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Links: New Redesign Edition

June 14, 2008 by Lazy Man 15 Comments

You may have noticed that Lazy Man and Money and Lazy Man and Health have undergone a redesign recently. I have gotten some excellent feedback thus far, including my suggests on how to improve it further. I can always use more feedback, so if you have an idea, please consider sharing it with me via this web form. I hope to implement many of the subtle changes over the next week or two. In the meantime, here are a few of the changes and why I made them:

  • Narrower content area – A person who I respect quite a bit noted that my content was very wide and it gave him headaches. I had never thought about this, but this is why newspapers have their typeface in narrower columns.
  • Logo – I felt it was time to have a logo, something eye-catching for new visitors. I remembered that one of my readers and frequent commenters is a graphic artist. So I sent Amber Yount of Lost Spots an e-mail to send her some business. We worked on an idea that Plonkee contributed and the rest is history.
  • Cleaner Overall Design – I lack the artistic talent to make nicely rounded corners and things of that nature. However, I feel like everything on the site now has “it’s place.” You’ll noticed that nearly everything fits into the overall color scheme. I hoped to address subtle details like the input buttons for subscribing or submitting a comment.
  • Social Bookmarking – I want to make it easier for people to see and make use of the great social bookmarking tools at the end of each article. If you like the article I write, I hope you will use them.
  • Behind the Scenes – I put a lot of effort into cleaning up the code and helping make sure search engines can index my content properly. This may mean nothing to the average reader, but if you run a blog you realize this can be signficant work.

With that out of the way, here are some of the stories I liked from other members of The Money Writers:

  • The Digerati Life writes about how to make 10 ordinary things last longer. I found the flower tips the most interesting here.
  • Generation X Finance had an unfortunate experience with a woman who refuses to roll over her 401k. This is why need to have personal finance taught in schools.
  • Sun’s Financial Diary reviews the process of buying stock at ComputerShare. I have never heard of this company, but it sounds interesting.
  • Brip Blap gives us the ying and the yang of consulting – 15 reasons to be a consultant and 15 reasons to NOT be a consultant.
  • Money Smart Life’s college is selling his information. It’s things like this that make me not active in any alumni events.
  • Million Dollar Journey says this is the best time to start investing
  • My Dollar Plan has 30 Money Saving tips. I always like to look at how many of these, I’m not already doing. I found that I can use 7 or 8 of these tips.

And from other writers:

  • Free Money Finance asks if he should include known liabilities in his net worth. I think potential future costs should be tracked separately.
  • No Credit Needed is looking to recycle cans to buy a $1400 lawnmower. It sounds crazy to try to collect 175 cans a day. That said, I did collect cans with my father and brother which was used to help fund our first computer.
  • Mighty Bargain Hunter says that you should check the unit prices at the grocery store. I do this, but sometimes they don’t update the unit prices if a product is on sale.

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Comments

  1. Jeremy says

    April 13, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Yay, no more headaches! For real, it is a large improvement for sure. Very easy on the eyes, everything is compact and laid out nicely.

    Reply
  2. Sun says

    April 13, 2008 at 9:31 am

    Lazy: Your logo’s background is white, but the background of the header isn’t. So I thought it may look better if the backgrounds are the same or use a transparent background for the logo.

    Reply
  3. Lazy Man says

    April 13, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Thanks Sun, I have tried to fix the logo – hopefully it looks better now.

    Reply
  4. Writer's Coin says

    April 13, 2008 at 10:42 am

    I like the new look Lazy, it looks nice and clean and makes it feel much more professional, but not too corporate or anything.

    Reply
  5. Jeremy says

    April 13, 2008 at 11:41 am

    Lazy, there is some white in the logo between the letters. Also, your adsense background is still white as well, so it isn’t blending with the background.

    Reply
  6. DebtDieter says

    April 13, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    The new looks is wonderful, congratulations! It’s a very clean, light layout.

    Reply
  7. Lisa says

    April 13, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    I like your design. It’s very clean. I’ve decided if I start another blog, it’s going to have a simpler design/simpler color scheme.

    Reply
  8. Justakrusen says

    April 13, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    When my blog grows up it wants to be just like yours.:) Well not just like it… It is very easy on the eyes.I like the colors a lot.

    Reply
  9. Tom says

    April 14, 2008 at 7:18 am

    I like it!

    I need to do something with my design. I’m just a little too lazy. :)

    Reply
  10. Luc says

    April 14, 2008 at 7:19 am

    I LOVE the new logo! I was going to post a comment last week when I saw it – but there was no post where it sort of “fit in”… Looks great!

    Reply
  11. Tom says

    April 14, 2008 at 7:23 am

    One thing I just noticed…there is no link to the comments at the end of each post. You have to scroll back up and click on the comments block or the title to get to the comments.

    Reply
  12. Llama Money says

    April 14, 2008 at 8:18 am

    The new logo is great – very fitting. As is the new design. Very “pro” looking – did you hammer it out yourself or contract it out?

    Reply
  13. Lazy Man says

    April 14, 2008 at 8:24 am

    I used another theme to start, but by the time it was done it looked nothing like that.

    Reply
  14. Danny Tsang says

    April 14, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Congrats on the new design. It’s very clean and very readable. I love the logo too, very clever. Keep up the good work.

    Reply
  15. NCN says

    April 15, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    I love the logo and the site redesign!
    NCN

    Reply

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