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December 27, 2004
Lookin fine wit yo bad ass self...
Give Drew props for his redesign of the Rocketboom main page. It used to have the layout of a text blog. Site navigation was in a narrow column to the left, while content sat in a column offset to the right. This works well if you're scanning lines of text, but didn't work so well when the content was spatially static like video.
With the new layout, the video is front and center with thumbnail links underneath. (Love the thumbnails!) It just makes sense. I hope the archives end up looking exactly like this.
Or maybe not exactly. I wonder what it'd look like if he replaced the "previous | next" text links with image links instead. Or maybe after about five minutes in Photoshop, I don't have to wonder at all:
Kinda works, kinda doesn't. All the attention gained by placing the day's video in the center is chipped away by the size of the previous and next vidcaps. I'll email Andrew and see what he thinks. I hope he doesn't mind that I'm playing with his schtuff. ;)
By the way, check out the dance dance revolution clip in the middle of the r-b christmas montage. Cracked me up.
Posted by yatta at December 27, 2004 8:21 PM
Comments
oh man, i got all excited that this was the actual new design. :-)
Posted by: Chuck Olsen at December 29, 2004 5:37 AM
it is! thanks for the great idea Kenyatta! wow, that would have cost someone else big bucks i feel. this will make an ideal layout for the indv. archive pages.
Posted by: drew at December 31, 2004 8:41 PM