Comments on: Welcome To The Newly Designed TMV

By: Daniel Berczik

Daniel Berczik — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:18:07 +0000

Congrats Joe and gang. The new site looks like an update of the old look, which I rather liked.

But you know, Joe, there’s too much blue! Can’t you see that you have insulted the red staters? It’s a hidden liberal agenda, isn’t it? And what’s with the yellow? What sort of message does that send? And, and…

For info, I’m having no problem loading the page.

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:28:43 +0000

I don’t even see the blogroll..?

By: Lynx

Lynx — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:47:50 +0000

I’m with Nick and Steve. I think “Right” should be placed above “Other”. No it’s not alphabetical, but classification is done to make sense to the people who go looking for things. When there are only 4 categories an alphabetical list is not as important as, say, in the tag list. The intuitive list for a moderate blog is “Center, Right, Left, & Other” or “Center, Left, Right and Other”. Toss a coin on that one, I suppose.

By: Chuck - The Populist

Chuck - The Populist — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:09:02 +0000

Hey guys…. Here’s a real knee slapper for ya. I was on another blog, that linked to here. and I followed the link, and for some reason your name didn’t *click* in my brain… anyways, I got here and went WHOA! someone stole Joe’s blog name… then it dawned on me, this IS Joe’s blog! ROFLMAO! Great new design man! WOW! Awesome… I’m green with envy! *stomps feet* I wanna get on WordPress too man! get cool and stuff too!!! anyhow…it looks great joe, I look forward to coming here everyday. *thumbs up*

-Chuck

By: SteveK

SteveK — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:51:17 +0000

FWIW Nick – You’ve got this ‘lefties‘ vote… Alphabetical order IS logical in a ‘neat and tidy’ world but the world isn’t always ‘neat and tidy’… Plus IMO “Right Voices” will be referred to more often than “Other Voices”.

Better yet… As they now have their own TMV Blogroll Page (and as liberal progressives are the only logical choice :] ) I’d like to see “Left Voices” and “Right Voices” side-by-side (left on the left if that’s O.K. with you) giving any undecided / unindoctrinated readers an easy way to compare the attitude and outlook of both sides of the fence.

By: Nick Rivera

Nick Rivera — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:15:21 +0000

Am I the only one who feels that “Right Voices” should be elevated above “Other Voices.” I realize that the sequence “Center Voices”, “Left Voices”, “Other Voices”, “Right Voices” follows alphabetical order, but it doesn’t make intuitive sense (to me at least) for “Other Voices” (ostensibly the “leftover” category) to precede “Right Voices.” That, and our conservative friends might feel slighted at being placed last.

By: Lara from Blog What? Design

Lara from Blog What? Design — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:04:13 +0000

Yes, as Tyrone said… we’ll be going through to complete some tweaks to put the site in tip-top shape.

By: Joe Gandelman

Joe Gandelman — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:00:16 +0000

As tyrone says: you have to give it some time. It has not even been up 24 hour yet.

By: TMV Administrator

TMV Administrator — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:50:28 +0000

A couple of reasons why the site is slower:

1. There are more graphical elements to the site which load slower.

2. There are more ads on the site which sometime cause slow page load speeds.

The next day or so, there will be some “optimizations” to help increase page loading speeds. One thing about site design, you always end up tweaking things hear and there to find a “comfort level”.

Tyrone S.
TMV Administrator

By: Holly in Cincinnati

Holly in Cincinnati — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:34:56 +0000

It’s not supposed to be loading slowly.

By: Entropy

Entropy — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:39:53 +0000

I Like the new design, except it loads a lot slower now.