January 16, 2009 will

New Blog Design

I've been working on a blog system in Django lately. I know, I know. Everyone is working on a blog system in Django. I'll discuss how I justify writing a new blog system when there is Wordpress and some excellent existing blog apps for Django. For now, I would like your opinion on the basic design. Here's a screenshot. Be honest, but if you think it sucks, you may make me cry -- I've been working on it for weeks!

New Blog Design
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Hugh Isaacs II

Meh, I'm not too fond of the layout.

It's kinda bland (think early web 2.0 bland).

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Markus Gritsch

What font do you use for the blog text. It looks nice.

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Dougal Matthews

I don't like the white titles on light green on the right. Hard to read, otherwise its simple but simple is good.

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Richard Jones

I like it :)

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Will

Hugh, bland? Are you trying to make me cry?

Markus, the font is "Palatino Linotype".

Douglas, Funny how 'simple' is so complicated to create!

Richard, gracias. :-)

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Ruk

i like the little white arrow on the right hand side, really makes it sexy, it;s the little touches that count.

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Erez

"Funny how ’simple’ is so complicated to create!"

That is because the "simple" you seek is the opposite of complex, not of complicated.

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Andy

Looks quite good, keep it up :)

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Calvin Robinson

I really like it. I'm not usually a fan of serif fonts, but this one really works here.

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Brandon Thomson

It looks fine but why do we need a new blog system written in django? Unless of course you're planning to deploy it on Google App Engine... (hint, hint).

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Ruk

Having had a sneak look at this all templated out, I can say that this design is brilliant!

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Karpo

Hi Will, how are you?
Well, I'm just starting to read your book "Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame" and it's cool. I've read only 1 chapter and I realised that I want to focus on web development with Python, that's why I'm writing to you.
¿Have you published any book like the one I have but focused on web development? If not, ¿could you recommend me how to start making web apps. with django?

My regards from Argentina,

Please answer me soon.

Alan