Let me be the first to say Welcome Back...

“Welcome Back”

OK.

I can only reach the Comments from the main page. When clicking on “Comments” from the window opened after clicking “Continue Reading this entry”, a 404 error results.

armin, thanks for all the hard work. if it was half as bad as it sounds, you deserve a medal.

i was curious and checked out some of the archives, and i can't seem to access any posts before september 27, 2005. i emptied my cache and tried it on a couple browsers. the comments come up fine, just the post itself is not accessible.

sorry to rain on your high-five parade. or maybe i'm an idiot... wouldn't be the first time.

Chris, thanks for that bug. Fixed.

TJF, old entries are being rebuilt right now. We now have 1,384 entries with 34,000+ comments that need to be "rebuilt" (MovableType term) 100 at a time. I would still be up if I had done that last night. So, eventually, at the end of the day all entries should be accesible.

Great to have you back.

In the meantime, I really enjoyed Bryony's visit to NC last week, as well as hearing your Wizard of Oz disembodied voice comments. Thanks.

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"Remember my info" feature is now working. Thanks to our beloved programmer-friend Su who noticed a boo-boo I made.

Congratulations, Armin. That is no small accomplishment!

My withdrawal tremors are subsiding, and I don't think it will take me too long to get used to the brightness and the bits of little Arial Bold scattered about.

Speak Up, It's great to have you back!

Well done, Armin.

Whew! I was a bit nervous for a bit. Glad everything is working like butter and you're forging ahead.

Looks great! Nice work.

Now I can stop going to that German site ::Sprechen Sie oben:: since I posted without understanding German or code...Congradulations, Armin. I missed you guys.

Nice work!

The only issue I have is font size. I feel like such a client, but the text seems much harder to read now.
(viewed on a Mac using most major browsers)

High five, it looks great. The chartreuse is lookin hot.

I'm just a lurker, but I wanted say how much I appreciate your site!

I'd like to say love the site. But at home I use Firefox, and at work I have to use IE, because that's what's loaded and provided, using IE the middle (main) column of content isn't in the correct place. It's below the right hand column, at the bottom of the page. Is anyone else having this problem? You have to scroll to the bottom to read it.

Armin, you have my utmost sympathy and Five High Fives!!

Not being a programmer myself, but having bumblingly built all of my own sites, I can completely understand what a pain this must have been. If you're anything like me, it involves brave trecking into the wilds with a sketchy map, a lot of getting lost, getting frustrated, sitting down to cry, getting up, persevering, finding your way, setting markers, and in the end coming out where you had hoped you would with a bunch of snake bites and a feeling of great triumph.

Oh, and hey, next time it's 1am and you want a high five, pls remember it's only 10pm for me, and I'm up.

Good for you! It looks great. The text does look different, but perfectly readable to me.

I am familiar with flydianslip's IE problem ... I had the same thing happen when i built my own site, but I hate to say, my answer to the problem was "fuck fucking IE." Ummmm.... perhaps Armin will be more accommodating.

FYI, on IE 6, the second column (where the main content is)is pushed down all the way past the end of the left and right columns. Not that I use IE often.

Armin
frustrating days without Speak Up.
i am sorry i could not offer any help from here (riyadh, saudi arabia).
goodluck and great times ahead.

The main body text is slightly bigger than before, slightly, but it's darker. The print designer in me still can't bear the big type. But it's not a fixed pixel size anymore, it's em size so it's relative to something... not sure what.

The IE on PC issue kind of bugs me... A few people have written on the side reporting the same bug. As Marian points out, I'll try to see what I can do to acommodate the "problem". (Because, seriously, there are way better browsers than IE, doesn't Firefox come for PC?).

And Marian, thanks for the sympathy... it really felt like that. Small triumphs followed by hours of confused agony resolved with the simplest of tweaks resulting in constant head-bangs against the wall and hair-pulling.

Thanks to everyone for their kind words and patience while we work out the kinks.

Congrats. I am sure you ahve many readers like me who don't comment much but miss Speak Up! when it is not available.

But it's not a fixed pixel size anymore, it's em size so it's relative to something... not sure what.

I think if you set a specific font size in your body style it would be relative to that, otherwise it would be relative to the base font size the browser is set to. (Of course, why speculate when we could investigate, but someone will know exactly.)

Anyway, this is good because I find the default type on Speak Up! timidly small... which is ironic given the name of the site.

Has the khaki-brown color changed, or is it just me?

It looks a bit greener than before

Great work Armin...as some have already said, i don't post often, but this is a site i love to visit, and was sorely missing the dose of graphic designy goodness i get from SpeakUp every now and again. by the way...time to update your colophon!

*high fives*

I would say yes, Firefox probably does now get preinstalled on PCs. I reluctantly, use a PC and IE at work, and I can't download Firefox due to the fact I work for a defense contractor that limits our downloading of certain programs online. Everything about the site, besides deserves a high five...yes.

