Whoa! Nice design...

[flashman78.livejournal.com]

In my half-awakened state, I clicked on the Davis Square page this morning and was like, "Huh? I must have the wrong page." But no! Behold a new, clean, and more useful page! Great job to Pheromone who I assume made the changes. It looks really great.

Comments

[spatch]

The removal of the fingerpaint has turned out to be a Very Nice Move, guys.

nice!

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

It is nice - love the links, love the tags. My only criticism is that the blue sidebar font on paler blue is a bit hard to read; could we increase that contrast a wee bit?

[ron_newman]

Thanks, pheromone! The one thing I'd change is the white type on light grey background (2 comments | Leave a comment). To my eyes, there is insufficient contrast which makes it hard to read.

And yeah, I'd darken the blue font a bit, too.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

You know you are getting old when you request more sharply contrasting fonts, Ron...

* lizie flees!!

[ron_newman]

I really did receive an unsolicited AARP membership card in the mail last week.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

I've been getting those since my mid-20's!

[knowthyself.livejournal.com]

Ooo, very nice indeed!

[ceo]

Nice! I particularly like the icon of the Splat instead of the map that was there before.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I got a Viagra spam with the title "Sex Over 40 Is A Miracle."

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, that's what I did when I should have been sleeping. :]

Comments welcome. I also made a new userpic that I felt worked better as a default, but again, if somebody has something better, that's great, too.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

You rock. Thank yopu so much for this.

Re: nice!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Sure. The color scheme is one of the pre-built sets, so assuming people are generally okay with the basics, tweaking of colors can begin. I agree on some of the contrast issues, too.

[ron_newman]

Yes, love the userpic. Thank you.

Re: nice!

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Can I just say how happy I am you signed on?

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd forgotten that was on my mental to-do list until the swirlies were gone and my brain was able to focus properly. :)

As luck would have it, I had the basic image because I used it a few years ago as the basis of the second Art Café menu, though it did take me some time to locate it amongst the archives.

(It would definitely be possible to make a cleaner/sharper version of same, but the original was a big fuzzy and I'm not a graphics wiz by any stretch.)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Babe, you are clearly a gift from the gods!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

It honestly wasn't a huge amount of work. I didn't design the style -- I just chose which one to use and tweaked a few things here and there.

But that reminds me: we should get ourselves a new "subtitle" now that it's up there so prominently. Suggestions, folks?

[ron_newman]

"We were the Paris of the '90s. Now what?"

[tut21.livejournal.com]

Very nice layout. 1000% percent better than the late-1990s era design we had before. Of course, I read everything in an RSS feed so I had to visit the page to notice the changes.

As for slogans... I don't have anything at the moment. "Welcome to Camberville"?

[tut21.livejournal.com]

"Davis Square. It's not just for burritos anymore."

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Hah!! I love it.

Re: nice!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you. :]

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Yes!!!

Or maybe:

Davis Square: specializing in burritos, second-hand retail, and honking. Since ... about 2001 or so.

:)

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

"We-ah like the Cadillac of Cahs!"

[ron_newman]

Seriously, we could change the subtitle every few weeks in response to current events or fads.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I actually like "Paris of the 90s!" as a default.

Or what was the slogan on the T-shirts that the Someday used to all? "All-American Town 1970"?

[ron_newman]

All-America City, 1972.

[beowabbit]

I got a Viagra spam with the title "Sex Over 40 Is A Miracle."

Heh. Heh heh. Heh heh heh. *Giggle.*

[beowabbit]

Comments welcome.

/* Awesome. You rock. */

[ron_newman]

When I look at the "Honk to Impeach!" post on the davis_square.livejournal.com page, the Tags: aren't at the bottom of the post, but instead somewhere in the middle. Very strange.

(I also suggest adding a blank line between the end of the post and the list of Tags.)

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It looks nice. Thanks for doing this!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to unhook my bra? ;-)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

The Someday Cafe had T-shirts that said:

"US Out of Somerville!"

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

This is lovely! It's sooooo much easier to read.

[cos]

I took several good photos of the signs earlier this year (for my davis square group on going), if you want copies.

[cos]

Geek!

Which is appropriate, because pheromone's "I'm a geek!" story from more than a decade ago is still one of the best ones I've ever heard: She was in class, taking notes using pencil and paper, and she happened to wonder what day of the week a certain date would be, so she wrote down "cal" with her pencil and then stared at the page wondering why a matrix of dates arranged by weeks didn't show up.

[ron_newman]

I did not know the Going.com group even existed. I've added it to this LJ community's profile.