Comments on: Welcome to the new ThinkVitamin!

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:02:15 +0000

Wow, really cool new features and really cool new design. Well done!

By: Ruben Bos

Ruben Bos — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:59:50 +0000

I think this redesign is really interesting. I always knew that Think Vitamin existed and that it featured great articles on webdesign. But somehow, I just never visited the website. And now after all these years of difficult layouts etc. it has changed into a simple blog with a really great design and suddenly this is one of my daily websites.

Conclusion: the layout and interaction design of a standard blog has been proven over and over. Stick with it, it’s great.

Btw. Ryan, love the redesign!

By: Carsonified Summer Camp – Part 2

Carsonified Summer Camp – Part 2 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:01:43 +0000

[...] and also general design tips and philosophies that he believes in. He took us through the recent Carsonified re-design and showed us some of the designs that he rejected and didn’t make it to the live version, [...]

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:24:54 +0000

Hey John,

Thanks for pointing that out. It’s currently counting spam comments in that total. It’s on our list of fixes :)

Best,
Ryan

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:20:15 +0000

OK, last one I promise: on some articles, the actual number of comments doesn’t match up with the number of comments reported, i.e., on the ‘How to Design a Portfolio Site’ article at the moment there are 5 comments but the speech bubble at the top and the h4 before the list says there are 10.

By: ANSQERON

ANSQERON — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:04:26 +0000

Oh, it’s pretty nice to see the new clean design! Actually, I was wondering what’s up with my feedreader when I saw this post.
I really like the change and I enjoy seeing quality stuff over here. Thank you.

By: Alieu Colley

Alieu Colley — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:02:16 +0000

What a nice blog site. I’d like this blog and the brand new ThinkVitamin.

By: blackabee

blackabee — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:08:24 +0000

beautiful updates. thanks for staying fresh.

By: Rajesh Satyarthi

Rajesh Satyarthi — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:01:31 +0000

Finally a good design worth vitamin, ever since vitamin get redesigned back in 2006 i thought how such quality blog lost its brand using a pre-made blog theme.

Now i am satisfied, clear, concise and colors are great. love the curvy-speech-bubble effect on main navigation. fonts are good sized, color scheme is beautiful. and footer is awesome.

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:14:58 +0000

Just another small point – the link to the comments at the top of the page points to #comments but it appears that ID doesn’t exist in the page.

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:31:34 +0000

i just love it :)
Great job guys

By: Daan

Daan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:39:20 +0000

One word: Fugly

By: Rick Hocutt

Rick Hocutt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:41:50 +0000

Hey guys,

for whatever reason the header for http://www.carsonified.com/blog is a little messed up in Firefox 3.0.11 on the Mac. Changing #latest-news { clear:left;} to #latest-news { clear:both;} seemed to fix it. This also didn’t have any adverse affects on the PC.

Take care!

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:30:21 +0000

@Chad – thanks mate!

By: websolutions

websolutions — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:31:19 +0000

Good job Mike! The site looks beautiful and to the point. Congratulations! personal finance

By: Manny

Manny — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:17:01 +0000

awesome design, this site rocks. Thanks for a great resource.

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:34:48 +0000

Ryan, that makes perfect sense.

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:29:48 +0000

Hey John,

Thanks for the feedback. The reason why we’re not talking about doing design/dev work for other people is because we only do it occasionally.

Thanks,
Ryan

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:05:01 +0000

I like this design a whole lot more than the last one, which quite frankly never looked finished and never appeared coherent or even “designed”. This design, and the integration of the ThinkVitamin into the main website now seems to make more sense of the Carsonified brand (or what ever you want to define it as). I think this evolution shows what a unified design can do and how in good design everything fits together and looks as though it has been thought about and considered.

I am not a fan of the “big” look, which recently seems to be getting even bigger and I would still say a reduction of 10 or 20% on the scale of the graphics/layout would be an improvement – especially to anyone with a 1024×768 monitor. But I appreciate your audience are less likely to be running such a low res set up. So while I disagree with the scale I can accept the reasoning why it’s been done at that size.

On a strategy level, there’s no mention of Carsonified doing web development work. I thought that was part of the new Carsonified plan. Has that now changed? This site and what you appear to be offering as a company seems a lot more coherent (as an events/training/workshop company) but having said that I was under the impression you were diversifying and therefore I would have expected something about that on the site. Has this position changed? I can see it would have diluted some of the core messages of the site and your vision, so I wondered if you omitted it for those reasons or simply because you’re no longer going down that road.

By: chad engle

chad engle — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:38:45 +0000

Ryan,
The redesign looks great! I really like what you have done with the idea of the design and not being conventional. It was a point we touched on last night during ChatCreative. The guys from @Obox talked about pushing the limits and not copying people. Nice look and feel. Love it.
Cheers,
-Chad

By: carlnunes

carlnunes — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:23:57 +0000

I really like the logo background shape.

The layout looks fun, light, and efficient!

The FEB50C page is fine because the bio pages level of importance(readability) is low enough to warrant some smart/fun colors.

DADECC works for me.

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:26:44 +0000

@John Faulds – Thanks for the feedback. We’re considering options for the colour of my bio page.

By: Nick Lindwall (Coolbox)

Nick Lindwall (Coolbox) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:23:24 +0000

Fantastic site folks, really love it. I thought the people pages were great and I like the illustrations, backgrounds not too bright either ;)

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:03:09 +0000

Loving the new design in general but found your team page, Ryan, to be a bit harsh on the eyes. The yellow’s too bright especially with the contrasting elements being white.

By: Francis

Francis — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:48:58 +0000

Hi there ! Really love the new carsonified.com !! Love the blog too but I think it is too conventional. I mean the design is great but not really original like carsonified.com. Maybe that is just the background color that is too neutral to me !! ;-)

By: John (Human3rror)

John (Human3rror) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:45:42 +0000

hawt! good stuff.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:21:18 +0000

I like the new look for the website but it feels incomplete; the header just seems to be plonked there and doesn’t really feel connected to what’s below it, like its missing a background graphic – but I am a developer not a designer so take it with a pinch of salt.

By: Brade

Brade — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:39:15 +0000

Stellar job, Mike and co. Love the bold colors and the zany imagery! This is one of the most noteworthy website designs I’ve seen in a while.

By: Michael Caputo

Michael Caputo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:35:38 +0000

Lovin’ the new design guys!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:08:54 +0000

Guys, you have truly outdone yourselves. Trying to think of a superlative to describe your new website, but i’m lost for words. It is simply the dog’s bollocks as we say up north.