the proof of the pudding (sorry)

[devi]

Thank you all very much for your comments on my post about naming my freelance proofreading/editing website. It really helped clarify things for me. I think I'd got hung up on finding a memorable name and was stuck on "memorable = dramatic" (as marnameow said, "Fire! Melt! Extreme!", which made me laugh). Drama was the wrong thing to convey. If I was sending my precious novel off to an editor, I wouldn't want to feel that it was going to be hacked about by a frustrated-artist drama-queen. A very important part of proofing and editing is being sensitive to the writer's style and not imposing your own on it. venta made another piece fall into place for me with the words "brisk and businesslike".

So I took a completely different tack. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Friendly Pedant.

I've included the formatting/DTP kind of design in this site. The rest of my design - the stuff that warrants an artier approach - is going on a separate one. There'll be a copywriting page too when I've managed to dig out enough reviews of my writing.

Also: seriously, how much does Google Analytics rock? I can't stop refreshing it.

Edit: particularly interested in comments from people viewing it in Internet Explorer. I've used a bunch of online IE emulators on it, but I'm not very confident in what they've told me.

Comments

Great site name

[tokyo-mb.livejournal.com]

Just three design comments having viewed in Chrome, FF, Safari.

1) The green boxes to change the format of the comment form are counter-intuitive (for me) in the context of the tabbed interface. Could you not either have a second (nested) set of tabs or a vertical set of tabs to change the comment form?

2) The check boxes under the text on the comment form might be better next to the text to which they relate - like a bullet point - rather than underneath.

2) (pedantic) The grain on your background image doesn't align beneath the footer. Only relevant for those with big screens, but it does look visually odd given the care that has gone into the rest of the design.

I'll either show up as Tokyo or Shibuya on Google Analytics.

Re: Great site name

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Excellent comments, thank you. I've got a pretty humungous screen and it hadn't occurred to me that for some people there would be lots of space beneath the footer. I will think about this.