Monday, July 19, 2010

A Much Needed Redesign

I started this blog on a whim, as an experiment. I had no idea how fulfilling and fun it would become, and how much work I would pour into it. Over the last few months The Vino File has grown considerably in readership, interaction, all of those things that make the blog fun. But there has been a big problem. I feel like the scrawny, homely kid who is completely unaware that puberty has done good things for them. I was comfortable in my Cherokee jeans and teal sweatshirt. But good thing for me I have friends who would outright tell me, 'the blog template you are using looks outdated and stank.'

I am not artistic. I am not visually creative. I am not gifted when it comes to shapes, colors, fonts, nor obviously photography. But I do have great friends who have more talents than I. Today the long overdue redesign of The Vino File goes live, with a simpler, more modern, more individualized look and feel. A HUGE thank you goes to my lifelong friend Peter Walker for putting in the hours to make this happen.

For those of you who are reading this through a feed reader please for today click through and check out the changes. Let me know what you think, unless you do not like it and then I probably don't really want to know. And for those who have no idea what the blog used to look like, consider yourselves lucky.

7 comments:

  1. I dig the new style man! The file folders with the wine stain is a great touch. That is one big ass twitter button though, not that it's a bad thing

    Cheers
    Brian
    norcalwingman
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  2. Ha ha, that Twitter button IS huge. It looks a lot smaller on my Mac. I can size it down if you'd like ;)
    P
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  3. great design. I think we talked about this a little while stuck on the highway for two hours outside of Seattle :)

    Desperately need to do it myself, but get caught up in writing over taking that time to make changes.

    Joe @suburbanwino
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  4. I like it, but like Brian said, that's one huge Twitter button. Also, and maybe it's just on my Dell laptop, the header image is ginormous and kind of distracts from the posts underneath it. I love how clean everything is though, props to you!
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  5. Thanks everyone. General conscensus seems to be people like it, and stuff is big.... Go ahead and size the twitter button down a little Pete, if you have a chance.
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  6. The site looks great after the redesign. Well worth it, I think.
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  7. Thanks Amanda. It's easy for me to say that it was worth it, I basically just barked my desires.
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