Change Is In The Air

i love the swanky new look..kudos kids!
xoxo

I liked the old look better.

I dig it, nice job.

First Facebook and now this! I’d like to think I am flexible and can adapt, but one of the joys of the older interface was the quiet calm of look and feel, and the sense of community.

But I will say I am OK with the Advertising. Google ads are well matched to the topic so they may lead someplace I would otherwise miss.

More cluttered than the old version.

Excellent choice of colors, layout, and overall balance.
Looks like you’re serious about our community and you give a sense of permanence.
You’ve grown up PQLiving!

Hi. I like the new layout, but I would suggest taking away the trauncated posts with the “Continue Reading” link. You should post the entire entry. This site has one to two updates per day and they are usually short and content rich, so I like to read most of the posts and find the page very easy to navigate without the click throughs. For the user it is easer to ‘Page Down’ on the stories that are not interesting to them versus the constant clicks if you want to read three consecutive stories.

I liked the old look better. I’m finding this more difficult for some reason. Maybe the background is too dark?

I think I speak for all of us at PQLiving when I say we appreciate all the feedback (even the negative). The web is a very fluid medium, so we’ll take all your suggestions into account as we tweak the site in the coming weeks and months.

Thanks again for the comments, we very much appreciate the support of all of our readers.

ethan – thanks for the point about the Continue Reading link which we’ll consider going forward. the Continue Reading link is manually inserted by us authors and we try to use it judiciously. there’s always a balance we trade off between having a longer story fully displayed and keeping a reader’s interest on the main page by having a variety of stories visible at one time. we appreciate your thoughts.

a general thanks goes out to everyone for their comments. you can always e-mail us if you think of a suggestion and want to send it in. see the Contact Us page linked from the top of our site.

I like the new layout, but think the contrast between the dark brown background and the stark white text field is too great. How about a slightly lighter background (I like the brown, just not SO dark) and maybe a beige text field or light shade of blue–something neutral/light that isn’t a sterile white. Obviously, you don’t want too many colors, just soften it up a bit (with the orange and yellow links). Otherwise, very nice.

i do not like it. the old was much nicer.

good job, as always

Thanks for everyone’s feedback! We’ll be making a few tweaks in the design soon.

Please fix whatever change you made that makes this page load so much more slowly than the old version. It looks like it has completed loading, but when you click in a link it is still “waiting” on the page to finish doing something