Guys, after 10 months we decided it was the time to give Tale of Painters a little optical facelift. So welcome the new Tale of Painters design! Don’t worry, this is still the Tale of Painters you like and enjoy. We took the best of our old website and made it just better. Everything is so crisp, it’s like the moonlanding! Nah, just kidding… but we hope you enjoy the more modern design and clearer arrangement 😉 We also improved loading times and support for older browsers and Internet Explorer.
But it’s not just the new design. We also added a couple of new features. We added threaded commenting to our commenting section, which means from now on you’ll be able to directly answer to a specific comment via the reply link you find in each comment bubble. We hope this lets the sparks fly for even more interesting hobby discussions!
Also check out our new site footer, where you can discover the six latest tutorials and reviews, the six most popular posts this month and six random posts so you don’t need to miss out on our excellent hobby content we’ve produced over the time.
Preparing and installing our new design took lots of time and effort. We hope you’ll enjoy it and remain loyal to Tale of Painters. A big thank you to all of you, whether you are a first timer on Tale of Painters or a regular reader. Your feedback is what makes Tale of Painters so great for us! Please tell us in the comments your thoughts about the new design, maybe point us toward a bug we might have missed or simply take the time to subscribe to our RSS feed, to like us on Facebook or follow us on Blogger to show your support. In the grim darkness of the far future there can only be more great hobby posts brought to you by the Tale of Painters crew!
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I like the layout but feel the sidebar is too wide compared to the actual content, I'd make it more 60-40. Other than that great job 🙂
Yea my initial thought was the sidebar is too big.. (never liked bols for that). Could it be split in 2 and have 1 either side?. It wont stop me coming to this site though as the content is top notch.
Indeed right nav is too wide, and the show all for the blog network is broken. So can only see the ones shown.
Also appreciate that you guys are looking for sponsors, but having the same ones up twice/thrice in the right nav also? Might be a bit much?
Like the other improvement though, same with the moving image gallery, though that would be nicer if it was larger or wider.
On my mobile device I see more links and banners and stuff than actual content. I think the aspect ratio content/sidebar is not well chosen. The content is what makes your site interesting, perhaps you should rethink this structure.
And yes, the blogger network "show all" link is broken, because it is outside the viewport of the container.
As already stated by others, your content is excellent so these things won't keep me from returning but its definitly a redesign for the worse (imo).
Thanks for the feedback guys, keep it coming!
The sidebar is that wide because we had to cram so much stuff into it and we still want to keep the site narrow enough to fit on smaller screens like you have them on netbooks or smaller tablets. Also we want to give our Blog Network its well-deserved space to display all the awesome hobby blogs. Actually the left column hasn't changed in width compared to the old design and sidebar got only a couple of pixel wider.
So we can't make it smaller at the moment but this is definately something we keep in mind for Tale of Painters MkIII, whenever it may happen 😉