Do you know what’s funny? We changed the design of the website two weeks ago, and not one person has uttered a word about it.
No feedback? No “love it” or “hate it” remarks? What’s up with that?
My designer called today and asked for feedback from all of you about the site, and I had to tell him I hadn’t heard a peep from anyone. Now he is depressed and thinking of a new career!
So, let’s help him out and give him some feedback. Tell me what you think of the new site design.
In this corner, we have a BlackBerry weighing 6.2 ounces. In that corner, we’ve got an iPhone weighing 8.1 ounces.
The iPhone has texting that you can do with your fingers that is a self-predicted type, but your fingers can’t be too big to get that little keyboard to work. The BlackBerry Pearl has predictive type where they actually choose words for you. The BlackBerry Curve doesn’t have the predictive typing, but it’s bigger so you’re able to type really fast on it.
Now the question is: Which device is best for text fighting? Text fighting is the newest thing in dating.
It’s a wonderful thing. You’re in the middle of an argument with the person you’re dating and they leave the house. Do you remember the good old days when you got into a little argument with your significant other, you walked out of the house and you were able to not talk to that person again until you were ready?
Well that is no more, because now there is the phenomenon of text fighting. Text fighting is wonderful because the second they walk out the door you can send them a text. Why walk out the door like that?
Not only that, but you can continue text fighting for hours. You can do it while you’re watching television. You can text fight while driving (although it’s not a brilliant thing to do and against the law in California). You can even do it at the office.
You can consistently text fight for hours — back and forth, circles and circles, round and round. If you’re really good at texting, you can almost text them as quickly as they text you back. Some of you are so fast you can have three texts for every one of theirs.
Fights used to last five or ten minutes. Your lover would leave, you’d have a few hours to cool off, and by the time they got home you’d both apologize because you’d realize both of you were being an ass.
Now-a-days with text fighting, though, you can continue a fight for long periods of time and even turn the original fight into other fights. Not only that, but text fighting gives each person proof of what an ass they were being during an argument. With text fighting, you can go back and re-read the texts you sent in anger, re-live each angry text.
It’s so destructive! Things that are said in anger should never be thrown back in somebody’s face. Things that are said in anger — whether they come out of your mouth or out of a BlackBerry — should be deleted right away.
They should never be re-read again, because we all say stupid things in anger. We all say stupid things at the wrong moment. You should never hold anyone to what they said in anger.
So if you do get into a text fight, delete those negative texts. Delete them immediately, because they’re just going to bring more unnecessary bad stuff into your relationship.
srry david xD i love the new one and im not just saying i really did notice it but since so many websites change their sites from now and then i see it as a normal thing but really i love it!
new color and everything man!
see ya around!
After being a web host and designer for 8 years, changing websites is no big deal and it rarely brings in good comments. Most of the time, when you change things you end up confusing your steady customers who know their way around the site, and they don’t like it. New people don’t know there was a change and the ones who adapt easily, don’t care either way. Personally, as someone who did online sales for a long time, I know that people sell better than words. On the old site, your face was on every page and that usually helps build confidence, trust and brand recognition, because in this case, “you are the brand”. I’m not saying I liked the old design better because I’m one of those adaptable customers. But I think the new design is cleaner but less suited toward building your brand.
First, I’ll say that I have just recently stumbled across your site about a week ago, and am glad I did! You have a well-rounded perspective and that’s very refreshing. You seem to be geniunely passionate and well-suited for what you’re doing, so please keep up with the great entries!
Secondly, since I’ve only recently discovered your site, I wouldn’t know that it was newly redesigned. Regardless, I would say that everything looks very well put together. The site loads quickly, and the color palette is pleasant, yet easy on the eyes. Apparent that someone put some time and effort into it. So tell your designer to cheer up!
I liked what Todd said about lowering your photo profile. I agree. More David.
