Simian Design

Woody does!

Okay, two things.

1. Read the post again. I'm looking for something more than "Me! Gimme one!" Tell me something, or at least contribute. Anything. Tell a joke. Tell me some news. Give me your fucking life history. It's not that hard.

2. Don't put your email in the post. Spam-bots are only going to scrape it. I have your email, you don't need to post it. I've removed you posted email Woody to save you from spam.

I got one, :)

Alright then ... I'll beg.

Joke:
You know your a redneck if you go to a family reunion looking for a girlfriend.

I didn't comment the return to the old design yet, it looks I'm getting an opportunity to do it now.

I think your new layout was a nice try, although you tried changing too many things at a time. You went for a dark color scheme: have you tried before some lighter colors?

Likewise, I like the pattern approach on the old (current) design. I even remember a pattern selector. Perhaps you should keep the idea of a patterned background too.

A new design may keep the best from the previous one and merge it with some novel elements. Much of your old design is übercool. Stopdesign followed this logic: its last redesign is quite conservative, but contains little improvements everywhere. Idem for SimpleBits.

My two cents.

I'll probably post on the return later, and then I'll move this comment there.

The pattern approach I do like. The pattern selector is just being converted to PHP. It was in ColdFusion before.

The main reason I switched back is that it just wasn't working for me. And I still had a lot of the basic template items from before. It was something someone said about polishing rather than redesigning. So I think I'll try that. Much like what SimpleBits did. polish until it hurts. Every little thing perfect. That's the goal.

Longer-term, I want to be able to swtich layouts. The structure between these two isn't drastic, so shouldn't be difficult.

Thanks for the comments François. Just so I'm clear, when you're talking about the "old" design, you're talking the pattern-one. The newer old would be the darker, full-screen version. I call this v7, and the full-screen v8. (there was a quick, gross in-between that lasted maybe three day. That no longer gets a version number out of spite.

I am an artist/photographer ex-freestyle climber of things high ...I say ex climber because I now have a chronic pain condition and a frozen right shoulder which unfortunately probably prevents my climbing ever again ..
As an artist I would find a G-Mail and it's large capacity storage space account most useful .
I would be most happy to express my gratitude by providing a print of any of my works or I would gladly create a work of your choice if you find what I do entertaining .. you can view my works at http://buildingclimber.deviantart.com/

That's it, you nailed it (on the design I was addressing as well as on polish vs. redesign).

Recently redesigned : http://www.hivelogic.com/

I think Meyer maintains a list of redesigns. I love browsing over other redesigns when I myself think of altering my site's layout.

Hello,

I'm Gary from Mediaburn.net and the Mediaburn Radio Weblog. I got here from a link on the Forward blog.

I could use the account! I'm looking for another e-mail account to back up some stuff. I'm happy to give you a link on Mediaburn in return!

Ummm...please, please. I am a wanna-be geek just starting in the land of geekdom. I am learning as much as I can about CSS and web design but have a LONG way to go. I have made my first attempt at a webpage and blog but now that I look around the net it looks pretty amateurish and I see a lot of mistakes. That is about it. I'll keep reading your site and learning as much as I can. Thanks.

i need some gmail
my mail scatters in the wind
will you invite me?

design is a good idea

Hello to you all and especially Tony.
I am Terry Maloney's son, as you may,
or may not have guess from our last name.
I would like to have a GMail account if
you would be willing to give me an invite.

I am an amateur aspiring author and a sometimes-artist in my free time.
(Art account: http://mm-dreamer.deviantart.com)
As such, a GMail account would be of great
use to me for storing text and images files,
which I could later send to a publisher.

I would understand if you did not wish
to give me said invite, and would
understand if you decided not to.
You may consider giving two invites
to two from the same family to be unfair,
greedy, pretentious or unnecessary,
but I would appreciate having one.

As always, please do as you wish.

Humbly and Sincerly yours,
~~Micah R. Maloney

P.S. I would also like to say great Blog!
Nice theme and very userfriendly.

Here is a joke to leave you with:

" Q: Hear about the terrorist that hijacked a 747 full of lawyers?

A: He threatened to release one every hour if his demands weren't met."

Signing off.

Oh, this may be bringing some people here expressly to request invites: http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001313.html

Yeah, I saw that. At this point though I figure anyone who has been an active reader off this site would have already mentioned something, or asked. So it's not bothering me so much, as long as they try and contribute something. Who knows, maybe I'll get a couple of new readers.

New reader here.

I was sort of indifferent when I first heard about Gmail, but now I really want one.

Hey, compared to the others I was sort of indifferent to Google when I first used it, but now I live by it every day!

Yes, Osprey was the site which brought me here, but I'm constantly looking for well-designed and interesting sites as I'm in the process of designing one for myself. And, yes, the Google invitation did catch my eye.

But I'm in North Yorkshire on holiday, rained in and miserable, and need relief... Whatever happened to summer?

Oh, yes, and you have a new reader - I've bookmarked your site to my Daily Blogs reading.

Hello Tony,
Just coming in from Foreword...
I'm a designer living in Rome, Italy, though I'm originally from Brazil. Here are some quotes, links and other paraphernalia (including one of my favorite words):

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.� -T.S. Eliot

"Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" -William Blake

"Criticism and commentary, if they are not in the service of enthusiasm and ecstasy, are idle at best, destructive at worst. Your work, as Ruskin says, should be the praise of what you love."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Link:
http://www.harpers.org/TheOilWeEat.html

- One of the best restaurants in Rome for typical cucina Romana, cheap: Da Enzo, at Via dei Vascellari 29 in Trastevere (tel: (06) 581 8355)

- de·fen·es·trate
To throw out of a window.

Cheers.

PS: Yes, I'd like an invite please!

Would you please send me an invite? Thank you!