Comments on: TAB Redesign

By: Yebot

Yebot — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:37:29 +0000

Dang, that’s quite a chunk of change!

Awesome show! Great job!

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:26:50 +0000

How much money do you make from ads on The Apple Blog?

Four bagillion dollars per day.

By: Yebot

Yebot — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:55:14 +0000

How much money do you make from ads on The Apple Blog?

By: Sue Anderson

Sue Anderson — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:15:50 +0000

I think the design is fabulous and don’t mind the ads at all but then I’m a pragmatist: how long do you think you’d be able to publish without advertisers? — and they won’t buy if they think their ad won’t be seen when placed in some obscure corner

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:50:33 +0000

@Patrick, apologies if people took what I said as “yelling”…that wasn’t my intention. More just frustrated with many people’s mindset on internet advertising. So to anybody that wishes to discuss that further, just email me and we’ll chat.

As for me and ad blockers, I most certainly do not use any sort of ad blocker. I respect other publishers desire/need to profit off of their time/effort and so not blocking the ads and helping them just a little bit is the least I can do.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:47:13 +0000

Nice design! I agree on the ads issue, it takes cash-money to keep a massive site up and running. But yelling at your members probably is more detrimental for you the next time they read an article you post.

Either way, very nice design and I love the on-the-fly comment preview. Also Josh, do you use ad blocker when you visit other “content” sites?

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:04:55 +0000

In response to the ‘josh’ who left ‘constructive’ feedback. We could be an F-grade mac news site for all I care. Why is that? Because we aren’t a news site. We’re a content site. We don’t just report news. We report opinions, thoughts, likes, dislikes, reviews, and occasionally news.

By: Stretch

Stretch — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:26:32 +0000

Love the new look. Its much cleaner.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:35:51 +0000

to the ‘josh’ who didn’t leave any contact information on his ‘constructive’ comments -
since i can’t email you back, what in your opinion makes TAB a ‘b-grade mac news site’?

We don’t feel like regurgitating every little apple item that you can find on a dozen other blogs – how does that make us stand out? We [usually] try a little harder to put some thought and commentary into the stories we post. I think most of our readers recognize that and come here for just that reason.

Anywho – if you’ve got any actual ‘constructive’ points you’d like to make, ie, things you think aren’t being done to your expectations, please share…

way to go on the design Josh. it’s definitely head and shoulders above V1 and 2.

By: kOoLiNuS

kOoLiNuS — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:01:53 +0000

nice work ….. you have accomplished what I had in my mind into customizing the K2-theme on my italian (and principal) blog.

i’m with the party of “strimmed down” width of the ads ….. they distract too heavily from the main content …

By: Peter Garner

Peter Garner — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:55:16 +0000

There are ads on the site? Honestly, I just don’t see web advertising anymore. My eyes slide over them like they were made of teflon.

The site looks good. Nice job.

By: Chris Holland

Chris Holland — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:21:56 +0000

heh heh the date “graphic” isn’t a graphic :) it’s all semantic xhtml css, which is even cooler :) Josh knows a thing or two about web development.

and i’m really not kissing ass, ‘cuz really, i don’t have a reason to. heh.

By: Okie Jim

Okie Jim — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:07:43 +0000

I think the new design looks great. I love the date graphic. The site looks fresh and new.

By: Radu Dutzan

Radu Dutzan — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 05:29:11 +0000

I think it’s nice. It really is cool that you run this whole site by yourself for nothing besides Ad revenue, so the least we can do to give you something back is at least have the ads there and, even, just plain ignore them (but a few clicks wouldn’t hurt, would them?)

The Ajax on the comments is also a great touch from K2, one of the great stuff that comes with the theme. The content looks much more cleaner and I just noticed that comment auto-preview and it’s great. How do you do that, btw? Is it a plugin?

By: josh

josh — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:40:59 +0000

I read quite a few mac news sites and TAB is one that I read the least. Why? – There are way too many ads (tell me – why did google succeed again?) If you have quality content you can get by with smaller and less brash advertising techniques. I have enjoyed past articles on TAB but I find it a real b-grade mac news site compared to macslash/spymac/daringfireball. I hope this is taken constructively and helps you to redefine how TAB is used.

By: Phil Bowell

Phil Bowell — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:21:08 +0000

I like the new design. I think part of the reason you are getting complaints about the adverts is the fact that this post is a short post so they appear all in a big clump. if the post was longer I’m guessing the smilies add would be further down the page and further away from your sponser ads.

One solution could be to house the ads in an Ajax type collapsable box. With the default set as open all the time. When people visit if they find the ads distracting all it takes is one click to close them up.

Just a thought.

Congrats on the design though, it looks good so far.