One pet peeve I had since the last version – was that clicking on the image did not take you to the page where you could comment on it. Perhaps making the entire image clickable to the previous photo seems to be the best way, I for one don’t like it. I would’nt mind seeing some controls for next, previous, index – or whatever. Even if they are tiny, or something. I don’t like that I have to click on the name of the photo. I do like the new comments link.

Hey, Colin, thanks for the suggestion! I think you have a great point, and as soon as I’m done implementing the new design I’ll work on a better way of navigating through the photos. I just changed it so that the latest photo links to the comments page, but all other photos (i.e. photos on the individual archive pages) will link to the previous photo.

Ugh, I’ve just noticed an extremely irritating, and seemingly unfixable, glitch in Safari. The page’s background image is centered, and with Safari it gets mis-aligned by 1px depending on whether or not the page scrolls or not. GR! :( Too late now.

wow adam, this is really great, a job well done! I prefer this design over the previous!

whoa cool. your right, it is colorful, and I like it aswell. I second Colins suggestion in being able to click the photo to bring the user to the comments. awesome redesign!

Thanks, stijn and daniel! Launching a redesign can be very nerve-racking, so it’s great to get positive feedback! :) In fact, the more I work on the site, the more I like it myself.

Sorry again to anyone that’s on a Mac (including me, part of the time.) I really wish that glitch did not exist. :( It ruins the entire look of the site.

I’m using Safari Adam and it looks great from here :) I think the best feature of the design is the menu, very clickable indeed. Great work as always!

Thanks, Andy! But don’t you see that 1px black line down the right side of the sidebar? If you switch between a page that scrolls and a page that doesn’t, it should show up on one or the other.

Anyways, I’m off to bed. It’s 5 AM here, and I need some sleep! I’ll do the Get the Look pages tomorrow. Everything else is done. :)

Adam, I did not really even notice the 1px line that you mentioned until you pointd it out. I had to actually open your site with Camino to see if what I saw was what you were talking about. I don’t think it ruins the site by any means. New design looks good. Keep up the good work.

Very nice.

I like both the new and old design. My favorite feature of the old design was the rounded lower-left corner, but I bet that interfered with the composition of some of your photos. Your new menu is quite attractive and usable.

Great use of light in the chair photo. Will you reveal your secret and tell us whether you used available light or set up your own light sources?

Hey Adam, some comments about that 1px-shift background bug… I’ve been dealing with that for awhile now and here are some ideas you can try to counter it:

- Make sure your background image is not wider than 800px, if it is, then it goofs up the viewport Safari relies on to display page information.

- Instead of having a large background image on the body tag, put it on a large #frame div or something. Because you have shadows on either side, this is what I suggest: A div that is 50px wider than the main content of you page (enough for 25px gutters on either side, approximately equal to the white stripe of padding you have on either side, plus the shadow). Stick the background in that (about 780px across, PNG for shadow transparency), stick a #fff background-color in the #frame div, and then pad it accordingly so you can accomplish a similar effect to what you have now.

Then on the body tag, put the repeating diagonal line background image (maybe a 20px by 20px square to speed rendering).

If you’ve got any questions, please email me at the addy I put in the form field. Good luck man!

Hey Adam -

Nice work with the redesign. Sudden, but I think you pulled it off nicely. Couple things.

BIG bg image. Effect is nice, but there’s gotta be a bug in there in some browser.

Also the shadowing, especially in the box just under your logo, seems awkward and not realistic. I realize that’s ’cause of how things are lining up and all, but something to think about.

Other than that, I like the new photo title and subject placement, the colors, the menu, and all else, so nice work.

Wahoo! ^_^

Is there a way to go back to the previous post?

Thanks again, everyone, for all of the positive and helpful feedback! I really appreciate you all taking the time to help me put some finishing touches on the new design.

J.D…. the light in the photo was 100% natural, coming from a large sliding glass door just to the left of the chair.

Mike, thank you SO much for all of the great ideas! I’m working to fix the background and have run into a couple problems:

(1) I’ve got the #frame div set up with its PNG background image, but it only repeats until the bottom of the browser window, not until the bottom of the page. Does anyone know how to fix this? Here’s the code:

div#frame { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;
background: url(/images/framebg.png) repeat-y top center; }

(2) On my PC, the dark gray in the footer background image matches that of the frame background image (the footer needs its own so that the sidebar background image doesn’t show through.) But, on my Mac, the gray in the footer is noticeably lighter. Anyone know what’s up with this?

Yeah, Adam, divs with 100% height only fill up their viewport — i.e. the window’s height and width. To get it to stretch you need content to push it down; something tells me you’re using absolute positioning. Abs. positioning doesn’t push the container div out. I’d say have a look through google, there are some fixes out there.

By the way, your site is exactly 100% down the page (it starts at the last pixel) in IE 6 PC.

Sometimes sacrifices have to be made, so I’ve given up on making the old background image work and came up with a new one that I like even more. Thanks again, though, for everyone’s suggestions on how to make the old one work!

One last glitch… in FireFox, the photo on the index page isn’t always linking correctly. If I reload the page, it doesn’t work. But if I go to another page, and then go BACK to the index page, the link all of a sudden works. It’s only in FireFox and it’s very strange. Any ideas?

nice crazy funky design. I don’t think there is such a thing as as 100% hieght in web pages

Great work, Adam!

Brilliant, Adam.

Love the new look adam!

The old layout was cool; this is even better! Kudos!

it is sort of coincidental, that right in july; i took some pictures and one of them was of my laptop and the picture is just exactly like yours.Maybe our photography styles are similar.Incase u want to have a look at my photographs just mail me ! i just dont know how to show my photos on the net.Maybe ,u can help.