“The green was becoming part of the identity of gadgetopia” “What if you instead made the G a gear like this: http://danhudlow.f2o.org/doodles/gadgetopia.gif“ “The new design top part is a distraction and the content part is not cool! On a white background color everything looks good.” “I’m not thrilled with the inch of space devoted to the gears above the logo.”

–My opinion, I like the new blue but I like blues and shades of blue in sites. Green may be gadgetopia’s color though. Not my decision. –G gear – interesting idea. I like how willing people are to design variations for free. Nice Dan. –Top is not as simple as before. That happens with logo and design. Aesthetics gained. Basic text lost. What would it look like with a white background anyway? May be cleaner. –Yeah, it is an inch or so.

When I worked at Gateway, there was a huge debate about changing the old “G” for the new green colored Gateway. Within 3 months, all who disliked the change initialy loved the new image. Most people hate change…look at your daily routines. You drive the same way to work every day…not because it is the fastest always, but because your mind does it for you. I changed offices this month and already 3 times, I have driven to my old office only to enter the parking lot and U-turn.

Lighten the background just a bit, keep the blue, shrink the logo some and .com a bit more and launch without asking for comments or feedback. If the content of the site remains great as it does, the people will come. I never have come to this site for the greens, simplicity, or layout…I came for content and information.

However, I also agree with Alejandro, the gear graphic in the logo should be smaller.

Nice work.

Also, I’m fine with wanting to use a little bit of graphics in the header, but I’m not thrilled with the inch of space devoted to the gears above the logo. Can you bring the gears out a little more in the section where the logo is?

I’m not a fan of the gears on the G. It looks forced. I agree with the others that the O gear is too large. What about putting the gear inside the O?

Got your favicon ready?

I offer my design services to you. I can make a layout that is clean, simple and professionl. You will only have to mention – Design by MVDmedia.ro on the bottom. What do you think? Of course, it will keep the lines and the identity of the old one but will look how a 2005 website should look. Waiting for your feedback on this.

I love the big gear image, and it would look great at the top of a flyer or something but i don’t like it at the top of the website. The ‘FAT’ image at the top of the blog is, eye catching to start with and certinaly popular, but my personal feeling is it’s ‘passe’.

How’s that for an opinion?

I sort of agree that the green was part of the image, but 2 months after you switched the look to something else, that look would be associated with Gadegetopia. And personally I like the new look better.

Of course one thing you need to consider before switching is what it’s going to cost to have new business cards and letterhead printed, the signs changed at the company headquarters and other locations, plus the logo on the company jet. But first someone should fix the links on the new site. They still don’t work. Who’s the webmaster around here ;-)

http://www.santiinteractive.com/gadgetopia/index3.html

Plus, art3.gif is over 100k! Think of all the poor Gadgetopia geeks with a slooow connection or monthly traffic limits on their broadband….

Large images are used widly in blogs. It´s not negative. But sometimes it distracts the reader from the content.

Anyway, I will visit gadgetopia in future too. Whatever it looks like.

But aside from that, I like it. As long as the text fits in the boxes.

The green was becoming part of the identity of gadgetopia, in my opinion the new one should keep some of that green. I would also make the “O- gear” in the gadgetopia logo a bit smaller.

Site design looks very usable, not deviating really from the current navigational system– which is good, because this one works.