Introducing Digital Inspiration v2.0

The new design looks good. I don’t like the new logo - but guess that’s my personal opinion. Anyways, looks good!

PS: The favicon shows the old logo, I suppose you should change it to the new one ?

The site layout is great… love the logo and tagline integrated with it. Just noticed the forums has the theme of old site.. any thoughts about re-designing it?

“Site we like” looks stunning! Congrats on the site re-design..! Cheers!

Hey,
I dont really find a WOW look when compared to the old look, may be i think we are all addicted to see labnol in the older look, and this time we see more ads and less content isnt it?
One thing i liked the most is this section - link
Regards
Amit Bhawani

I thought i landed somewhere else..

Good work anyways.
Any specific meaning for “tech a la carte” ?

And can you share what tool you used to make that hierarchy of “Sites we like”?

I like the new design it’s look cool.

Greetings from Dominican Republic.

One word “Awesome”. The new look is definitely great. Simple, neat and nice on eyes. Congratulations for this amazing v2.0 :)

it looks awesome!!! I thought I had typed the wrong site today.. the theme looks much less clutter now, I like the new slogan.. a la carte.

Remove “« back to front page” links on top

hi Amit,
the new design is very nice… this looks more professional + beautiful than the earlier on. also the site organization is good…
congratulations for v2.0

This new design is really looking cool and gives DI a fresh look. The previous one was kinda boring now.

I like it, very clean and nice. Good job!

Great! I love your new design. It is more professional than the old one.

Amit!
What do you mean by “Sites We Like”?
How many people write on this blog?
Shouldn’t it be sites I like

Amit - I like the new, more sophisticated look.

Nice design and professional look. The logo is neat and I realise you have done away with most of the adsense ads coming inside the posts earlier. Now they have been placed cleverly without obstructing the content. This makes an easier read. Another observation is that there is no tags, or categories of posts. If I was a new reader and wish to find out what all you write about, I’d miss that. Sure the Related Articles and Recent Articles help, but categories would be helpful. Or did I miss it?

Amit, I love this new design. Labnol does not look congested like before. You should probably add more tabs to the “Most Recent Articles” widget on the right sidebar. Tabs like “Recent Comments” and “Top Articles” would be good. Did you get someone to do this new design for you or was it done by yourself?

Amit, the language translation feature is cool. Can you tell me how you did it? Was it some tool or was it self-developed?

Nice change to the site.

All the best.
Cheers,
link

Amit .. the new layout looks slick. It is easy on eyes and carries a professional look.
Just a question, I cant seem to locate archives / category names or things like that.. was it intentional to leave the user to browse recent articles ?

The new design look very good. I really “Sites we Like”.

Neat layout. Tech River doesn’t seem to be flowing right now. About and Contact tabs are usually found on the top right corner in most blogs. Looking a little out of place in the top left corner.

How come Google Operating System is missing under Google?

First, this looks awesome. And second, thanks for including me in your recommended reading list.

Your blog has definitely been one of my best finds.

I just can’t tell what a refreshing look it is. The layout looks great and less cluttered. However, I think it took a longer time to load then the previous one. Dunno, may be just my computer.

The tech river of news is in mobile format which produces small fonts. I’d love it if the fonts are bigger there.

The new logo looks cool. Did you design it yourself ?

Overall, it’s a nice and probably a long awaited change and the site navigation in this new design is much easier.

Cheers,

Abhijeet

Great improvement, Amit! Congratulations

1) Light years doesn’t have anything to do with time , its a unit of distance .

2) Logo , Tabs and navigation are pretty good . Why not add an IRC / Chat section (like the one I have on my site).

3) Colors sucks big time . It’s kinda ‘too boring’ - no offense. A quick read at smashing magazine will help.

4) I love the ‘Sites we like’ section - thanks a lot.

5) Overall : Your site design is… too ordinary . What I’m tryin to say is the content you write deserves a better design :)

Amit,

Congrats. You have put lot of work in here. Thats great.

