorry. These things happen.

 

UPDATE: I think we've sorted most of the gremlins out now. I'm still not in love with some of the fonts, but at least it's functional and arguably better than what we had before now.

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    Chris Anderson February 13, 2011 at 11:18am

    Scotty: I'm afraid that sort of browser detection would require me to get way into the code, which is something I don't want to/can't do (that's why we're on a hosted site, so I don't have to fiddle with any code that doesn't fly planes). But Ning will be offering a mobile-optimized site soon, which should autodetect phones. No idea what it will do with the flash player, however.

     

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    Chris Anderson February 10, 2011 at 8:43pm

    Well, we're making some progress. We fixed those transparent backgrounds to the menus, and I've got the links back to underlined black. Now I need to tweak some fonts and some header graphics that aren't lining up properly.

     

    And I finally got rid of that awful picture on the front page and replaced it with featured photos!

  • DougB February 10, 2011 at 8:16pm
    I would agree that it is more difficult to read now with the blue titles. It would be cool if each member could customize there own colors.
  • Mauro Rodriguez February 10, 2011 at 7:44pm
    Nice design... but for me its difficult to read, I think that the black leters and grey background was better to read.. sky-blue letters are not friendly, maybe a strong blue can be better ;)
  • Ryan Fraser February 10, 2011 at 9:28am

    I would like to report that it is WAAAAYYY better.

    In safari with the old site would take up to 45 seconds for my Quad core i7 3.06 to lanch all the flash and stuff.

    Now it's instant. don't know what you did but it loads much faster.  All my menus work....

    Cheers

  • hamish February 10, 2011 at 12:36am

    mq-9 tail points up mq-1 tail points down.

     

    so yeah

  • Zach Bayne February 9, 2011 at 6:49pm
    isnt it the MQ-9 not the MQ-1 :P
  • Benjamin February 9, 2011 at 12:30pm

    I really dislike the font of the news titles. Why use a serif font while every other fonts don't have serif?

     

    Except this detail, I like the other changes.

  • Jack Crossfire February 9, 2011 at 12:21pm

    Personally think the new, monochrome look sweeping all the world's websites is horrible.  Giving all the text, backgrounds, & widgets exactly the same background color makes it really hard to find anything except for maybe 1 story the designer wants you to see, but it probably makes more sense if you're used to iPhones.

     

     

  • hamish February 9, 2011 at 10:57am
    blimpduino's too slow, didn't make it to the front page  :P
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