Redesigned my blog — before/after screenshots

Be brutal — I would rather hear it here than from a client.

After six months of evenings and weekends, it is finally ready to show people.

Everything is custom except the CMS, and the CSS is all variables so theming is trivial.

Traffic is tiny so far but the feedback from early users has been great.

Your copy is good, the call-to-action could be higher up.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.

One nit: the contrast on the footer links is a bit low.

Your copy is good, the call-to-action could be higher up.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

Impressive for a solo build.

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

One nit: the contrast on the footer links is a bit low.

Clean design — the whitespace does a lot of work.

Interesting — I will have to try that.

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.

The hero section loads fast, nice job.

Impressive for a solo build.

Your copy is good, the call-to-action could be higher up.

Your copy is good, the call-to-action could be higher up.

Impressive for a solo build.

That has been my experience as well.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.

Your copy is good, the call-to-action could be higher up.

Impressive for a solo build.

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

Interesting — I will have to try that.

Your copy is good, the call-to-action could be higher up.