I tested your website from a dial-up connection. It takes along time to load. I think this design is violating the 4-second rule. Also the header loaded only after all the other things. In my voice, the header should load first…

Then the ‘Sites We Like’ section is rocking.. I never found anything like that before.

But the TechRiver Page is not up to the mark. It need more work- it think its half baked.

The adds at the footer of the first page does not suit there well. Try adding a border for the google adds there.

I can see that you have 30k readers now. All the very best.
Arun.

The new design looks quite good and is much better than the older one, also the sites we like is really good.

Also like the information flow in this design, pretty easy to devour now.

and i guess i m the first one to comment on this new look.. nice one amit.. liked it.. very neat…!!

Well Amit, love the new sections but not the redesign completely. The previous one had an overflow of information with the sidebars being thinner and now, the compromise seems to be on the main content area - though I am sure that may not be the case technically but even then, somehow I feel I lose something now. the new design is more Web 2.0ish and strangely, doesn’t leave a mark. May be the same thing but different layout or the css change might change my pov but then again, maybe its just me :)
Scares me - my words prove that feeds are better because more emphasis is on content only. Ouch.

The new design and logo definitely looks good, the choice of color is also good on the eyes.

I also liked the way the sites we like is laid out, definitely makes it easier to find the best sites in different categories.

Haven’t seen any problems yet but will update if I do.

welcome to Digital Inspiration v2.0

What are you using for blogging now? Word Press? or something else?

It looks great! Keep up the good work.

Congrats Amit Sir.
The new looks are awesome.

Looks so much more better, what lacks in your blog is interaction. say, top commenter, chat box, some flickr photos, trackbacks, … i guess it you need to make other bloggers felt like they’re part of ur blog…

Digital Inspiration’s new look is great great and great!! DI is one of very few websites that I NEED to check daily:)Love DI.

Amit,
Your old design is much better than the new one. This looks like just another wordpress blog and here are few of my observations
1) There are no boundaries. Its like everything mixed up. Not able find out where the body ends and side bar starts. no seperation of posts, no seperation of side bar content.
2) Color combination is not so great. Most of the colors are slightly varying. So it looks like everything mixed up.
3) the header menu(text menu links) color is quite odd. At times it looks the page start from there and makes me to ignore the logo and anything above that
4) The adsense ads blow the header are like sub navigation. Hope this is going definetly do we in terms of CTR. (your site is known for not being ad savvy…but its the other case now right)
5) Coming to the body content & comments, the background is white and text color is gray. I believe this color combination makes me to loose my sight if keep reading all the interesting stuff you right every day. may be a more contrasting color like pure black might do well.

I hope with small fixes you can make this template an excellent one. Wish you all the best.

I love the redesign. It’s very slick and clean.

Your “Sites We Like” is an attractive way to present a useful resource. You’ve inspired to see how I might do this for my blog’s niche.

Nice design Amit!!

Nice Changes Done

Wonderful new design Amit bhai :)

Increases readability and looks appealing

Hello Amit.

Congratulations on the new design. The colour scheme is looking great and the elements have been placed very well. I especially like the logo.

The comments are looking well arranged as compared to DI version 1.0 . The footer is well designed and utilized in better way than before, and it stands out due to the light colour used.
Only thing I would like to recommend is if possible make the links in footer stand out by using a different colour than the text. I see if you hover over the link it shows, but for “naked eye” its difficult to determine where the link lies, if the colour is the same as text. Just a suggestion.

The sites we like section is awesome and its really an excellent resource for a geek to read from!

I was wondering when would you update your blog design and I am very pleasantly surprised with what I see here!

Once again, hearty congratulations! :)
Keep up the excellent work!

hi amit,
this is cool. the color combination is more soothing to the eyes than the previous.

i want to know more about “CLOUD AV”….

i heard it is a mixture some anti-virus

Congratulations for the new design ! This looks more impressive than the previous one!

