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A Whiter Shade of Pale (Blue)
Oh hey! We have a new layout now. It’s a little different than the one we’ve had for the last two years, but we think you’ll like it. As our publisher Jake Dobkin put it on Gothamist:
The goal of the new design was to make our…content easier to read, and to make the site as a whole easier to use. The content area is now better visually defined (with borders!) and we’ve moved all the important site functionality to the top of the page, where it should be easier to find. Additionally, we’ve migrated Gothamist to the newest Movable Type software. That should make the site faster and more stable, and allow us to add new features over the next year. A big and well-earned thanks is due to Neil, who has been working on this relaunch for several months, and to our friends at Six Apart Services, who assisted him on the project.
All of those things are true. But while the layout is new and improved it’s not entirely finished just yet. There are still a few things that aren’t as they will be or ought to be–the exact colour palette may not be the one we end up sticking with, there are a few broken links and broken features, and for some reason em dashes and en dashes currently show up as hyphens in posts which is really the worst thing of all–but take some time, explore, and then do let us know what you think and what you’d improve or tweak in the (much improved) comments section that accompanies this post. And yeah, comments finally work again, too, so feel free to continue debating this past year’s heroes and villains, too.