It's fine that SU plays nicely with seo now, but it's going to take more then tech. for people to come back everyday to read about what designers are commenting about. I think it's time for the authours to stop resting on reps and get back into the writing game if their serious. Being first can only hold for so long.

I was trying to post this from IE:

I use IE and get am facing the same issue that flydianslip is. Virtues (or lack thereof) aside, isn't IE still the most commonly used browser out there?

But discovered, to my disappointment that not only was that the issue, but I also can't post from IE. So I dropped off an email to Armin and thought I'd test Firefox, which is working fine. Amen to 'lack thereof'.

Tom... Yes, the khaki went away and was replaced by a bright green. We are still not convinced if this is the best solution, but I wanted to look at it for a few days and see if it felt better. I might make it a little less bright.

Andy... Sorry for the troubles on IE and PC. I'll see what I can do about it. And I don't think I got your e-mail; I've been having some issues with my e-mail, so don't take the no-reply as a sign of lack of customer service.

Michael... We hear you. Loud and clear.

*high five*

I'll put in my two cents and say that I don't care for the brighter color. I find it distracting while I'm trying to read. Other than that, congrats. Thanks for all your hard work, it's appreciated!

Is anyone else on PC (or otherwise) experiencing problems when commenting? If you are, please explain your symptoms so I can troubleshoot.

Thanks.

Hello, Armin, and congratulations on the upgrade. I've been away from SpeakUp for a while now, as the work flow at the studio completely drowned us. It was a shock to see the new version, and it really appears to be smoother, as you pointed out.
I haven't had the time to take a more careful look at the site, nor to read the comments on this post (we're still suffocated!), but the type on my screen looks very very bad now. It used to be one of the most beautiful and smooth, and now it looks like plain bitmap, and it's very difficult to read. Maybe it's due to the fact that I'm in a different computer now. I hope not, though, as I liked the way the type looked before much better.
Did I do something wrong (firefox on G4 to firefox on G5)?

ps — old fashioned flat screen tube monitor to apple's built in LCD...

I have made changes to the home page... Can someone using IE on a PC confirm (or deny) if the site now looks in order? ONLY the home page, the individual archives have not been updated yet. Please hard refresh or empty cache to preview.

Thanks!

Damn! I'm so stupid!
It's this damn firefox... I just had to push Command +...

Please, forgive my ignorance!

Armin
...yes it looks better. This comment I had to go through Firefox to comment, but I did check it using IE. IE isn't working for comments still. The page lining up isn't perfect in IE as of yet, your "pattern" graphic isn't lining up with the "Division of..." and "Authors". But great job otherwise. Also you changed the colors!!!!! Less harsh and green/brown. Thanks a bunch keep up the good work.

I'll echo flydianslip's comment. I'm on a PC running IE and while the middle content column is now in the middle, the two side columns seem dropped lower than they should be so the columns (and therfore the double black band) aren't aligned.

I too am posting from Firefox because IE isn't working for posting.

PS: Armin, I've sent you mail with a screen shot of what I'm getting in IE for your reference.

i don't know if this comment is too late but i have found browsercam (www.browsercam.com) invaluable for testing layouts cross-browser and cross-platform. since i am exclusively mac in my office, we use it fine tune ie-pc css.

perhaps this will help?

What about the Safari Debug Menu.
The example shown is for Java but the menu gives an option to select a "User Agent" at the bottom. I'm not much of a web dude though

Armin,

Compliments on the facelift.

And I feel your pain. As Dave Shea wrote the other day, "At the end of a long day of coding, loading that beautiful new site in Internet Explorer has always been a soul-crushing experience."

Marian, how I wish that we could "fuck fucking IE" (you don't know how many times I've muttered those very words, along with "fuck fucking AOL")—but as long as IE retains the market share, we can't really. (Though they have finally dropped below 90%. But we need to keep pushing FF.)

Any users out there running the IE7 beta who could give Armin some feedback (or screenshots)? Brace yourself for some quirks.

Kudos on your palette decisions; sharper and reads much better imho.

Cheers,
Caren

A comment about the syndication feed- I didn't know that you'd updated the site until I saw a post to a new entry over on Design Observer. I usually read SpeakUp via RSS, but the advice to update my feedreader to point to the new feed was posted in the new feed, and I never received it! I don't know if any other casual readers were affected by this ... would it be worth your time to reestablish the old feed and post an alert?

Alright... Looks like the IE users on a PC can now comment... The rest of youse will have to do without our former pretty "preview" and "submit" buttons. Looks like there is conflict using image buttons with MT with IE on a PC. There is a workaround, but it was for an old version of MT which I'm afraid might create problems later on. So regular buttons for everyone.

"Remember my info" for IE does not seem to be working for me. So a) if it is or isn't for you, let me know and b) if it's only a problem on IE PC, then tough, this is all the extra tech support you are getting out of me. (Time to switch to a Mac).

Kitty, sorry about the problem with RSS. Not sure how that happened since I thought I was updating the old RSS (any chance you might know what feed you were subscribed to?)... Oh well, hopefully people will feel compelled to come back and see if we are still alive.

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