OMG! we have a new site!

By Benjamin Humphrey, Published September 1, 2010

I hope you like aubergine

Update: Benjamin has now blogged about the site design. Check it out.

The site is now on wordpress instead of blogger and on a dedicated new server, which means it’s much faster, and we have a lot more flexibility when it comes to formatting of posts and customizing the layout and style to truly give it that OMG! feel.

There’s an entirely new design that brings in elements of the new Ubuntu branding, and also sets the standard for the new websites that Ohso will be opening up over the next few months.

The new design features a much nicer category, tag and search system to make it easy to find older posts, a custom set of icons, new sidebar widgets, a new colour pallete, lovely static pages and a beautiful footer that all combine to make this site something unique.

The design was done by me and later on I’ll be going into detail examining some of the new aspects of the design, decisions we had to make and unique features that makes this website something we’re really pleased with.

In case you didn’t notice, the new website is over 2x faster than the old one! Niall Molloy, our ace web developer and optimization ninja has worked long and hard making sure that this website is the fastest around. Niall has managed to balance beauty and speed, producing something that is faster than most other tech sites on the web!

Niall also uses the new CSS3 standard to give lovely fading rollovers and other assorted details, so if you’re using Firefox 4 or Google Chrome you can enjoy these.

Niall will be talking about the code behind the site in a later post, including the challenge of transferring nearly 2000 posts with links and comments intact from one provider to another.

We hope you enjoy the new site, because we sure do!

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  • Anonymous

    Very ace work indeed. I like it! Yay for early glipses! ;)

  • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

    Nooooooo! xD

  • http://twitter.com/timnathandyer Nathan Dyer

    This is beyond fantastic. Cheers all around!

  • http://twitter.com/LoverBoyV Cullen Maglothin

    I can scroll whilst the page loads,
    I am a happy camper. :)

  • http://uberdood.com Alf

    It’s OMG! AWESOME. Great job!

  • http://www.martinsmucker.com Michael Martin-Smucker

    omg, it’s beautiful! nice work!

  • http://twitter.com/alexandrpunk Alexandr

    I just say OMG Ubuntu!! when i saw the new design xD

  • http://wakoopa.com/yo2boy yo2boy

    I love you humphreybc.

    (no homo)

  • http://CoryClaxon.com/ CoryClaxon

    It’s awesome!! Good Work ;)

  • Febaac

    OMG!! (OMD) Gran trabajo, muy bueno el nuevo diseño de la web ;)

  • Muhammad Negm

    OMG! That’s too Fancy for me
    but please activate Facebook commenting because it’s not working

  • Anonymous

    much more professional

  • http://twitter.com/couillard45682 Jérémi Couillard

    Completly awesome! Well done ;)

  • http://www.xnlab.net Xeriab Nabil

    OMG! UBUNTU! r0x

  • http://thestrayworld.com/ Rewarp

    The new site looks excellent! I am looking forward to the details on how you designed it.

  • http://twitter.com/fverdeja93 Francisco Verdeja

    realy a professional look, when i can download the elementary firefox???? sorry for my bad english

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/suprman2020 Solomon

    Excellent job. What is up with the dreamhosters in the url though?

    Edit: This site is fast.

    • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

      This was likely not changed when they moved to the new site live. The would have used omgubuntu.dreamhosters.com to test the site before releasing it to everyone. After noticing this (not via you comment) I have found several things linking to dreamhost.

      1. OMG! Ubuntu! logo in loft left of purple header
      2. Comments feed on right of every page
      3. “OMG! Ubuntu! Everything Ubuntu. Daily.” text in footer
      4. “OMG! Ubuntu! is a member of the Ohso Ltd Network.”
      5. Trackback URL via Disqus
      6. Various item such as javascript and CSS

      Overall I love the site. I looks amazing and loads much faster. I love the new “Share This Story” bar across the much nicer than the UGLY purple one. I won’t use it, but don’t find it as intrusive due to width and transparency. The only thing I would change is adding a fade between the images on the top of the screen.

