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Welcome to Temptalia v. 2011!

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Welcome to Temptalia v. 2011!

Ahh, did you notice a lil’ change?  I mean… I hope so! 🙂  After weeks of arguing, designing, tears, midnight snacks, we’re so proud to bring you the newest version of Temptalia.  We have a few more features to implement over the next month or so, but for now, we hope you’ll enjoy the new layout and design.

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Karen (CFBeauty) Avatar
Karen (CFBeauty)

Your site looks amazing!! The theme is of my fav colors pink & purple too, good job Christine 🙂

btw I think it’s because I’m using a netbook or Google chrome right now, but the width of this page is slightly larger so there’s a horizontal scroller on the bottom of my screen.. nothing concerning but letting you know in case!

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ShockingBlue

I have a question: I posted a makeup question three times to a post that never was published. It was a while ago too…any reason why some questions/comments aren’t published besides for the obvious of them being offensive (which mine was not in any way)?

Rosie Avatar
Rosie

I have to get to bed but I love how it looks so wan to put in my two cents. Putting the foundation matrix up top is awesome! I love how easy it is to find the MAC database and Dupe list now too. Great work Christine and Shaun! I love it!

Lulee Avatar
Lulee

Very nice!!! I love how tags and posted in are next to each other now as opposed to one at the top of the post and one at the bottom. Makes things easier methinks! Great work Christine and Shaun!

Heather Avatar
Heather

I believe the older layout must have auto-adjusted the main width based on a viewers resolution. This one doesn’t, so smaller screens have a scroll bar at the bottom. Once you move the scroll bar it fits, though. I’m just guessing, but maybe the old layout used percentages and this one doesn’t? Not sure.

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Quinctia

Sounds like the other page maybe wasn’t a fixed width? I did make my browser window smaller, and it does seem like a scrollbar pops up before the layout itself is anywhere near the size of the window, so I’m wondering if there’s a width hardcoded in that’s wider than the visible layout, anyway.

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Vanessa

I have the same problem as Heather. I don’t mind the old wide layout, as long as the main content automatically adjusts to center itself on the browser screen. Though maybe it just takes some time for me to get used to.

Leah Avatar
Leah

I’m having this same issue, too. I thought the layout was actually broken because everything looked so bad until I realized, hey, I need to scroll over a bit so I can see everything.

Vale Avatar
Vale

Don’t misunderstand me… I love the fact you are constantly improving your site (it means you have a lot of consideration for us, readers), but the fact is that where I live, the internet connection sucks!, and loading all those wonderful banner, changing pictures, flash things, etc, means TONS and TONS of minute of waiting :_(

Dawn Avatar
Dawn

I’m afraid I don’t like the new version. The comments bit is too blocky and heavy and I find myself wanting to find a button to stop the moving bit at the top. It looks way too busy. The previous version was much cleaner and easier on the eye

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Marjolijn

I hate to say it because you must’ve put so much time into it, but I liked the previous layout & design better. But I think it’s just because I like pink better than purple 😛

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Vivian

It’s beautiful!

It’s so nice that your boyfriend is the one who does all this with you 🙂

And I’m going to use this comment to thank you for the awesome swatches. Thanks to them, I was able to ask my husband to get me lipsticks and blushes while on a business travel and they were all exactly like I thought they would be, even with my skin color being completely different (cool toned, green eyes, blond hair)!

🙂

Jaz Avatar
Jaz

LOVE the changing thingy at the top of the page that shows you product reviews etc! (sorry, I don’t know how to describe) Very very cool, will that be updated often?

Sam Avatar
Sam

I think it looks really good! Only complaint I have (which isn’t even about the layout haha) is the ads at the top that extend down… they’re SUPER irritating when I’m trying to read some of your content and the entire page gets pushed down because of the stupid ad.

Sam Avatar
Sam

Oh yeah for sure, but I didn’t mean ads in general, just the ones that start out as a small bar and then extend down into big squares that push the pages down… but either way, your site is WAY worth that teeny tiny annoyance. I looove the new look!

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Lady Di.

I absolutely love the new look! Very girly! It looks great on my home PC, but I can’t get the whole thing on my work computer for some reason. Its too large? I dont know but I have to scroll to the side to see the whole thing. Maybe its because Im not supposed to be on Temptalia when I should be working!lol

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Kelsey

haha the layout change shocked me for a second! but i really like it, it kept the best parts of the old layout and just updated it. bravo christine and shaun! (and mellan, because he must have had something to do with this, stress relief perhaps?)

