The New Look Uke Hunt
March 31, 2008
If you’re reading this by email or feedreader, you might want to haul ass to the website and check out the brand spanking new look.
The front page of the site is now a lot less bloggy. But if you prefer the old layout, you can still read it as a blog here.
Take a look around and let me know what you think of it.
I’ve spent the last god-knows-how-long ankle deep in CSS code, but there are probably some parts that don’t work as they should. If you find something, leave me a comment. Unless the comments aren’t working. In which case, shot me an email.
Great new look. This really is becoming a one stop shop for uke. Do I understand it correctly that you are going to move into the uke retail business. Are you some kind of pusher taking advantage of our UAS. Can’t wait for my next fix. Anyway congratulations. BTW some great tab choices recently.
It looks fantastic Woodshed – but then again you rarely put a foot wrong! Nice one, keep up the good work fella, x
Wow, the redesign looks great.
Thanks, Winger. I’ve put feet wrong all over the place. But that’s the only way to learn.
Moocher: I’m not going into retail. Far too much like hard work. I’m not sure exactly what it’ll be (probably should have worked that out first). It’s going to be based on the eBay feed. Hopefully, it’ll be more pleasant to browse. It’s come about because eBay are changing their linking system which will screw up all the eBay links on the site.
I dig the new look. Streamlined and updated. I’ll miss the old look, but this is a step in the right direction.
A couple of things:
I think it’s time to retire that logo. It doesn’t fit with the new look or the techy feel of the icons on the upper right.
Somewhat related to that point, I think you should consider a new logo that says, “ukulele hunt,” instead of “uke hunt,” because “ukehunt.com” redirects to some other site. Keeping both the logo and the URL consistent reduces confusion.
It also has the added bonus of not sounding as rude as “uke hunt” sounds (”you cunt”).
Other than those issues, I think you’re doing a great job with the site, and I’ll keep visiting every day regardless.
wow – it looks great mate :D
I would agree with seeso though- you need to get a new banner/logo sorted Why not have a bit of a rest, and organise a competition? There must be plenty of creatives out there!
I would offer my own graphic design skills were it not for arrival of Zym 2.0 VERY VERY soon ;)
(BTW, i havent forgotten about ‘The wire’)
keep up the excellent work
Zym
It does look great and it’s a good time to say thanks, Woodshed, you’re making the world a better place.
Looks great!
Change?
I can’t deal with change!
Ahhh!
Ah but seriously…it looks righteous.
Good job, homesizzle. I remember coding…it sucked.
It looks like terminal 5 …. I felt at first glance like a kid in a toy shop.
Thank you for making an old man very happy ;-)
Al, looks great! I like it.
I am on the fence abuot the logog but completely with Seeso about the URL thing…not sure we needed it ’spelled’ out for us though Seeso!! LOL!
I think the new look navigation is much more obvious as well.
All good!
i’d probably get rid of the “techy” part of the look, it doesn’t seem to be your style, as far as i can tell by your writing or choice of music…
the navigation is good, i’d just change the techy icons and make the logo bigger.
of course it’s the best ukulele site anyway. good job.
Seeso is a web designer, so he has some very good points. Life is not fair. Seeso has just TOO much talent. I like the new layout. It is very well organizied. But the logo does confuse or misdirect people. If you go to http://www.ukehunt.com, it takes you to worldmusic.com. That is the only issue I see with the site is the logo/URL problem.
I love your daily updates. I do appreciate your efforts. You put a LOT of work into and it shows. There is a reason why you are number ONE.
Keep Strumming, Singing and Smiling,
Terry Truhart
Seeso: I do have an emotional attachment to the old banner, which makes me loath to give it up. Even though it doesn’t fit. I’ll give it some thought.
The name… I don’t know. It’ll always be Uke Hunt to me.
And congratulations on being the first person to use the word ‘cunt’ on the site. I always thought it was going to be me (when I got round to doing a post about Curt Sheller).
zym: I think the online ukulele world is competitioned out at the moment.
dan, Nelson and Elijah: Thanks, guys.
Ritchie: I can’t claim it’s as good as Terminal 5. There’s nowhere you can look up girls skirts… yet.
jules: Definitely with you on the navigation. The old one was a shambles. I might still play around with the lower navbar though.
maduke: Thanks. At the moment, I quite like the look of the icons.
Terry: Do a lot of people just type something into address bar and hope for the best? I don’t think I’ve ever done that.
I’m not a fan. Could you get an old-style skin? It’s harder to find newer stuff. There’s no link to Youkulele, by the way.
Nick: Thanks.
Jimmy: The layout on the blog page is fairly similar to the old one. There’s a link to YouKulele on the bottom right, but it doesn’t seem to be going well. The platform I used to set it up is annoying. It’s a pain in the arse to use, so people mostly don’t.
I heard there was a “name the site” competition and that UkeHunt only narrowly beat out other contenders such as UkeLabia. The original idea, UkeVagina, never really caught on.
It’s a wonderful resource, whatever the name.
Thanks, Shawn. Actually, UkuLabia is damn good name.
Usually I resist all change, but after taking a look around I think you have made a good thing better.
Everything is very well organized, a place for everything and everything in its place. I personally like the way the old logo looks, still. A little of the old to go with the new, right?
As far as the name of the site goes, I would have voted for the euphemistic UkuLadyParts.
Glad you like it, Lonna. I think it still needs a few tweaks. I’m just not sure what they are as yet.
You Brockways are all genitally obsessed.
I like the new style. The design is catchy and neatly arranged. Thist was my first impression and it has been proven by the fact that I found two things I was searching for at first try. Good job!
Thanks, Caruso. I’m glad it helped. One of the reasons I changed it was because it could be hard to find things the old way.
Hah, I thought the “You Cunt” thing was intentional. But seeso’s point about name confusion is valid. Before I had you bookmarked on my My.Yahoo page, I tried to find you by memory at work and I ended up at ukehunt.com. Maybe that domain will open up sometime soon?
I do actually like the logo a lot, and I don’t think it’s as much a problem of the logo itself not fitting with the design, but rather how small it is. I think it would be optimal if you could do something similar to what you have, but a lot wider.
Also, while I’m at it, thanks a lot for that recent post about sheet music. I actually went right ahead and bought one of the pieces you linked to, I’ll See You In My Dreams, just because I thought the cover was neat. Now I have a new song to download, a new song to learn to play, and a new movie for my queue. Thanks a lot, you cunt.
The pun was intentional. I think it’ll be a while before the name becomes available. I was taking a look at it a couple of weeks ago and it was available them. I can’t say it concerns me all that much.
Enjoy you’re sheet music.