Cult of Mac Redesign

Leander Kahney ()

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We’re trying out a new “beta” redesign here at Cult of Mac by the genius graphic designer Rob Beschizza, who is also a Wired News contributo.

The site may be slow for a few days and there may be glitches. Please us know if there’s any problems in the comments below. Please also leave your general feedback.

- Graphics are not final; big files might make for longer download
times or poor performance on slow machines.

- Beware general oddness; there’s some rough, invalid markup, etc.

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- Transparent PNGs will look messed up on IE6. Upgrade! But IE6
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About the author

Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • Marc

    Ummmm…. really bad timing. You should do this next week or later.

  • Trev

    Ooh, I like it!

  • Trev

    Ooh, I like it!

  • Dougie

    Quick tip – just follow the process here for PNG rendering in IE5 + 6:
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/

    This is the same technique Apple.com uses in the iPhone Gallery (which also uses PNGs and works fine in IE).

  • http://bderw.blogspot.com BdeRWest

    I get a doubled copyright notice at the bottom of the page. But other than that I like it.

  • http://bderw.blogspot.com BdeRWest

    And (not to double post, but I just noticed it), the bottom banner ad is offset to the right. I’m running Safari 3.0b, btw.

  • http://www.comicearth.com Brian

    I find that when I try to use the RSS feature within Safari it doesn’t work saying that the page can’t be displayed, This may be that you aren’t using RSS or don’t have it setup, but if you do, and it should work, it’s not… Just wanted to pass it along… Love the site!
    Brian

  • http://on-screen.blogspot.com Jonathan

    Nice.

  • http://www.emilcar.es emilcar

    Beautiful design! By the way… Are your books going to be translated into spanish any time?

  • Adam

    Big fan of the new design, great job so far.

  • Woody

    Obviously didn’t design it to a mainstream resolution. View the site at 1024×768.

  • Rob Beschizza

    Woody,

    It should be fine at that res, but I do want to tighten it in a bit. I’ll be tweaking and editing a lot in the coming days to work out browser-specific bugs – the main layout should just fit in a 1024x window, and once done, there’ll be space to spare.

  • Destroyer

    re-work… not very attractive…

  • http://volodimer.org Volodimer Nicholas

    I like it, nice & readable.
    But I preferred the old logo (on Wired) ;-)

  • Howie

    The new layout is terrible. Poor colors make the site seem dull and uninteresting. Low contrast between text and background color make it hard to read. Header image is WAY too large consuming almost a good 1/3 of the screen for most popular resolutions. In sum: redesign or let’s go back to the original layout! Please! Thank you!

  • *#&!)(#@

    Ugly!!!! Fire your designer (and hire me).

  • Rob Beschizza

    Dougie, thanks for the link to Apple’s favored PNG transparency fix. I’d planned to use a different technique (server-side instead of javascript), but that will do just as well!

  • Rob Beschizza

    Howie, the colors will be tweaked, with an eye to a better contrast.

    “*#&!)(#@,” anything in particular you don’t like?

    Bde, thanks for pointing out the footer bugs :-)

  • http://ThunkDifferent.com ThunkDifferent.com

    Looks great, i just came across the new desing, melikes!

  • Destroyer

    I don’t think the problem is with the colors… mainly the gigantic size of you logo header and the layout.
    great content as usual…