Dave, I like the new look. Sleeker, especially with a single right column. Been thinking of a change too.

The new design looks great-very professional and visually pleasing. Good work to you & the 76design crew!

Congrats on the new design. I really like what you've done with the right-hand rail - so simple and uncluttered, yet filled with lots of goodness. (The things you miss when you skim your reader. - heh)

The new layout is very clean and less jumbled together from discrete parts than before. Very nicely done. Just one question... what's with the "Brogan-esqe" photo in your header? At least Chris is smiling in his... :)

Hey Dave ,really like the new layout and design, much more neat and clean, specially like the change from 3 to 2 columns much easy to navigate trough

One more thing... I *really* like the way your subheads resolve. Didn't see it in this post, but the next one uses them very well. It's great for reading and scanning.

I liked the look & feel of the body part of the "Before", just thought the header needed sprucing up. This site looks good but two things stuck out for me: 1) I think the picture in the header should be one of you smiling. You look unhappy in this photo :( 2) When I click on the links at the top, the headings on those subpages are hard to read - they disappear visually compared with the darker text everywhere else.

First time visitor here, comparing to the old the design (from the screenshots) I think you made a great improvement by going from 3 columns to 2 columns. Nice integration between the social media services. The overall look and feel has been improved. Being a first time visitor I find it a bit hard to navigate through the site. I would suggest to lower the top link below the header image and put up a archive there aswell (I noticed it only until later that it was also at the sidebar). It would also be advisable to take a look at the type corps to possible increase it (large monitors) and increase the line height aswell to create a better legiblity for reading your content. At the homepage I would go for excerpt only, now I have so much content to scroll down to find the content that interests me. Good luck.

Hey Dave, Looks good! Definitely a more 'crisp' look. I also quite like the quotation marks in the header - spiffiness. -K

Good job Dave. Good clean design and the connecting stuff is clear and simple to use. I like.

Looks great, Dave. Really like the cleanliness of the design and I LOVE the quotation marks in your header image name.

Love the architecture of this site a lot better. Being in the PR/Social space like you are, the conversation and RSS presentation is at the appropriate level of prominence for the site. Food for thought: I know you're using PostRank to determine top recent posts, and you have the archives domtabs, but I know you have a lot of solid past posts that would be a great introduction to you as a blogger and expert in this space; put any thought against a "Best of Dave" or similar structure? Perhaps in the About section? Just a thought.

Honestly, I like the open feel and the accessibility to "the conversation." But aesthetically-speaking, the borders between the content and sidebar are too minimalist for me. I'm not a rounded-corner junkie, but there is an awful lot of white. Maybe just ever-so-slightly graying the sidebar elements, just to signal it's a different thing.

New site looks great - nice n fresh. Easy to connect. Congrats! Hope it works for you. I may follow suit with some of the concepts you've used when I relaunch mine in the next few weeks. All the best, Stu

I really like the new look, Dave! Very well done.

Dave,

I like the new look. Sleeker, especially with a single right column. Been thinking of a change too.

The new design looks great-very professional and visually pleasing. Good work to you & the 76design crew!

Congrats on the new design. I really like what you've done with the right-hand rail - so simple and uncluttered, yet filled with lots of goodness. (The things you miss when you skim your reader. - heh)

The new layout is very clean and less jumbled together from discrete parts than before. Very nicely done.

Just one question... what's with the "Brogan-esqe" photo in your header? At least Chris is smiling in his... :)

Hey Dave ,really like the new layout and design, much more neat and clean, specially like the change from 3 to 2 columns much easy to navigate trough

One more thing... I *really* like the way your subheads resolve. Didn't see it in this post, but the next one uses them very well.

It's great for reading and scanning.

I liked the look & feel of the body part of the "Before", just thought the header needed sprucing up. This site looks good but two things stuck out for me:

1) I think the picture in the header should be one of you smiling. You look unhappy in this photo :(

2) When I click on the links at the top, the headings on those subpages are hard to read - they disappear visually compared with the darker text everywhere else.

First time visitor here, comparing to the old the design (from the screenshots) I think you made a great improvement by going from 3 columns to 2 columns. Nice integration between the social media services. The overall look and feel has been improved.

Being a first time visitor I find it a bit hard to navigate through the site. I would suggest to lower the top link below the header image and put up a archive there aswell (I noticed it only until later that it was also at the sidebar).

It would also be advisable to take a look at the type corps to possible increase it (large monitors) and increase the line height aswell to create a better legiblity for reading your content.

At the homepage I would go for excerpt only, now I have so much content to scroll down to find the content that interests me. Good luck.

Hey Dave,

Looks good! Definitely a more 'crisp' look. I also quite like the quotation marks in the header - spiffiness.

-K

Good job Dave. Good clean design and the connecting stuff is clear and simple to use. I like.

Looks great, Dave. Really like the cleanliness of the design and I LOVE the quotation marks in your header image name.

Love the architecture of this site a lot better. Being in the PR/Social space like you are, the conversation and RSS presentation is at the appropriate level of prominence for the site.

Food for thought: I know you're using PostRank to determine top recent posts, and you have the archives domtabs, but I know you have a lot of solid past posts that would be a great introduction to you as a blogger and expert in this space; put any thought against a "Best of Dave" or similar structure? Perhaps in the About section? Just a thought.

Honestly, I like the open feel and the accessibility to "the conversation."

But aesthetically-speaking, the borders between the content and sidebar are too minimalist for me.

I'm not a rounded-corner junkie, but there is an awful lot of white. Maybe just ever-so-slightly graying the sidebar elements, just to signal it's a different thing.

New site looks great - nice n fresh. Easy to connect. Congrats! Hope it works for you. I may follow suit with some of the concepts you've used when I relaunch mine in the next few weeks. All the best, Stu

I really like the new look, Dave! Very well done.