Comments on: Design Spotlight: Pro Blog Design (Again)

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:58:52 +0000

Me too, it's not often you hear of Opera holding things back. Strange to think they even have a fix for IE6 but not Opera!

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:29:59 +0000

There are plenty of sifr alternatives, though I'm not sure which (if any) have all of the features you need. But as long as there's a solution coming *sometime* it's not so bad.

I wonder why the Cufon selection fix doesn't work in Opera…

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:20:52 +0000

Thanks for the review Matt, glad to see it was mostly positive

I agree about the tool tips. They were a last minute addition (literally added them the morning of the post!) and clearly just a bad idea now

You could well be right about the text replacement as well. Cufon (The script I'm using) was simple to set up and worked quite well. You can actually select the text, it just doesn't have a hover/select effect so it's impossible to know unless someone tells you (From the script's site, they have a solution for selecting on every browser bar Opera and they want it to work everywhere before they implement )

The big fail for me with is that it doesn't suppor word-spacing so I couldn't use the font I wanted. If I can find an alternative like SIFr that does support that, I'll definitely swap!

By: Muhammad Siyab

Muhammad Siyab — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:26:53 +0000

I like the new design. It's clean, modern, and, most important of all, usable.

I agree with you on the image-replacement issue though. A simple, usual, non-image headline would do much better.