Intermission at Work Redesign

[joen05]

Hi everyone, I made some changes to the layout of my site. Please come by and tell me what you think! Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Intermission at Work

[tequilas97]

Site flows pretty well. Ads on the side don't take away from the content itself. I like it. I think the only thing that would help is some sort of a header image.

[joen05]

It's actually really weird.. I have one, but it only shows up sometimes.. like when i refresh sometimes. Does anyone have a solution to this? I'm using blogspot for publishing.

[joen05]

If possible, could you guys test something for me? I've loaded my header onto my server, and it appears to be showing every time. Could you confirm?

[luke1025]

i can see your header image. i basically like the layout of your site, my only real criticism is that there aren't any borders dividing the content. for me having a clean division between your sidebars and blog content would streamline the look a bit more. otherwise, keep up the good work!!

[tarsi210]

Things I Like:

The header is good, post headings and dates are nice, About page is good, ads are off to the side and out of the way.

Things I'm Not Fond Of:

The Subscribe/Stumble/Dig/Delicious/etc crap at the bottom of every single post on the MAIN page is really, really, really distracting and annoys me. On each individual post page, sure, that's fine. But on the main page it really detracts. I'm not about to click on any of those, anyway, unless I click into the post itself, probably.

You have a lot of links to OTHER places, but very few links to YOUR blog. Your Technorati links lead away. Your long list of links to other sites/blogs lead away. Google leads away. Blog Catalog leads away. BlogRush leads away. While this is all fine and good and nice, how about a list of your last 15-20 posts? Links to your categories? Links to your archives? (you do have a block to your archives, but it's clear down on the bottom, after everything else) One of the biggest rules in blogging is to promote YOURSELF first, others second, because you want to grab and keep readers, and the longer they stay on your blog and read your content, the better off you are.

A bit of cleanup and carmelizing of your links and blocks so they don't look haphazard and promoting everyone BUT yourself and I think you'll have it sorted out.