New Format

10 comments to New Format

• Ken Adams, Amphib Sailor

  23 February 2010 at 22:54 · Reply

  “Loads Fast” and “Has Javascript from 10 different sources” are kinds mutually exclusive conditions. It took me a good 5-6 seconds to load this page.

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• Marvin

  24 February 2010 at 01:07 · Reply

  Loaded quick for me..

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• John Carmichael

  24 February 2010 at 10:39 · Reply

  The site looks good. It did take about 4-5 seconds to load for me. And even though clean, I think you have to have some sort of graphic (like your E-2) for your title banner (creates good branding).

  ~ JC

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• Shadow

  24 February 2010 at 11:13 · Reply

  Mission accomplished, radical reduction in load time.

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• Steeljawscribe

  24 February 2010 at 13:46 · Reply

  John: Thanks and concur — that’s Job#1 for work this weekend (requires some fumbling around with Photoshop as I want to update the old banner too…)

  All: Re. load times — 4-5 secs seems like an improvement over what i have seen (and what some others) have passed about excessive load times with the prior format (+30 secs for a full load depending on browser and network). The 10 JS source is tied to the slide show at the top — right now rotating through 10 FF post/slides. Am planning on finetuning that as well — just wanted to see the capability in action first. Any thoughts on the “magazine”-type format in general as it is a bit of departure from the “traditional” blog format?

  Much appreciate the feedback!

  w/r, SJS

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• Rich

  24 February 2010 at 19:55 · Reply

  I’d say you succeeded in your goals.
  Personally, I didn’t care how long it took
  to load before-the content was what mattered
  and is always worth waiting for.
  Thanks for being here from a grateful fan!
  Rich

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• claudio

  24 February 2010 at 21:26 · Reply

  I like it. Seems that the writing/descriptions on each post dissapear when I scroll past them. Pic stays on, when cursor moves away, info reappears. Like the “subject” filters at the top.

  claudio

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• Matthew

  25 February 2010 at 01:30 · Reply

  It loaded very quick for me. However it seems that the home page is way too busy. Not very streamlined or inviting to me. The white background is a bit too bright for the bold black text in my opinion. Maybe it is the time, 0030, that I am viewing it that affects my eyes but the whole thing is just tiring. Sorry if that is not very encouraging. I know it takes quite a while to redesign a site.

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• Andy (JADAA)

  25 February 2010 at 18:16 · Reply

  Matthew has a point, you may want to lower the lumens on the background. The FlightDeck Friday scroll along the top is a bit confusing; it may be a place to put a possible link to Navy & Marine Corps news feeds, maybe. The text boxes along the left side need more text to hook the reader.

  Very minor quibbles, but hey, you asked.

  VR,
  Andy

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• Glenn Mark Cassel AMH1(AW) USN Ret.

  27 February 2010 at 20:12 · Reply

  Nice one ya got here!

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