Clarification and eating crow
I’d like to apologize profusely to the owners of A NEWT ONE for not being more clear in my latest latest design review. It was not my intention to say that your blog’s design was poor. I think the site actually has a lot going for it, but that it is not living up to it’s potential due to some structural issues.
While the list of suggestions I had seems long, it’s not as bad as it looks. Most of the suggestion I had could be enacted without visibly changing much. The site would visibly look very similar to how it does now, but load time would be noticeably reduced.
I use the Web Page Analyzer for all load time estimates. This has in the past been very reliable and consistent in it’s estimates. It does however, seem to be a little flaky today. I reran the estimates for the site, and they came back noticeably better (about 20% better), though still not good. It is currently showing estimates of 494.24 for dial-up, 164.27 for DSL, and 31.24 for T1. This coincides closely with my personal experience on this site.
I’d also like to request that anyone who read this review please re-read it in a few minutes. Several sections of my post don’t seem to have posted properly, and I’m in the process of correcting them as well as the revised load times.
Update:
The review is now fixed, and this correction has been track-backed to all sources that the original was.
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Look. Your comments were certainly not without merit…..and I can certainly take constructive criticism. I just didn’t like the way that you dressed my site down in public and I trip over your critique checking my technorati stats.
That being said, I eliminated many images and scripts and the page loads much faster.
Thank You.
Comment by A Newt One — March 19, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
Very poorly handled on my part. I normally go through an extensive checking process before posting these, which almost always includes contacting the site owner, and possibly the designer (if it’s not the same person). I got ahead of myself. You wouldn’t know it from my behavior today, but I am a professional designer. It wasn’t ready to be posted when it was, and I have no excuse.
Comment by HDW — March 19, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
I thought you might want to know that A Newt One has been redesigned and streamlined. I think you will find that the new design is far more user friendly. It is much easier to hop around from place to place without excessive scrolling. Finding what you are looking for is much easier.
Comment by A Newt One — March 25, 2007 @ 11:22 am