Brian Alvey

This is not a redesign of my blog

79 days ago

Really, it's my blog's first ever design.

My original blog at alvey.weblogsinc.com was just another Weblogs, Inc. subdomain site in the standard maroon and grey with rounded corners look I gave them all. You could call that one WIN Mark I.

Later on when I did the designs for Cinematical and TV Squad, we gave the old subdomain blogs a very simple variation on those looks with just a green logo. Up until last week, my blog looked a lot like The RSS Weblog still does today -- WIN Mark II. So my site was sharing a design with a bunch of blogs that were retired nearly two years ago!

I wanted my blog to tell people more about me and do a better job of pointing readers to the many projects I'm involved in or ones my friends are doing which I endorse. Now it does. It was designed by a great designer we're working with named Kyle and it runs on our Crowd Fusion platform, of course.

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Craig Wood 79 days ago

Thanks for the Wikirage Button.
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Matt 79 days ago

Looks great!
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Rick Marshall 79 days ago

Looks good!
Maybe I should have waited on doing my redesign over at MindPollution until I could get one of these new, snazzy layouts...
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Brian Alvey 78 days ago

MindPollution looks great just like it is!
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Dave T. 78 days ago

Yeah, this is really slick. Good stuff.
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Dorie 78 days ago

I like the handy "recent comments" list that popped up after I validated my own comment. Effective at getting us back to read more!
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Jim S. 78 days ago

I like how easy it is to access your project sites. Very interesting sites
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karol 77 days ago

the future of "publishing" indeed...hey brian this puts frankensite to shame...
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Russ Rogers 51 days ago

I like the design. It has similar features as ComicMix, which I'm familiar with. Here's something.
Here's a note: I like that I can use some HTML tags in comments. But I've had to figure out how to add bold and italics. And that extra typing is a pain. I still don't know how to do an a (href)> tag. Although I think I might give it a whirl sometime soon.

It would be cool if the comments section had little buttons for bold, italics and links just above the comments panel, so all I had to do was highlight and tag, like a mini-HTML editor. I tried to find a Firefox extension that would let me do that. I LOVE the fact that Firefox spell checks my comments as I type them. I can't even begin to tell you how much smarter that has made me seem!
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Russ Rogers 51 days ago

See? I forgot to close my stupid Italics Tag! Yuck! *shrugs* Oh well. It just labels me as such a newb.
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Brian Alvey 51 days ago

Yes, but at least our system was smart enough to close the italics at the end of your comment and not let the whole rest of the page -- and my sidebar -- turn into italics!
We'll see about adding helper buttons. It might happen. Not soon, but eventually. Thanks!
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Anonymous 73 days ago

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