As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve tweaked Daily Kos’s design a bit.
- We’ve created color distinctions between staff (orange) and community (blue) content. It’s a subtle change, showing up both on rollovers (when you hover over a link), and on section headers.
- We’ve better identified writers as being either staff or community.
- We’ve upgraded the share buttons. It’s important that we keep spreading the word outside of these orange (and blue!) walls. One of the ways to keep sharing higher is to prevent them from becoming background noise in a design, so you freshen up their look.
These are subtle changes, but the color stuff is an iterative step toward a new front page design, one that more clearly elevates community content. And one way we’re going to do that is by using color to draw people’s attention to the site’s big sections—its staff news, its community content, and its activism actions (which will get their own non-orange, non-blue color too).
When will that happen? Not for a while. It’s a complex project.
But next big change on tap is the launch of a complete rewrite of the comments to make them load faster for everyone, which is of particular importance to people on mobile devices. That one is in final bug-squashing mode, so hopefully we can unveil in a matter of weeks.