The site has a nice trendy look. Very well revamped. Looking forward to your posts.

Hello Amit sir. This new look is awsome. I feel jealous about it. BTW it seems you are no longer usng Wordpress as ur platform. May I know which blogging platform u are using now?

Amit,
Seems to be something wrong with the adsense ads displayed at the end of the post. Your site java script folder is added at the begining of the adsense ad target url.. I’m not sure whether this is an issue or not. i have not tried clicking them.here is the sample url…

link .

looks great Amit. and it is close to be IE8 ready to boot. very small niggles.. :P

:) I think techcrunch needs to get over here for some inspiration. Your blog looks so cool and the ’sites we like’ section is nicely innovated. Keep up the standard.

your blog looks better than before. White background is better than red for eyes. and the arrangement of centents is perfect for seo. at least.. i think so.

Amit! Cool design
Once quick suggestion. In the sites we like page, on the mouseover, why not have some tips/description about each blog link?! Just a thought

Amit, I like the new design. It’s… well… VERY different. But finally Web 2.0ish. Very nice.

New design for sure is better than previous one. However, I get the feeling of lack of focus and grip in this theme while reading content.

Probably you can try increasing font of related and recent post. Also, test if verdana font in post would look better or not.

‘Sites we like; page is very good. Also, how about adding pagination next button at the bottom part of homepage?

when i open the site it shows me the mobile version first. I click on desktop but it loads the mobile version again. i click on any link and it still gives me the old labnol. i am using fx on ubuntu.

Why can’t I view the new theme?

Now I know why i couldn’t see the new theme. are you using a plugin like wp-super cache? the cache hasn’t got updated, I guess.

I could view the new design only after I posted a comment.

Amit, I am still getting the old design (no browser caching) or the mobile edition for the homepage. Some posts actually do display in new design though.
Am I doing something wrong?

You may have problems with Super Cache - one of the old design, new design or the mobile edition get cached and served for all requests.

Congratulations Amit, the design is almost perfect But I have noticed that the google ads below the post send to an error page through labnol.org.

Amit the new logo is excellent, i like the new logo, and i think it will be well suited for blog favicon. I see only part of your blog is updated with new template, when will you update the whole blog?. Your blog new style is amazing. I think the Italians have designed it. I think some fella asked your old template for his blog and you have said you will keep the old template for download when you use new template, i think this is the time for you(i have read in the forum).

Very clean and readable. I like your logo, as well. This reminds me of how seldom i visit a site once i have it on Rss. I mean I AM visiting, but not really via the site page. Rss helps us thru a busy day, but it robs us of the design of a site. I’ll have to change my habits. Good job, and thanx for all you do for us users of tech.

Looks great!
But the content is what has me watching daily for your email. Can find something in every one that makes my addiction the the desktop seem less tedious or boring.
Thanks

I’m still seeing the old design on the home and single pages :(

I’ve cleared cache, gone to the stylesheet and refreshed. Still seeing older design.

Is it that the older design has not been applied for home and single pages?

[I'm on Firefox 3, Windows]

I’m still getting the old design as well even after clearing the cache

Design is good. But more of ads is making the site less appealing… Old one was lot better..

Me too can’t see the new theme.

Hi Amit Sir,
Great new look.Have been an avid reader of your content for a while. Very readable and easy to navigate. Look forward to trend spotting on your blog!

Regards,
Hemant

Amit,
Light year is not a measure of time. Its a measure of distance…anyway…nice design

Damn! I loved the old look. That made your website stand out. Nice work though. But old was better.

its good but the theme is not to look great ,old look is prety than new one.

Nice theme Amirt.
“Site we like” Page looks stunning!
Gr8 Work

Hi, I am still getting the old design.

Light year is a unit of distance ;).

Same here - still see the old design in Firefox 3 and IE 7 on the PC - no cache issues either, refreshed a million times, purged all possible caches locally.

