As you probably already know, I am an avid Ars Technica reader. They always lead the pack in top-notch reviews, well-known for reviewing the latest Apple products, as well as report on news first. Ars Technica has launched a redesigned site and the new layout is very fitting. A new feature, sections, splits up their content and allows Apple fans to subscribe to their Apple section, hardware fans to subscribe to the Hardware section, and so on.
Of all the improvements, I thoroughly enjoy the “Ars Journals” box on the frontpage which quickly gives me all the information I need from all of the Ars blogs.
PaulStamatiou.com runs on the Thesis Theme for WordPress
Thesis is the search engine optimized WordPress theme of choice for serious online publishers. If you’re a blogger who doesn’t understand a lot of PHP, Thesis will give a ton of functionality without having to alter any code. For the advanced, Thesis has incredible customization possibilities via Thesis hooks.
With so many design options, you can use the template over and over and never have it look like the same site. The theme is robust and flexible enough not only to accommodate a site like PaulStamatiou.com, but also to enable the site to run far more efficiently than it ever has before.
I used the Scribe WordPress plugin and service to optimize this blog post for SEO.
{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }
I like it. But man, I hate how literally NOTHING has a mouseover state. Sure, it’s a minor thing, but it’s a serious usability issue. There’s not a single thing to signify that something is indeed a link other than the cursor changing.
Just curious, what do you think are among the best designed major sites, like ign, gamespot, g4tv.com etc. I’ve been looking for ideas.
What is the point behind making the ads a different background color? I think they’d get far more clicks if the text within the google ads blended in with their content more.
I’m of the opinion that having ads that blend in with the background is a bit evil- accidental clicks etc.
Completely agree with Josh P. Even text links don’t have a mouseover state.