We've Gone Plaid!
The number one requested feature on our Suggestion Board is a site redesign. We readily admit that our engineering roots show through, emphasis on new features and performance leave us short in the rounded corners and cute animation department.
Today we're pleased to announce that we're launching a new design based on extensive research and field testing on live bunnies. We've settled on a look that is both pleasing to the eye yet does not sacrifice functionality. It also goes great with a pair of khaki dress pants or thick corduroys if that's how you roll.
A couple of us are active members in the Great Color Wars of 2008 and I'd love to say that was the inspiration but Todd actually hatched this plan several days before the Great Call Up. When word of a Plaid Team broke out on Twitter, we took it as a sign.
And now a challenge to you, my dear reader. See if you can find the Easter Egg on the site that leads to the deeper meaning and significance of our gesture. First person to leave a comment on this post with the correct answer wins a small token of our appreciation.
UPDATE: In case you missed it, here's what our pages looked like today. Clicking on the MyBlogLog logo took you to the Prepare Ship for Lightspeed clip from the movie, Spaceballs.
No offence but the new theme looks horrid! It looks like a graphical glitch of some sort!
Posted by: Brad | April 01, 2008 at 12:35 AM
And i actually like this new look way better than the old one. :P
Posted by: Avatar X | April 01, 2008 at 12:43 AM
Mel Brooks is always great. Thanks for the video. ;)
Posted by: Bibi | April 01, 2008 at 01:48 AM
The Spaceballs video?
Posted by: Dominik | April 01, 2008 at 03:07 AM
Or more specific: The light that Spaceball 1 emits while going to ludicrous speed. :)
Posted by: Dominik (fellow Plaidteam member) | April 01, 2008 at 03:11 AM
"Ludicrous Speed, go!!!"
"They've gone to plaid..."
Great Spaceballs moment...
Posted by: NYCWD | April 01, 2008 at 04:47 AM
Geeks should know:
If it aint broken don't fix it. Didn't like it on rev.1, this is probably even worse.
My tidy plug-in reports 147 errors and 7 warnings..
Beside that, on this side of the ocean (Italy) the whole site is terribly slow.
Posted by: Guido | April 01, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Looks like something someone knocked out in their bedroom. Aweful.
Posted by: Fox Tucker | April 01, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Congratulations to Bibi (who was the first to find the Easter Egg) and Dominik (who pointed out the connection).
1 year PRO subscriptions to the two of you!
Posted by: Ian Kennedy | April 01, 2008 at 10:27 PM
I must agree with the comments left behind. The new layout is less than desire-able.
My readers are complaining that they left Email about this, but MBL is not Responding.
Why is that ?
Unless Yahoo wants to dump money in the waste basket for the purchase of MBL, you might want to listen to what people are telling you.
Or atleast give us the OPTION to OPT OUT of this horrible layout.
OS9USER - I suggest you take a poll on yourself. Watch the feedback.
Posted by: OS9USER | April 08, 2008 at 06:47 PM
dead men don't wear plaid
;) thanks for the screen shot!
-beachee
Posted by: beach | April 11, 2008 at 05:11 PM