I noticed something today…

When I opened link , it reaches the page with the newly designed themes.

But when I click on the articles or type link , I am getting the old layout.

Anybody with similar problems..?

I like the design. Bu then I am a “normal” user, not a design expert. Is it possible to know who designed it? Or which theme it’s based on?
I did notice that the “Sites We like” section spells WSJ wrong (at the very bottom).

Seems fantastic, Its good to be new over a period again.

Amit, new website look stunning, consider 3 Column Layout though, will engage more users along with more content..

Hey Amit,
I like the new design, congrats man!!

Greetings from South America

The new look and features are awesome!

But I found that look/ layout is for homepage only. Even I am reading this post with old layout.

Cheers!
- Dipak

I am using my mobile phone to browse labnol, and I am still getting your old theme.
Anyway, screenshot of the theme is impressive and can realy give some freshness to your readers..

Congrates for the new look and features, they are awesome!

But I see the OLD look/ layout for this post only.. how come?

Cheers!
Dipaka

Its very nice to see DI in a new look after a long time.. The new look is great..

Hi, design is simple and clean. Is it possible to keep the design template for download?

That’s why DI has been so quite in the last few days.

The new layout looks awesome!

Amit,
The new design looks great.
Congratulations !
But, I am still getting the old one.

Wow.. really nice design..
gives me a more professional feeling.. sure this is gonna take over TechCrunch one day

well done amit

I like the following aspects in the new design:

1. The logo and the tag-line are excellent and gives you a branding, which you didn’t have in the previous design.
2. The “Sites We Like” tree layout is very appealing.
3. I always liked the 2 column layout for a blog.

I don’t like the font/color scheme in the main body. Also, the side bar seems to distract the focus when reading the main content. I don’t know why. Probably a little background on the side bar may help?

The “Sites we like” section looks amazing. The new logo looks pretty good too. Overall, the site’s look and feel is pretty good and definitely better than the earlier one.

Hey congrats for this new make over!!
IMO The bg color could be more darker to throw a bright effect on white, anyways, I think its a right time to come up with new theme. Good work all over!
zazo.

The new look is amazing. I think a reader asked for the old template of your blog, then you said that you will keep it for download when i use new skin for my blog. If so then this is the right time to do.

my reply submited befoor has gone…why? I just wanna tell u the layout is good.

After Saturday there was a break, So I guessed some thing great is in pipeline.So I am right,But I feel DI v1.0 was better for looks, DI v2.0 has got many resources. Look doesnt matter for a great blog like yours, Good Work

WOW!!!!!!..the only word that came out of my mouth.

hey amit …..good job bro……. if u cud only do sum changes with the color????
otherwise the site is superb….
best wishes……
rahul…..

weird.. i didn’t post the comment the way its displayed here. I said i am using firefox on ubuntu and getting the mobile page plus when i open the site it shows me the old design. hmmm… comment moderation for what?

The new design is very nice and professional.
The best part I like is DI logo.

Change is good. I was looking forward to it for a while now..

Could you add a separate RSS feed for the Tech River section? coz its very useful.. Thanks

very nice design. Love it!

Congratulations Amit on the new design! Just love it.

Saw a glitch in the design I think; The “Most Recent Articles” RSS button in the sidebar is getting cut from below.

Everything else rocks!

Cheers!

Nice new format, I’m certainly going to take inspiration from your top-right menu items. Odd looking linear comment form though…

Dave

PS Where’s Sciencebase.com in your Sites we like section? ;-)

Hi Amit,

The new look is neat… but its not attractive… quite dull… wuld appreciate if u change the background color changed or the menu color changed to give the blog a standout look…. and the new logo is good.. but the font used in digital inspiration would look a lot better if they were not in small letter rather capital ones… caz you are projecting as a serious blogger… and u’r logo has to project that boldness …
its just my suggestion… if u find it useful u can try it out… or else no worries i will still read your post… caz you got the stuff :)

Light Year is a unit of DISTANCE, not time :)

First TC,then Scribd and now Labnol(all these got a recent facelift)
Gr8 to see a changed look.I think,this was much needed for labnol.
As far as suggestion is concerned,i think,you should show up best of labnol of the week in the right column and give easy accessibility to older articles as well.

