Design Float “Refreshes”

Posted November 27, 2007

It’s been about a month since my last update, and as you can see I’ve been hard at work. I launched a completely refreshed layout last night in an attempt to make Design Float a cleaner and more usable website. The new two column layout makes more room for content and eases the cluttered feeling that the previous three column design created. I’ve removed almost all of the Adsense and we’re on our way to taking all advertising in house. You’ll also notice that entry summaries now default to hidden allowing me to fit more entries per page and putting more weight on quality written headlines.

Finally, many of you may have experienced horribly slow load times at certain times during the last month or two. Our traffic continues to grow steadily and the site has been receiving huge bombardments of Stumbleupon visitors recently. I’ve made some small database tweaks that should help ease the loads on the server, so hopefully you’ll find this version a little quicker as well.

Please feel free to share your thoughts, ideas, love and hate for the refreshed layout and the various new features in place and, as always, don’t hesitate to make suggestions!

13 Comments So Far

  1. Travis on November 27th, 2007

    Huge improvement in speed. Nice, tight tweaks. Looks great!

  2. Andrew on November 27th, 2007

    Thanks Travis, glad you’re noticing the improvements in speed!

  3. 4cronym on November 27th, 2007

    Definitely a lot of improvements compared to the last version. Much lighter and cleaner, I like it. I can see some functionality for AJAX that you could use in future versions as well.

  4. Andrew on November 27th, 2007

    4cronym, please feel free to share any ideas for future versions :)

  5. Penguin Bob on November 27th, 2007

    Is there a way to turn the summaries back on?

  6. Andrew on November 27th, 2007

    I’ll look into making it an option. If anyone knows how to store something like that in a cookie so that users can chose whether they are hidden or shown, let me know…

  7. f0vela on November 27th, 2007

    Really great!! the speed increased and the layout looks very clean.

    Great job!

  8. mmolai on November 27th, 2007

    Keep up the good work Andrew, summaries would be nice
    Now we need some more users
    users=stories=floats

  9. XtiaN on November 28th, 2007

    Nice ^^

    I like your clean n minimalis design

  10. vicky on December 4th, 2007

    This is really cool stuff

  11. Andrew on December 4th, 2007

    Thanks for all the compliments guys!

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