I've made some changes to my new design. Less shocking red and also a new logo (see below). A huge thanks to Ariel from mEgo, who made the logo for me and created the new color scheme. Thanks Ariel!
Big improvement, but I'm not sold on the green in the dead area. It's a bit too saturated to ignore and really clashes with the boldness of the red. Other than that, very nice. I'll be hopping over from the feed reader more often now.
I like the new logo. Is this a ying yang hint? There is something bad even in Web 2.0, and there was something good in Web 1.0, even during the dot com bubble?
Otis, yes it's yin-yang inspired. I've been wanting to do a yin-yang type logo for ages. But it's not a 1.0 / 2.0 thing :-) More like read/write and the balancing out and harmony that brings to the Web. My stock philosophy, pre Web 2.0 :-)
nice professional logo. now the site looks like a medical site, with all the little gradients and a logo that combines the look of a pill and the R/X mark.
Marcin, I like to think of the bevel&emboss as a classic that nenver goes out of style ;-)
Ray, do you mean make the RSS icons red? Orange is the traditional RSS color, so I'll leave them as is. But you do have a point that the orange and red doesn't necessarily go together. hmmm.
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I like the logo, and the current look of RWW. But there are those Warning messages in the zdnet portion of the sidebar...
Posted by: Andrew | November 30, 2005 2:04 PMBig improvement, but I'm not sold on the green in the dead area. It's a bit too saturated to ignore and really clashes with the boldness of the red. Other than that, very nice. I'll be hopping over from the feed reader more often now.
Posted by: Nick | November 30, 2005 2:09 PMUgh, looks like FeedDigest is down (they power the ZDNet links).
Thanks Andrew and Nick, appreciate your thoughts.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | November 30, 2005 2:21 PMI do feel it's improved...
Posted by: Gabe | November 30, 2005 3:02 PMI like the new logo. Is this a ying yang hint? There is something bad even in Web 2.0, and there was something good in Web 1.0, even during the dot com bubble?
Posted by: Otis Gospodnetic | November 30, 2005 3:16 PMOtis, yes it's yin-yang inspired. I've been wanting to do a yin-yang type logo for ages. But it's not a 1.0 / 2.0 thing :-) More like read/write and the balancing out and harmony that brings to the Web. My stock philosophy, pre Web 2.0 :-)
Posted by: Richard MacManus | November 30, 2005 3:21 PM2 bits of feedback on your new design.
1. I like it!
Posted by: Alex Barnett | November 30, 2005 7:29 PM2...the content font seems tiny. Hard to read...
nice professional logo. now the site looks like a medical site, with all the little gradients and a logo that combines the look of a pill and the R/X mark.
Posted by: Turk | November 30, 2005 8:15 PMI like the logo, but the bevel&emboss effect from the Photoshop is a bit dated ;)
I used it back in 1998 on every site I made to make it look "cool", but I believe it stopped being "cool" before 1999 ;)
Other than that, great work and a pure pleasure to read :)
Posted by: Marcin | December 1, 2005 2:01 AMNice logo, great colors, why don't you apply the same red to the 'RSS' and 'Readers' icons?
Posted by: Ray CHOW | December 1, 2005 5:37 AMFonts, yes I need to enlarge them.
A medical site? :-0 Dr Richard is in the house...
Marcin, I like to think of the bevel&emboss as a classic that nenver goes out of style ;-)
Ray, do you mean make the RSS icons red? Orange is the traditional RSS color, so I'll leave them as is. But you do have a point that the orange and red doesn't necessarily go together. hmmm.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | December 1, 2005 12:57 PMLikin' the new logo, Richard! Very professional. Inspires confidence - although I've had full confidence in you for a while now. ;->
I'm also really liking the talkr - allows me to cook and listen to your blog at the same time - no more burned pasta, which is always nice.
Posted by: liam | December 8, 2005 5:31 PM