Nice new look - well done. :)

By Stephen on 01.29.06 11:24 pm

What a change! Very colorful.

-Joy

By Joy on 01.29.06 11:50 pm

It looks good here, Johnny.

By MarcV on 01.30.06 6:35 am

This looks beautiful! A sign of wonderful growth for all of us pencil fans!

By Nita on 01.30.06 7:35 am

Hey! I thought maybe last night I was just delirious after playing World of Warcraft for 10 hours straight, but I see that I wasn’t hallucinating.

Congrats on the new look and feel and home!

By Dave Smith on 01.30.06 8:19 am

One other thing - with WordPress, a piece of open source software that can be deployed anywhere, some giant corporation doesn’t own your blog (in a de facto sense). You own your blog, you can change/manage anything you want including the behind the scenes code, you can use your ISP of choice, you can change provider at will, and much more. Good stuff.

By Stephen on 01.30.06 8:25 am

I can’t take credit for the design. It’s based on a Wordpress template called “Benevolence” by Theron Parlin at Thought Mechanics. I only changed a few things and the masthead. I might tinker a little more or change it entirely in the not so distant future.

This is not to say I was necessarily unhappy with Blogger. I love Blogger. Run on your own server, it’s even better. But it was time to try something different:)

By Pencil Revolution on 01.30.06 8:46 am

Three cheers for Open Source:)

Love the new look… very spiffy!

By alcarwen on 01.30.06 9:53 am

Love the new layout! Looks really great. I do miss, however, the slightly larger font that was in the original. The size of the font in the new one as it appears on my screen is now very tiny. I think I know what causes that though. Birthdays.

By heyartlady on 01.30.06 10:08 am

Very very nice, comrade. The background — is it 3B or 4B lead? Can’t tell on this monitor. : )

By Michael Leddy on 01.30.06 11:12 am

I like the new look but I miss the pencil-written logo! Good luck getting all the final pieces in place.

By ana on 01.30.06 12:19 pm

I also miss the “put your pencils down” tag at the bottom of the page. You’re very clever!

By ana on 01.30.06 12:20 pm

I put the footer back up, Ana:) I’d forgotten all about it.

By Johnny on 01.31.06 12:08 am

I’m with heyartlady, I prefer the bigger font.

Michael Leddy:
The background — is it 3B or 4B lead?”

:D

PS - I think all my links from my link blog are broken to you, now, unfortunately. :(

By Sour Duck on 01.31.06 10:27 am

I’ve made the main post font a touch bigger. The redesign will be on-going:)

Sourduck, when I customized the permalink structure, I tried to keep them the same. I’m pretty sure they will work if you take off the “.html” — pretty sure;)

By Pencil Revolution on 01.31.06 10:41 am

I like the new graphic design though I guess even revolutionaries need to learn how to adapt to a change now and then. I just spent the last hour having to update all the lost links to your nice Reviews of our products on all my promotion boxes and listings at Pencil World Creativity Store. This change does make it a bit more difficult to find any particular review now without scrolling down the page of all your reviews. This has probably happened to anyone who linked from their blog directly to a particular post at Pencil Revolutions rather than the main blog URL.

By WoodChuck on 01.31.06 10:57 am

Wood Chuck, Sorry about the links getting messed up. I tried to keep the same permalink structure, but Wordpress is php based, so the “.hmtl” at the end of the Blogger pages don’t read correctly. I will email you the permalinks ASAP directly:)

By Pencil Revolution on 01.31.06 12:21 pm

Pencil Revolution looks great!
I LOVE the new masthead - looks really, really nice.

- Mike
Paper Notes In A Digital World

By Mike - Paper Notes on 01.31.06 4:17 pm

Yes, the feed’s in a different place — it’s now at http://www.pencilrevolution.com/feed/ where it used to be at http://www.pencilrevolution.com/atom.xml

By scruss on 02.04.06 7:28 am