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New Design Experiment

By on July 12, 2007 in Blogging | Comments { 30 }

Some of you may have noticed something new on the blog today.  It’s a little experiment inspired by the ants that LetsBuyIt.com used to use.

Thoughts?  Think it will work?  I will be getting stats from the links from Add This! which I’ll share.

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30 Responses to New Design Experiment

  1. Robert Irizarry July 12, 2007 at 10:57 pm #

    I noticed it as soon as I scrolled down the page. I’m actually very interested in your results with it. Although it takes up very little space, I think the “animation” may prove to catch the attention of quite a few folks.

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  2. Robert Irizarry July 12, 2007 at 11:57 pm #

    I noticed it as soon as I scrolled down the page. I’m actually very interested in your results with it. Although it takes up very little space, I think the “animation” may prove to catch the attention of quite a few folks.

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  3. Daniel Scocco July 13, 2007 at 12:18 am #

    I don’t like it man, sorry. I feel it is distracting.

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  4. Daniel Scocco July 13, 2007 at 1:18 am #

    I don’t like it man, sorry. I feel it is distracting.

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  5. Shashank July 13, 2007 at 5:18 am #

    it looks nice but you need to work on design ..and are you sure that it isn’t increasing the load time of your site.

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  6. Shashank July 13, 2007 at 6:18 am #

    it looks nice but you need to work on design ..and are you sure that it isn’t increasing the load time of your site.

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  7. Everton July 13, 2007 at 7:02 am #

    @Daniel

    It’s supposed to get a reader’s attention and be ‘distracting’. The trick is to make it not too distracting!

    @Shashank

    I’m definitely going to try and get better buttons. I don’t think it increase loadtime as the pages seem to be loading faster – I think because I’ve turned off the ‘Share This’ plugin which is a bit of a resource hog

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  8. Everton July 13, 2007 at 8:02 am #

    @Daniel

    It’s supposed to get a reader’s attention and be ‘distracting’. The trick is to make it not too distracting!

    @Shashank

    I’m definitely going to try and get better buttons. I don’t think it increase loadtime as the pages seem to be loading faster – I think because I’ve turned off the ‘Share This’ plugin which is a bit of a resource hog

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  9. Robert Irizarry July 13, 2007 at 3:11 pm #

    “It’s supposed to get a reader’s attention and be ‘distracting’. The trick is to make it not too distracting!”

    I can’t agree more. The line between subtlety and distraction is a thin one but if something completely disappears into the body of the blog, what’s the point? As far as this particular implementation, I don’t have any great issue with it. If someone really enjoys your blog, I don’t see something like this as a deal breaker. Ultimately, the stats will tell if its serving its purpose.

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  10. Angie July 13, 2007 at 9:09 pm #

    I am finding it amusing. ;) I love floating aspects on blogs.

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