Hey Amit,

I like the new design … the look is cool & nice & professional … good job. The new logo looks pretty good too ..

Greetings from Denmark

Amit, congratulations on this milestone. I like the new look. Just one minor suggestion though. How about putting in a bit more color for posted comments. Even otherwise it looks very good.

Cool ‘Look i like it,..i neeed 2 change my Blog look also……..i think,….did u design it ur self?And i like your Tips Thnaks a lot keep it up…… :))

THE LOGO IS COOL AMIT

BUT THE TEMPLATE… MAY B WE MUST GET USED TO IT

BUT I FIND LESSER NUMBER OF ADVT’S IN THIS TEMPLATE

Hi Amit, congrats for the new look, it looks wonderful.

However the translations links on the right don’t seem to work (Bad Request - Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request).

Also I would like to have a question. As you always wrote that its the left sidebar that is the most suitable for AdSense, so should we go for the similar themes like this or use the orthodox 3 column themes ?

yes good, more attractive

Hi Amit,

It is very very good, but for me but I could not adjust with this change suddenly. still I love the old one.

1. Home page you may add <<No>> Comments for each post.
2. Text color light black is still very very light, you may change to some black.
3. New DI2.0 Icon is very good. Window Favi Icon has not yet been changed to new DI2.0 icon.
4. RSS reader count at top bar is not displaying that much good. There You might provide like to RSS.
5. “« back to front page ” What is this. It is appearing even in homepage.
6. The Footer is well designed then before.
7. The Google search button is black and in blue at footer.
8. “Your email is here” is not re appearing after loosing the focus from text box.
9. Transilator to Hindi and some other languages is not working. for Hindi some exception is being thrown.
10. Top Bar Menu manu may include “Categories” text and submenu with all category (label) items.

Thanks,
Dutt
http:msdotnetsupport.blogspot.com

After posting the comment,page is loading very very slow.

Thanks,
Dutt

I did like new Text Size feature. it is very good.

Wow Amit…this is the way to go.

Congratulations! Amit, The new design is cool and refreshing.

As regards suggestions,
1) I think the new design takes a lot of time to load and the header loads at last, which s’d load first.

2) Also, the font-size of headers in sidebar s’d be increased

New version is simple superb and good Work Amit..

Cheers!…

But sometimes when i tested the google translated link in the home pages.. its not working.. kindly check this out..

Thanks and keep posting your good amicable articles…

The new look is quite sophisticated. And gives a feel of a good new blog. Change the favicon. Its not that appealing but soothing to eyes.

No suggestions in mind as of now. If any would let you know.
Happy Blogging!!

its cool.its good.keep it up.
(In the first sentence you have mentioned “light years”.Light years is a measure of “distance” and not “time” !)

wooooow just lovable it’s very nice.

It seems as if your moving from generic blog template design to more profound “website look.” The design is OK. But information are scattered and does not grab attention. New features included are cool!

wonderful design…

can u give the subscription form code ?

hey amit looks good, did you do any testing before rolling out the new design? like say with Google Website optimizer? if not would strongly recommend it, assuming of course you still have the older version archived away. I like the layout, cleaner, simpler and more wistful of the good times :) but I don’t like to scroll down to reach the ‘recent articles’ box. My suggestion: scrunch up the feed ‘n social media widgets, and the email sub box beneath the menu ribbon and shift Meet the Author to the menu. But at the end of the day its all about fresh sizzling scrumptious content, and that my friend, you do deliver on! So whatever the design I’ll still come. :)

your new template is very good but your blog dosen’t look like a proffessional blog. You should modify this template to make it more beautiful.
But your logo is better than old version.
Anyways if you’re using this template then please make your older template available for download for free. If you do that , we would love it.

