Welcome To The New Movie Blog
Posted by John Campeaon 22. 01. 2009in News Chat
Hey there folks. Well, as you can see we’ve done some major upgrades around here at The Movie Blog.
The upgrades aren’t just limited to the design either. We’ve got a whole new back end, a whole new server system and some brand new functionality (guess what… the comments work again) and some other cool little things that you’ll notice as time goes on.
We’ve still got a couple of little bugs to work out and fix, but we’ll do that on the fly. I hope you enjoy the new site.
Special kudos to Rob Heath for the design and to the immortal Pia for the backend work (why did that sound dirty?).
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Woot! I am just glad to see the design up. I hope people appreciate it.
Love the new layout, but where can I find the movie commentaries on this new lay out?
Looks great man!
looks better than the last design, and the one before that, and…
good job
Looking good, man. Very nice layout.
Looks good! And yay! Twitter!
slick looking. Taking a website class right now myself. The other site was good enough…easy to navigate and everything. This adds the icing on the cake tho. Much purtier!
holy fuckin’ sexy !!!
Love it !!!!
Its great to see that regardles of the complications you had a cuple of weeks ago ,you keep moving the site forward. Thats inpiring, congratulations.
Nice!
Ah, leaving comments again is a good feeling.
I’m liking the look to the site.
Definitely glad to see the comments working again. And so far loving the new look. I feel more sophisticated just being at the site now :)
BY THE LORDS OF KOBOL! SO SAY WE ALL!!!! Finally the site is alive again!
Awesome, man. Just awesome!
2 thumbs up!
Well, not better than the last one.
What do you mean by new back end, this is still wordpress, as you can see at the url and comments…
sexy new look
Finally! Thank fuck! Yay!
Looks great!
Great – but looks like the ‘stub’ site – or is the stub site stealing from you – cant work out between the 2 sites anymore!
Very nice look. Does this website update promise good things in tmb’s future? Why else bother doing it =)
I like the design but not that much colors ( title and links) and typography … anyway it looks really nice
John,
Nice, I like it. New back end? Are you off of WordPress now?
And about time you got your sorry ass on Twitter. :-)
Vic
Nice site guys. I love the new look.
Everyone involved did a wonderful job.
love the new look. glad comments are back on.
I have been SOOOOOOOO bored at work with out the ability to comment here. I feel like I have been liberated.
how do you setup the avatars?
…and on the 7th day, The Movie Blog was born!
Looking forward to this. :)
Great layout.
One thing however that I’m not really sure if anybody else is experiencing this, but the flash animation at the top that displays the headlines keeps on resizing itself depending on what it is displaying and that has for effect to be moving around constantly what is below it, making it really annoying as while you’re reading, the text and everything else will just move down a bit, then eventually move back up a bit, rinse and repeat.
Except for that, great job.
John – It looks good! Here are a few comments/suggestions:
1. Logo: It would be great if the logo linked to the homepage.
2. Text: The white text on grey will be difficult for many users to. Reverse type generally causes too much visual tension, which creates eye fatigue. Black text on white background is much easier for users to read.
3. Reply to Comments: If you’re using WordPress 2.7, it would be great if you could add the new feature that lets you reply to individual comments (within each person’s comment). It’s easy to implement in your theme.
Overall, it’s a pretty solid design though.
The design looks fantastic. Great colors.
John,
The new website looks great! Nice design.
Cool website John.
AWESOME,GREAT DESIGN!
For some reason I totally thought I had gone to Screen Rant instead of TMB. I don’t know, something about the new dark tones. Weird.
But good design.
Nice design. Looking forward to seeing the growth of TMB in the future.
Looks good. Red curtains are extremely obvious. But its nice and slick.
I really like the new design, and glad the comments are up and running again.
I like it. My dial-up connection lets me on no problem :)
Hey John, like the new design. I think it’s an upgrade over your last version for sure.
I think from a usability standpoint though, you gotta change the colors of the fonts. White text on dark backgrounds is killer, and the eyestrain reading this site will be higher than before, especially the yellow on the grey.
You should check out http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php#specify for luminosity contrast ratios. It lets you know if your contrast is acceptable or not, and the higher the better I find when it comes to a blog…
Personally I prefer light text on a dark background (as long as it’s not stark white on black). Sites with white backgrounds and black text give me a headache.
Vic
Looking cool!
I too am having issues with the flash player at the top resizing and shifting around between each different news article. I would lose the whole thing all together. Not sure why it needs to be there since all of its features are just below in the body.
I also agree about the white font on dark background. Kills the eyes!
great job.
Glad to see comments are working again :)
hey you know the home page of the website goes up and down it makes it a littl hard to read stuff sometimes
Damn! Now i have to dress up whenever i sit at my computer in order to feel like i belong…
New design… John is more active again… Is the Nagy far behind????
site looks good to me but how do you post an avatar?
Gravatar.com
Groovy dudes. Looks better than oscar.com
Hey John, your blog’s new layout is awesome! I think I’d be posting more comments now. :)
I think it’s better to read black text on a white background.
nice theme. Download from wordpress.org? Can you tell me download link.Thank you. johnhoma