DISQUS

Mathias · 1 year ago

Since i didn't know any of the other blogs before I voted for tofugu. Good luck! ;-)

I like the new design very much! Maybe you could experiment with the header background color (brownish?), but the blue as a contrast color is actually good.

I think the left part of the header with that speech bubble and "tofugu.com" above it could be improved...in some way, i don't know, since I'm not a webdesigner.

Overall it's already good as it is! Great work.

So, while waiting for your next post I'm going to browse through those other Japan blogs.

Koichi · 1 year ago

Thanks for the vote and the suggestions, Mathias!

The header area is definitely a trouble area, I was playing around with that for a long time. It definitely needs some work still

Jon · 1 year ago

I don't know. That Englishman who lives in Osaka is pretty funny.

Claytonian · 1 year ago

thanks for the link, suckas!

Just kidding. You're in my feed so you know I like you almost as much as me.

Mathias · 1 year ago

(Sorry for the reverse double post ^^)
In the post below substitute "something" with "someone".

Mathias · 1 year ago

Wow, did you hire something to vote for you or something like that? ^^ j/k
Was a big suprise to see 141 votes for tofugu (congratulations), since when i voted yesterday you had only 21.

By the way, I like how you changed the design now. I think the lighter blue in the header section is more convenient. Also the "Tofugu.com" writing fits better as it is now, in my opinion. However, personally I liked the transition from header to content in the background better the way it was before, even though then it wasn't even a transition, but a break with a black line. ^^ Matter of taste of course.

koichi · 1 year ago

Just in case any one is wondering (not so much in reply to your comment, mathias), I never asked anyone to vote for us and always asked people to look at the other blogs before voting on whichever one they wanted. I really do hope that people discover other blogs and make the Japanese blog community stronger, since it really helps all of us.

I might be a little bit bold to say this, but what I think it comes down to, though, is that Tofugu has the best community of all the blogs. I would argue it's even better than a lot of the bigger sites in other categories. We always have a lot of people commenting and sharing their views, and we (the writers) are always emailing back and forth with readers. I think that's what is winning it for us right now :)

fred · 1 year ago

Wow congrats on all the votes. It did just change a lot overnight. You guys have the most votes overall. Nice! As for the blog design, did you change the top again? I'm getting confused, haha. Cause I wasn't paying too much attention as it changed. I think I like it before, the font style or something. Maybe I'm just making up things. Ha. I like how it transitions from light blue to dark blue. I need to learn how to do all this stuff. haha.

Roaf · 1 year ago

Hey, thanks for the link, very sporting! I dig your site. I'll stick you on my blogroll.

Mathias · 1 year ago

I must also thank you for the links now, i didn't know any of the other sites, including WhatJapanThinks. As I browsed through them I found some very interesting stuff, which otherwise I wouldn't.

Moka · 1 year ago

It's maybe a bit late for the suggestions concerning the design but I'm going to post mine anyway. The cartoon characters are great for the header but how about also putting them on the sides. Like one on the left, another on the right, and lower, one on the left and at the same level another on the right.