Other than that, I liked the old green color scheme better, but I like the new layout more. The new layout is easier to access the areas you know about and makes it easier to discover the areas you might have overlooked. Keep the blog as the focus, like you have always done from a front page portal perspective because that is the content that changes daily and will entice readers back every day.
Btw, I didn’t comment because the old site was a recent update as well so I thought this was just a tweak on that design. That and you didn’t announce the big change like you did the last time.
That and the blog is awesome.
Mike
David,
I like the other site better. I think the darker colors does something to the eyes… the brighter green you had seemed more uplifting. Thats just me : )
I always enjoy the content though, regardless.
Agreed with Todd about making your face more prominent to build your brand. The new design seems a little too modern and “Web 2.0″ for me, but maybe that’s just me.
And I’m happy to report I’ve never been in a text fight yet. Arguments should only take place in person, or over the phone at least– text is just so liable to misinterpretation, when communicating with women sometimes can be hard enough!
Hey David,
Great blog today. I’m guilty of text fighting and you have made me reconsider ever doing that again.
Regarding the new look on your site, i have to say it’s looking good, although the background makes this site a bit unapproachable. It doesn’t seem inviting. Perhaps a gentler tone may draw more attention. Another thing that may draw more attention is the option of being able to automatically post this to Facebook. I totally believe that all my (50) friends on facebook would benefit from today’s blog as everyone texts on a daily basis.
Really, that’s all that your site needs. Other than that, i think it’s awesome!
MAC
Hi David,
I have to admit I have fought over texts. The best part, like you said, is just being able to completely ignore the texts.
Love the new website. Something you might want to tell the designer though is that the success stories on the products page (not sure if any where else) flash too fast to read more than a sentence or two. Other than that, I can still click on the blog everyday, so I have no problems with it
Vince
Hey about the new site, I think its really a cool design hope the web guy don’t feel depressed anymore, I actually like this design better than the first one.
never done text fighting mine is more of text fucking:)
oooops totally forgot to mention about your new site, i agree with few other people, cool design.
what made you want to change to this?
about the texting i agree about the importance of not speaking when you are really mad, b/c that’s when we have really ugly things come out of us.
I have a bad experience with ugly words and believe David and myself it can get really ugly.
I feel sometimes the website load slow.
I especially like how the blog is setup, and everyone’s comments get more attention!
thanks for asking for the opinion I feel like we are all part of this, that is the great thing about you David!
I think blackbery is the ultimate for text fighting:)
David- did you ever get that iphone, i remember how bad you wanted one?
I recently got a blackberry storm, love the phone, so far no text fighting yet:)
Jimmi- how much you got it for?
I got it for 50 with the new service plan
hmmmm that’s a good deal.
Hi David. Your designer doesnt have to look for a new career. The website is cool. New colors, more things going on on the page and still user-friendly. It works!
As far as the text fighting goes, I havnt experienced it yet. I’m more of a face-to-face guy, and the cooling off period is important. Sometimes thats all it takes for things to get better again. If I get the chance though, I’ll try it just for fun. Thx David.
Without the plan its kind of expensive you know.
I agree Jimmi- this blog now reminded me that i need to get a new phone, mine isn’t that good for text, its one of those old piece of junk.
Hey David, I actually mentioned that I like your new design on one of your previous blogs. It was on “Playing the Percentages”. I dig it!
It’s too bad, as I said in my previous comment, we don’t get to see your handsome mug. Hahaha. Maybe next time, when you’re old and crusty, you’ll show your mug again on your blog.
“David Wygant, The World’s Oldest Dating Advisor, at the age of 77″
Website’s nice. Blue a fav color of mine.
New layout/color is fine, but it appears a tad sterile. Liked the old way of having a picture to make it look more personal.
Like the look and feel of the new design.
Regarding the new website design. I think the navigation is userfriendly, and the website looks professional. But I definitely liked the colors of your old website better. They were more uplifting. As I’m writing this, all I can see is a white text field, surrounded by a sea of black. Maybe men don’t mind, but as I’m a woman, I feel a bit more color can make a whole lot of difference.
