ColoradoStartups.com is now about 7 months old, and has a few hundred regular readers. I started the blog back in March out of a passion for both Colorado and early stage technology startups. So far I’ve written my thoughts about 30 Colorado-based startups, and have done several podcasts.
Last night, I gave the site a facelift. I want to thank Kevin Menzie at Slice of Lime for the design and Brad Feld for the impetus. You may notice ColoradoStartups now looks a bit like Feld Thoughts. I’ll write more on this coincidence soon.
I’d love your feedback on the new look, but even more importantly I’m going to ask you to get involved.
Many of you hear about interesting new technology startups in Colorado all the time. I want to cover them and get them some exposure, connections, and contacts – all things that have tremendous value to early stage companies. Please tell them about the blog, and ask them to contact me. Better yet, contact me yourself. Go ahead, add me to your address book now.
Please also send me your thoughts about what you’d most like to see covered. Want more podcasts? Want more advice? Let me know what’s helping the most and what bores you.
Thanks for your continued interest.
Overall, looks very nice. A could of things I noticed:
1. I think having the text color the same as the page background (both dark) is a bad idea. When you go to a “Google cache” version of the page, images are not loaded so you see dark text on a dark background.
2. No sure what the thing to the left of the title is supposed to be, but it looks like a mistake to me (rather than intentional).
3. The comment form fields are a bit out of whack (e-mailing you a screenshot).
4. The WP Grins icons aren’t showing properly. My fault? 🙂
5. The “Colorado Startups” bubble in the header looks cramped to me – perhaps move it so that it comes from the right side of the “home” text instead of the left.
6. I recommend using an RSS feed icon in your big RSS feed graphic. Grab one from http://feedicons.com/
7. Font size is very small on my modern monitor. On my old monitor with bigger pixels, it is ok.
Ok, I guess that was a lot of feedback. Again, overall I like the changes. It’s all little detail stuff.
Thanks for the comment Alex. It’s really nice having a second pair of eyes, especially from someone with your experience. I really appreciate the feedback.
I’ve lightened up the background some. The arrow on the left of the article title is by design – i think the idea is that when you’re looking at a page with many posts, it’s a clear way to visualize where the next one is.
I fixed up the comment form (oops, that was a big one) and the smileys (just pointing to wrong dir, guess it used to be wp-images and now it’s wp-includes/images). Not your fault. 😉
Most of the other stuff is Slice of Lime design stuff that I’m not really doing myself. I’ll forward the feedback.
Thanks for the comments, and thanks for your work on WordPress. It’s a great tool!
Hi Dave. Love the new look and feel. It may be cool to list links in the sidebar of the companies that you have covered so that one may easily peak in on them rather than hunt through old posts. BTW saw your earFEEDER pitch at Boulder Tech Meetup, very cool, I am not much of a music guy but will plan to install on my girlfriends machine who is an iTues junky and I’m guessing she will love it.
Great idea Adam. I was thinking about a companies page as well as a custom form for submitting leads on new companies.
Try out earfeeder and let me know what your girlfriend thinks. So far, so good.
Thank for the feedback.