BloodyElbow.com Gets a Redesign

It looks alright, no complaints.

We fear change.

What’s the difference other than that tab thing near the top?

I don’t know. It looks odd.

It looks cluttered if you ask me. No borders makes it look like everything is thrown together. I liked having the colors, it worked well for the team sites. Left justifying the titles is a little weird.

i like how the “shadow guy” for people without an avatar is gone, replaced by the red star. and how that red star now is next to bloodyelbow.com when I look at it in my bookmarks list.

it’s the little things that make me happy.

It would be great if there was an option to change layouts in Edit Settings for the people that preferred the old one.

ok it seems like there is no spacing on comments

there should be a paragraph break here

and another one here

testing

But two weeks from now, no one will even remember what the old design looked like.

It seems very fightlinker-esque

On the inside pages the menu shifts about 10-15px to the right.

All of the feedback is going to help SBNation get the redesign right. Keep in mind: this is not the final design. This is a work in progress, so your input at this stage is really valuable.

I have to admit I’m a little disappointed that nobody consulted with me about this first.

It’s definitely easier to read SB sites now.

This is like facebook updates. We’ll all bitch and moan for a week, then forget what the old one was like. Repeat in several months.

Whats up with the giant font? Are we kids or seniors that we need font that big?

It’s not bad, though it reminds me of the super old look of Bloody Elbow a few years back (before you guys got gobbled up by SB Nation).

But in any case, I usually grab the articles from my reader and don’t visit the site unless I need to comment anyway(which has been rare lately), so s’all good.

I like the font (some of us are old people) but man there is a crazy amount of wasted space (probably a side effect of the font change). There appears to be alot of white space between posts, so much so that it’s distracting.

I hate it, but i hate change.

I definitely think it looks less professional than the previous design. Individual sections don’t visually pop as much as they used to, so the open layout with all same colored background and text can be a bit visually confusing at times. That’s compounded by the fact that there are a couple minor formatting problems in Firefox causing things to not appear where they should be.

Plus, I don’t know if this is just coincidence, but I encountered a scripting error the first time I tried to load the site today which caused the page to time out, which I believe was caused by an advertiser script.

The site loads perfectly fine on Safari 4.

I kind of like the new font, the only problem I think that needs to be addressed is filling in the gaps of white space.

Weirdo.

I’ll get used to it, I thought it was a glitch at first.

The site looks clean but the logo looks kinda out of place.

/flameshield?

I liked the old look better. It had a much more substantive feel. This design is too airy and light. Not sure why SBNation had to go and change it up.

I use Firefox and the logo isn’t lining up for me, either.

I just think it looks less professional. It looks very thrown together and there is way too much white.

-on the text, the align left and new font of the titles look okay on the actual page/link of the post itself, but not so much in the front page.

-All the sites look the same. The link colors and header are the only ones different. The past look kinda makes Bloodyelbow different from BLH, and WKR and M4R etc. etc and it adds more personality to the site.

now, all the sites look like a less professional version SBNation.com.

-also, like most of the people said.. too much white, and the borders are hardly seen.

(i don’t mean to sound harsh or mean, because SBN obviously does a ton of great work and they’re really dedicated to this, but i just wanted to give some constructive criticism on it.)

since the header buttons are now smaller, and the logo is still the same size, it isn’t aligned anymore, making it look kinda off..

If they’re sticking with the small header, maybe a smaller logo too so it would be aligned at least? (like how it looks in the links of the actual posts)

… and I think it is so-so. I wish borders still separated the posts, and I wish the headlines were still bold and centered. I also liked the darker borders on the sides. The font itself I like more, and I am very glad that you guys finally got a browser logo to go next to your site name in a tab. All-in-All, I give it a 7.0 out of 10, since I am sure it will grow on me.

I like the bold headlines. And too, too, much white. Maybe a light gray to make it easier on the eyes?

It just looks more bland to me. I don’t really care, but I preferred the older look.

Looks pretty good. I like the “cleaner” feel to it. Personally, the simpler the better.

Personally, I’ve always loved the Red Star on a field of black that SBNation had, and I’m glad BE has it now. Of course, that says more about me…

and not in a “new ant overlords” kind of way.

I don’t like the new design. On my computer, it’s screwed up. Posts show up on both the left and right side (2 different stories at once) and are crammed in and it looks completely unprofessional/ridiculous. It also causes the fanposts to be at the very bottom of the screen, scrolling down past the additional stories.

I remember when Fiveouncesofpain.com switched to their new layout, that caused me to stop going to that website and change to here, but they also stopped making as many posts.

I like the faint borders. It cleans things up. However, its still pretty baron at the bottom of the pages.

Why does your icon come up the red star while TNISAAM comes up with their logo on my tabs and URL bar?

It’s odd. The new icon is a red star which suggests power, yet the new design is so sanitized looking that it seems more fitting for a health site than an MMA site.

Just my opinion, but it lacks the “oomph” that the old design had. It isn’t bad, its kind of nice actually – it just doesn’t seem to fit.

This morning shit was going crazy and there was two columns of posts and you couldn’t see half the posts in the second column. Its gotten better now, but I thought the old layout was the pinnacle of awesome.

Just as long as you dont go all Five Ounces on me.