I personally like the new design because it’s cleaner and easier to navigate. I also like that the website now has a streamline look vs the less professional look from the old design.
I do like the idea of having a few more colors… or colors to highlight some areas… and as far as your picture, it’s always nice to have your picture… but where could we put it in this layout?
As far as text fighting goes, I’m happy to say that I’m a text fighting virgin! Never fought over text before.
In the last year plus u have changed website now I think 4 times???
A lot recently– or so it seems to me. love it although I personally think it is a little to dark blue. Not as cheerful looking!!!
Wow do people really have so little to do in life that they spend hours text fighting?? Wake up people!!! Live a little.
As always Great Blog
Hi David,
I think the new design looks better than the old one BUT(!) personally, I prefer to keep a website simple and fast loading. Whenever I navigate to your Blob, my screen first turns black (or dark gray), loads the text and then the white background kicks in. That’s irritating, especially because I am usually sitting in a dark room when I read your blog.
Btw. I got my iPhone 3GS a week ago and LOVE it. Wouldn’t trade it for a Blackberry. And it has a great anti-text-fighting feature as well. It’s called “Flight Mode”…
How about text nagging? I used to hang out with this guy from work every now and then and every time I did his girlfriend would send him a text message every 15 minutes. The more messages she sent the more likely he was to just ignore her.
Oh, and text-flirting. Or sexting! The same guy broke up with his signifigant other and quickly became my sexy-text flirting partner.
“Come over now. I want you inside of me.”
“Last night was amazing…you have the greatest ass”
“You had better be naked when I get there”
Good times. I think I might like cell-phone technology after all.
Oh, and I like the new web design. As a page (printed page) designer I wish the fonts were a bit larger and I’d love a serif font here and there. But the blog copy has a good x-height. I also like a little more room between elements. That way — even with a lot on the page — it doesn’t feel as cramped and urgent. The elements in this sidebar down the right hand side could use a bit of cbreathing room. But I also love the color scheme. Very masculine. And the rounded corners on the element boxes is very sleek without being too hard.
the website is cooooool
ohhhh…wait….. wait.. im away and bit tied up with my work and studies.David, i missed your blogs about 1 week since begining of August… but..but…i aware what is really happening.i do want to feedback your website since last month(middle) if i’m not mistaken
Personnally… i like it very much in term of the design,colors,easy to navigate(More options… but one thing though.. can i suggest all of these pages..may be you can include your photo at left upper corner??
Anyway http://www.davidwygant.com is myhomepage on internet explorer
Cheers,
vern siang
David, the new site is looking great! Very clean and easy to navigate not to mention the professional appeal of the website.
Just one thing to let the designer know. The blog on Safari browsers (on the Mac anyway) has a few bugs.
1) The background has disappeared (it is simply white instead of the dark grey).
2) The “Topics” widget on the right sidebar of the blog is not in the sidebar, but has been pushed onto the right of the sidebar (You can’t see the white links on the white background.
Anyway, the problem only seems to be on the safari web browser but it’s always good to get these things checked out
Keep up the great work David – you changed my life by kicking me out of “POO-AH VILLE”
Daiyaan
THanks for the great feedback and passed it onto my web guy.
Pooahville is a place that no man shall ever venture again:)
I was actually browsing your site when it was first being implemented. Everything was normal for 15odd minutes and then only the blog page changed. In regards to reviewing it:
Deffinately need your face back up! And agreed with most other people, as a dating site the theme is too dark. Sorry! Hope im not being too harsh.
The overall layout is good though (y)
My policy is never to “discuss” anything of emotional importance in an email or a text, and certainly not in anger. For one thing, there are no keys on my keyboard for irony or intonation! Also, my personal energy, after being digitized through the ethernet, is missing essential analog chunks by the time it gets to the recipient. It’s the difference between going to a live concert and listening to a CD. I say wherever possible, go live.