Note to those who view source and still see psychedelic HTML. Drupal generates most of that. The entire page template for this site is now 84 lines of HTML, and the style sheet was reduced to about 2100 bytes from about 13K before. The rest of that stuff is on Drupal.

Interesting. I'm not sure about it yet but I like new stuff so have at it.

Beats the new look at the KNS.

I like it!

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I like the new layout. I love the wide discussion summary and upcoming events. I like the order of the boxes in the double column section. I also like the tone-on-tone color scheme.

There's something I don't like about the font in the actual content section, but I'm not sure what. Maybe it needs to go down a point? Or maybe tighten up the line spacing? Also, the line that identifies the source blog and the the comment count just fades out. If you don't want to keep the bold, maybe go with the same color you use to flag new comments in the discussion summary?

The comment page seriously needs a separator between the comments or a greenbar layout or something. Note the similarity between the titles and the link in redmondkr's sig. Also, the "new" tag shouldn't be in front of the photo; it makes it wander left and right on the page when someone doesn't provide a photo.

I like it. Though I agree w/ mjw's last paragraph about the comments needing delineation.

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. Some tweaks made...

The change works well for me.

One suggestion:

On the Blog-O-Rama and Media Blogs side bars, it seems to run together. Maybe double space after each bullet?

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Thanks, Gary. Adjusted the spacing a little.

Drupal is a great platform.
Lots of people using it, including the White House.
Here's a look at it's penetration:
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

I also love Textpad as an editor.
Not too much, not too little.

Oh, yes, the page loads much faster. Tables are so web 1.0! :-)

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Suppress the BCBS Ad as it causes a giant sea of blue between the Masthead and the beginning of the content?

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I like the look.

I'm liking the change, but I wish y'all would go back to full feeds for RSS. It's a hassle having to come here to view it when I should be able to read it in Google Reader.

But I'm digging the sharpness of it, and it is definitely faster.

I like the layout of the stuff on the right.

It seems the left-hand content column could use something more to delineate individual entries. It looks just a little bit too plain.

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

Really liking the tweaks so far. The boxes around the comments will be particularly helpful when nine and metulj go on so long in dialog that the comments end up about a word wide. ;-)

I was on the fence about the button bar below a post, but taking the buttons down a size makes all the difference. And I like the Shortcuts box. (I had just noticed those orphaned buttons last night, and now you've already fixed it.)

Good job.

I think it is ok. I need to use it more to develop more of an opinion. Something that hits me from my usage so far, I use the navigation section pretty regularly and now I have to scroll to it a lot. Given my personal usage pattern that is an inconvenience.

Navigation box being Home, Contact, My Account, etc.

Thanks, jbr. What functions do you frequently use from the navigation section?

Home, My Account, My inbox, create content and I would group "search" in that category although I have always scrolled down to find the query text box before. I had not previously noticed search in the long list.

I like the different color used for the new comments in the topics list. That is helpful.

I use the mobile version 60% of the time and I have noticed something in mobile that would make it work much more conveniently. In the recent discussions section, if I click on the new comment link it doesn't take me directly to the new comment like it does directly below the post. Therefore in a lengthy discussion it can take forever to scroll to the bottom. My bberry scroll ball would appreciate that tweak!

R. Neal,

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@gdrinnen2, mobi should be fixed for new comments, let me know...

@jbr, buttons added (clicking the KnoxViews banner at the top takes you to the home page, or if you are at the bottom of the page there is a 'breadcrumb' with a link to 'home').

Thanks!

They work like a charm! Now if everyone provided this kind of customer service. . .