Comments on: Croftie Does The Django

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mike, I'm totally flattered. I have no idea why you wasted your time writing this, but I thank you immensely. Only one complaint: of all the beautiful girls in my photostream that you could have chosen to link to (you know, like my girlfriend), why oh why did you have to choose that one? :) (Editor's Note: I was actually looking for a very embarassing one I remember seeing several days ago. Lucky for you, I found the Tammy Fae one instead.)

By: Brad Smith

Brad Smith — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jeff’s redesign is the most amazing personal site design I have seen in some time. As someone who has spent nearly two years now trying to come up with a design for his personal site, stuff like this inspires. At the same time, it also reveals how much work I need to do to produce something anywhere near as good as this. Bravo!

By: Chad Edge

Chad Edge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m so not prepared for this. I only had time to change my downtown plans for tomorrow.

How far out of the loop am I that I hadn’t heard about reboot – nor the naked day?

Damn. Time is short.

By: Miko W.

Miko W. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mike, have you seen Bryan's reboot yet?

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Miko: Yep… and I’m starting to notice a common theme already in many of the reboots — light text on dark backgrounds. Interesting for sure, but I have to admit that readability is much tougher to achieve with such a palette.

By: Volkher Hofmann

Volkher Hofmann — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It is the “new” use of diverse technologies that makes this reboot a standout before I’ve seen any of the other ones. Very inspiring although without any programming experience worth mentioning, it’ll be a very hard for many others to break out of the template mould like jeff did.

No matter what, it’s a fantastic site!

By: Zeerus

Zeerus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I personally love JustKyle the color scheme is amazing. The same goes for MattBretts redesign. I "realigned" (horrible word, I know) my portfolio, but I'm not happy with it.

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I also love Kyle’s color scheme. That’s a beautiful looking redesign, no doubt.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Agree. Jeff’s definitely gone over the top with this one, and it suits him fine.

By: Daniel David

Daniel David — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m with Chad on this one. Didn’t hear about the CSSReboot. I did hear about CSS naked day, but I forget when that was supposed to be.

Anyway, great work Jeff, I had never seen your site before but I think I’ll be following along now. If Mike likes it, it must be good.

By: Rob Goodlatte

Rob Goodlatte — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, I really like Jeff’s new site. It’s has a subtraction.com-esque vibe, but with a lot more life built into it.

The other rebooters I’ve seen so far have been damn impressive as well. Bryan Veloso’s new site is the hotness, although it’s a bit hard to navigate. You can tell these guys put a ton of work into this stuff, especially since Croft wrote his own CMS.

By: Brian Ford

Brian Ford — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Heheh, great update to my illustration — it suits Jeff perfectly.

I had lots of crazy ideas for what I wanted to do but Jeff is a task-master with a vision that I could not deviate from. If we had been in the same room, I’m pretty sure he would have physically smacked me to get things the way he wanted them.

(Actually; we only went through 2 updates and he okayed my second version with great enthusiasm. I’m happy to see it making it’s way around — and particularly happy to see it featured on mikeindustries.)

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

His search thingy is fantastic!

By: Alexander Micek

Alexander Micek — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is the best redesign since Mr. Bowman redesigned Stopdesign.

By: Marc b

Marc b — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am loving the live search capability and the premise of it… but one has to ask, how useful is it ?

Initital tests – not really very useful at all.
Jeff, I am not trying to rain on your parade here – I think you have done an outstanding job with your redesign. And I also love the layout of the search results.
Minus a couple of niggles.

* No printback of what the term searched was
I typed in the word “saturn” for something that i would be sure not to bring back any results. To my amazement, it brough back 3 blogs with some hundreds of other posts . Same with bookmarks.

This cant be right… Was it really seaching for saturn…?

* Not searching for the right word
I typed in saturn as fast as i could. I can touch type at a fair clip. I was amazed that saturn returned so many results, so i added an s to the end. “saturns” returned no results. Fair enough so i took the s off and waited for the previous results.

Turns out saturn returned no results either…So what is the live preview actually showing the first time round?

I am not trying to crucify you, especially if this is just a reboot glitch. But it seems that all this fuss over something that doesnt provide any real value is a tad misplaced?