It has a real “CLEAN” look as compared to the older design. Love it. Don’t put excessive links and widgets on your site. It will again have a cluttered look.
And I would really like to thank you for the wealth of information you have provided to me over the years. I really appreciate it.
Thanks.

Mind Blowing… Seems that Amit Sir had done a quite research before creating this awesome layout.

Hey..Amit..I really thought u should change ur website design..before I make it a point u hav done it..nice design..make the content good as well :)

Hhehehe gr8 designing… I think Now I should copy this one…… hehehehhe……….

Mobile version of old page for me, too, with both Opera and Firefox… it’s not cache, I deleted it.

looks good…this might actually be time saving for me.

It is taking too much time to load on my firefox browser. Somehow this looks more congested as compared to earlier Avatar

The new design in not looking good.Its looking like a fake sites like “When some persons block some domains they make sites like this design only”.Particularly the navigation bar and logo.Of course I’m not a gr8 blogger like you.But what I feel I said it.But links[Tools] are useful.

great look , like some popular blog

Amit, I like your clean new design, even though I need to say, that I loved the old one, as well. For the guy like you, who is always serving us by so many ultra-cool advices, tips and practical tricks, it’s really not so important the look, but the content:) I still remember your old Blogger blogspot blog. I also miss your old loge of Digital Inspirations.
Best regards from London!

This new design is good but i prefer the older design as it was unique.I have seen many sites using this design.I am surprised to see labnol changing its design after it has established itself as one of the popular blogs in Internet.

Hello Amit! What is happening? On 8/29/08 I made a comment on your new blog design. I used my name as “Personal Web Mate” and my original comment was “It seems as if your moving from generic blog template design to more profound “website look.” The design is OK. But information are scattered and does not grab attention. New features included are cool! But the comment shows that it is written by some one with name “shcv” and my name is above someone else’s comments.

New design is awesome and great, nice combination of colors…. great……. :)

Its Great Design and Nice stuff to read as well.

Just one word for this… Awesome :D
It is loads better than the red theme, and is faster too :)

Hi Amit,
This looks cool compared to old version… especially the log..however i think css could have been improved to make site even better and attractive…

I like it! The overall navigation is a lot smoother and the site seems a lot less cluttered.

The color scheme could use some work though - maybe throw in some bright hues of red, blue or black? You know, get that sleek, glossy feel…

Keep up the good work!
Eric

Amit, looks great. I like the new layout much better — much more polished looking. And I really enjoyed the “sites we like” map. Great idea!

I m late to visit the new site . Sorry !

I liked it a lot … its eye-catching and user friendly !! Thanks to designer team and you !

what a coincidence!! I am seeing same Google sidebar ads what u picked in ur design mockup above :-)

Truly speaking I was fan of old design..
Colors on this new theme are not that effective..

but anyway the old design was there for ages..it was time to change it..
will expect few more changes over the time..

Thanks and regards,
Vijay

Maybe I got used to the ‘classic’ DI look ;). This one looks like ‘just another tech blog’. Anyways it does not really matter. I read your posts 99% of the time using feeds. Whenever I landed here to post a comment or something, the blogger commenting system was always a put-off. Now hope to see interesting discussions on your posts further.
Congratulations and Thank you.

wow ho..do I need to tell you that this one is much more professional? Who was the designer anyway and how much did this cost you?

great look..by the way, light year is a measure of distance and not time :P

I am sure, u knew that, but was just kidding!

Layout is very good. But colors are not good not much reader friendly (not able to find out what I want as fast as in old layout). You should seriously think about colors.

Hey Amit, in earlier comments I commented that I could not adjust with this change still I feel old one is good for me.

but Now I feel this is more and more comfortable to read the conent, after spending much time on your site with this new theam.

Thanks,
Dutt
link

looks great, awesome.
I searched google to find this announcement. :D

the map and extras are great :)
Best wishes.