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Last month, the new design of milevalue.com went live, and I walked through some of the changes in “MileValue Looks Different.”
The team behind the design was Third Harbor, specifically Tyler and Emily.
Tyler has a lot of experience in the field, but this specific company is new, and he was too busy working on several client projects to get his own website up until now. This is how Tyler explained to me what Third Harbor is:
My new company is called ‘Third Harbor’ (http://www.thirdharbor.com). We help non-technical founders plan, develop, and launch technical projects, apps, companies, and websites. Our work largely falls into three categories: design and development, Minimum Viable Product creation, and web presence management.
In addition to our roles as designers and developers, we also function much like a film producer. We manage the needs of each project as they arise, and save our clients the trouble of finding, vetting, and managing individual contractors.
That’s me. A non-technical founder.
I’m putting this post out to get as free advertisement for Third Harbor because I am happy with their work.
I’m happy with how MileValue looks, really happy with the level of responsiveness during the planning stages, transition, and putting out post-transition fires. I definitely recommend Third Harbor to anyone.
Tyler and I started with my ideas, and he figured out how to implement them. Third Harbor can do the same for you.
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Your website does look great, however more important than this is a functional website. Your website is functional. Some websites are eye candy and frankly serve little purpose, or are difficult to find what you are looking for. WordPress has great capabilities and can power a website the right way.
Great work
Rob
Your website does look great, however more important than this is a functional website. Your website is functional. Some websites are eye candy and frankly serve little purpose, or are difficult to find what you are looking for. WordPress has great capabilities and can power a website the right way.
Great work
Rob
The information on this site is very useful and practical. The new design is flat, making it less distracting. But sometimes when the different components can crash (i.e. title, tagline, and paragraph), it can potentially make the information less readable.
The information on this site is very useful and practical. The new design is flat, making it less distracting. But sometimes when the different components can crash (i.e. title, tagline, and paragraph), it can potentially make the information less readable.
I’m not a huge fan of the new layout. The first thing I noticed was even with my 1920×1200 resolution monitor, 3/4 of the homepage is not content. You see one article. 1/3 is ads and almost half is the header. I would shrink down the header(probably move the large “Want to learn how to travel anywhere?” section) and move the ads somewhere else and get more content “above the fold” as they say. Just some feedback
I’m not a huge fan of the new layout. The first thing I noticed was even with my 1920×1200 resolution monitor, 3/4 of the homepage is not content. You see one article. 1/3 is ads and almost half is the header. I would shrink down the header(probably move the large “Want to learn how to travel anywhere?” section) and move the ads somewhere else and get more content “above the fold” as they say. Just some feedback
I also have a problem with the type size or font. On the website it may work BUT when the daily post is emailed to readers it is TOO SMALL, and not really easily read. PLEASE find a way to increase the type size to what it was before. It’s probably a technical thing taking the daily update on the web and mailing it to subscribers. The information is so valuable I’d hate to miss something because it’s hard to read. Hope you will consider looking into this. Thanks
I also have a problem with the type size or font. On the website it may work BUT when the daily post is emailed to readers it is TOO SMALL, and not really easily read. PLEASE find a way to increase the type size to what it was before. It’s probably a technical thing taking the daily update on the web and mailing it to subscribers. The information is so valuable I’d hate to miss something because it’s hard to read. Hope you will consider looking into this. Thanks
I’m not a huge fan of the new layout either. The print is very small and the ads take up most of the content. It is difficult to determine what is an ad and what is an actual article.
I’m not a huge fan of the new layout either. The print is very small and the ads take up most of the content. It is difficult to determine what is an ad and what is an actual article.
Also not a fan. I can’t believe you don’t have an archive. If you plan to continue blogging and think your content is useful, you really need to make it easily available to readers. Tags and a search box aren’t enough.
And bright white is a terrible choice for a background, though I get that “everyone does it”. High contrast is really hard on the eyes – the tan/beige background you had before was far superior in that regard.
Also not a fan. I can’t believe you don’t have an archive. If you plan to continue blogging and think your content is useful, you really need to make it easily available to readers. Tags and a search box aren’t enough.
And bright white is a terrible choice for a background, though I get that “everyone does it”. High contrast is really hard on the eyes – the tan/beige background you had before was far superior in that regard.