It’s been over two years since the last site redesign here at Upgrade: Travel Better, and it’s about time for a new look. (That is, unless you were one of the masochists who really liked the orange links… what was I thinking?!)
The site is still a work in progress. The upgrade broke a few things that were working before, and which sandbox-testing didn’t uncover. So there will be more tinkering in days and weeks to come.
In any case, I hope you’ll like the new layout, and I welcome your feedback. Feel free to hit the comments with your thoughts.
Finally, let me take this opportunity to thank you for reading the site, and for the comments, e-mails, backlinks, and support. Readers have left 5007 comments on the site over the last three+ years (not counting the literally hundreds of thousands of spam comments, of course…) And, in keeping up the numbers game, this is my 1018th post. I look forward to writing thousands more, and hope you’ll stick around for them. Thanks again for reading U:TB.
Back to regular posting soon.
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December 30th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Congrats on the redesign!
mp/m
December 30th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Well, given that I mostly read the RSS feed, the orange links didn’t bother me
December 30th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Very nice. I like the new color scheme.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
…but what will it look like on the Kindle? :p
Seriously, it looks great. Nice job. What’s up with that rotating cloud, on the bottom, though? Cool, but freaky.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Nice redesign.
December 31st, 2008 at 12:49 am
It looks great to me. I’m with SA though – that rotating cloud is weird. I’m not sure how to actually find a category that way. Other than that, it’s nice and clean.
December 31st, 2008 at 2:11 am
Having recently completed a major redesign of my blog, I can relate to what you must have gone through. But the result was great – looks excellent.
December 31st, 2008 at 2:22 am
Good to change for better. Happy 2009 with your new design!
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December 31st, 2008 at 8:38 am
I like it, but I there’s something about that tag clod (as per Cranky). There are so many links that part of the cloud comes up a one big clump of unreadable mess.
Though…it won’t stop me from reading. Everything else looks good.
Old Site = too busy…
December 31st, 2008 at 10:23 am
I like it! congratulations on the new design.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Thank you all for your comments! SA, Cranky, and g.twilley, I’ve been wrestling with the tag cloud, and I think it’s getting closer. I agree that it was too much of a mass o’ links, but my efforts to reduce the density didn’t work until this evening. Still not quite where I want it, but: baby steps. Ahh, coding!
January 6th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Great Design! I love the tag cloud. I think I should also include one on my website for Local Tour Guides: tourmandu.com
I am a fan of tag cloud surfing
January 11th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Great new look!