So I’ve been looking at Shaun Inman’s new design. The man knows how to innovate in terms of web design that’s for sure. My main gripe with the design is that all the text is just too damn small. It looks good for sure, but in terms of it’s legibility it doesn’t score many points, especially since he’s chosen a light grey on the white background. I’ve looked at the site using both a CRT and a TFT, and both just didn’t present the content, the words, the meat and potatoes of the design in a clear way; at least that’s the way I’m seeing it.

What’s impressed me the most about this design however is the fact that he’s got so much crazy-cool (I’m starting to sound like that fucking annoying Honda ad) javascipt going all over the place, adding to some great functionality of the site, which increases his joy of surfing his site. I love how he’s done the expanding and contracting archives page, and he’s RSS feed system is very cool indeed. Of course I can’t forget the fact that he’s got the crazy drop down menu both at the top and bottom, which again is very inspired.

From the design front I really like what he’s done for sifting through his comments and comment form. Whenever I think about this I always wonder why I never actually actively post comments on different sites. I do have certain things to say, but I guess I get lazy. Still though this is something I’ve noticed about my blogging and blog-reading manner. Mental note start commenting on people’s blogs more.