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Lilastar

Love the new design! It is so pretty 🙂 Using IE8 and it works OK, Just noticed some of the user images in the comments section are not being loaded. I really like this new design though, it is modern and very femenine at the same time. Great job!

Dini Avatar
Dini

This looks incredible! It really highlights all the cool temptalia features like the dupe list and all the new posts. Love love love it! What a great Tuesday morning surprise.

Mina Avatar
Mina

Wonderful job! It looks very professional and neat. If you’re looking for any suggestions: I love the scrolling-featured-posts that has been added to the layout, at the top, but I think its size can be overwhelming. I liked that when I would load the site, the latest entry was clearly visible and at the center; now, because of the height of the scrolling posts, I am only greeted with the title of the latest post. That’s really the only suggestion I have because, otherwise, it looks great and very Temptalia! 🙂

Connie Avatar
Connie

The new site looks great and I definitely notice an improvement in load times. =)
I use safari most of the time and used to have issues with the brand list loading and now it doesn’t appear to load at all? Was that removed?

Christine Avatar
Christine
Light Medium, Neutral, slight yellow undertones. Normal-to-Dry skin. View Christine Full Profile

It should load – it loads in a drop down menu. If you click “Brands,” then there should be a horizontal space that loads under the preview images (but above the first post), which says “Via Brands,” and on the right of that, a drop down menu.

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LuvJaime

Hi Christine.. I usually utilize the “BRANDS” tab to look for a particular product.. I just noticed that instead of a brand listing, it seems to just head back to the home page?

Either way.. congrats and amazing job on the new site 🙂

Leticia Avatar
Leticia

I love Temptalia’s new look! It looks very hip in purple and is as girly, organized, easy to search through and fun as always. Great work!!

Marie Avatar
Marie

Please understand that what I’m saying below is an effort to bring constructive criticism… 🙂

I like the new layout, and the color scheme, but I think maybe lines are too “hard”. I see perpendicular lines everywhere. I think maybe I would like it if boxes had rounder edges or something.

Also, what is the difference between “tags” and “Posted in”?

Thank for the hard work, and congrats on the new layout. 🙂
The animated banner is kickass!

Kelly Avatar
Kelly

I love the way the new site looks 🙂 I am also always thankful that you have a mobile page because I visit on my phone a lot. Keep up the good work!

NC30 Avatar
NC30

Nice, will take some getting used to though. Now, let’s see how many other beauty bloggers copy the design, cos you know they’re analyzing and taking notes, lol 😉

Lilac Avatar
Lilac

Hello 🙂
I like the new header and I`m sure that the new layout had a long thinking process and developement time before it was launched, but I do think that some parts of the page now look very crowded. That could be because of many things that were black and white before are now also pink/lilac-ish (I do like the colours, so it´s not that).

For example that element of “tags, disclosure, related posts, faq” has all a bit different “layout”, so this looks a tad messy to me. Maybe a move towards a more similar appearance of all these elements might make it look “more clean” to the eye. Then the “frames” of the boxes of, fore example “final thoughts” appear like the have a tad of a shadow around them, which also makes them look more squeezed.

I`m hoping this is constructive feedback, I don’t mean to bash and I really like your page, but currently it does look a tad overloaded, though.

NinaR Avatar
NinaR

Dear Christine,
The problem is that you cannot see the list of brands any more, and it was so much useful! I’m using Google Chrome, but I don’t really think that it’s a browser-related problem.

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NinaR

Christine,
Thank you, at first I didn’t understand this new mechanism (got so much used to the old one where you could see the whole list at once).

Marie Avatar
Marie

It’s been a while since I visited, so I was totally surprised by the new look. ABSOLUTELY love it! Major kudos to you guys, you really did an excellent job.

Annabelle Avatar
Annabelle

looks really pretty!

the only thing is the banner at the top with the strip animation (not sure what to call it) doesn’t show up properly. I’m using Google Chrome and after all the strips have loaded, there are gaps between the strips.

Caroline Avatar
Caroline

Hi Christine, do you have some screenshots of the old design? I really liked it and right now i’m studying CSS so I would like to see a sample of it, especially the header & footer!

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