    • Anonymous

      It’s still rolling it’s way over on the DNS. We’ll get the rest of the little stuff sorted out pretty quick.

  • detechy

    OMG! with elementary theme? ;D

  • Anonymous

    I loved it :) Great site, great design :)

  • Mohan

    Nice look!

  • Anonymous

    Fantastic ! It’s looking very professional and good looking in the eyes

  • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

    What is not to like and being wordpress I am now liberated from the terrible Blogger interface where nothing ever ended up looking like the preview.

  • https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen

    What is not to like and being wordpress I am now liberated from the terrible Blogger interface where nothing ever ended up looking like the preview.

  • nate8nate

    Pretty nice, though I am finding the new site very slow. Also the header seems a bit too big, and the featured article slider should perhaps only appear on the homepage. Other than those concerns, the site is a huge improvement.

  • http://twitter.com/afroman10496 Joe Lawrence

    OMG!!! Flash!

  • http://twitter.com/GlennDCitrix Glenn Dobson

    Loving the new look, it’s inspiring for my own blog.

  • Simon

    OMG!
    Give me my articles back to my rss-reader, pl0x!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OP7BG4HVH2RDTFAP2VAYJWMY4M justin

    Ok…Now we can forget what humphreybc did two wks back!!!

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/7GXJ4CL5A6A5YPPUO47UQXGP5Y Johan

      Already forgotten by me. Everyone makes mistakes and let their temper get the best out of them sometimes. It’s all right, as long as you apologize to the people concerned and move on.

  • Jayayess1190

    OMG! Sexy.

  • Anonymous

    This is rather good.

  • http://twitter.com/DrPFenderson Philippe K Fenderson

    Gorgeous!
    I’m really digging the new look. Definitely an inspiration.

  • Anonymous

    wow! this looks great, but that might be cos i’m awake at 2am in d morning. will have to gave a look again when i wake up. :D

  • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

    Give us a chance to move readjust settings etc – we’ve only switched DNS in the last hour which is confusing both Disqus and Feedburner.

  • Anonymous

    Love the new site :).
    Only one thing I don’t like the rotating banner is distracting while reading and i take to much space at the top before the real content.

    A part from that I can’t wait to read how you made it :)

    • Anonymous

      maybe just keep the rotating banner on the front page

      it doesnt need to be on every post (?)

  • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

    You don’t have bad English.

  • Aldo Mann

    Now RSS Feed only shows the first paragraph of each article. I hope you can fix that.

  • http://test BeRA

    Anyone disliking this new design should be sued !!! :D

  • http://twitter.com/billyalt William Alten-Dunkle

    I love the new site! Congrats you guys.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ICMPZOXLM4DS5KBTDTDRKK34ZI Martin

    Nice job.

  • Peter Guirguis

    OOHH EMM GEEEE
    This site looks AWESOME

  • http://feathertail.dreamwidth.org/ Tachyon Feathertail

    Ah, okay. >.>

  • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

    I hope you fix this soon. It should be *very* high on your priority list -
    many people depend on this.

  • http://feathertail.dreamwidth.org/ Tachyon Feathertail

    Yes, it’s very fast! Now please bring back the full-content RSS feed. >.<

  • Xorlathor

    I likez dis.

  • ninjapirate89

    Great job guys, the site looks amazing.

  • http://twitter.com/stee1rat SteelRat

    Looks great, but huge. I have to scroll the page to see the article on my netbook’s screen :)

  • Anonymous

    This looks FANTASTIC. Looks like it’ll scale up better for a larger community.

    If you’re ever in need of more writers, hit me up. ;)

  • Anonymous

    oh good, the top bar is unobtrusive now (only problem I had with the last site). YAY!!!

  • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

    I’m with you on that. Sure it’s fast, but I rarely visit the site. I only
    visit the site and that it to post *one *comment. After that I just add
    comments via email (like I’m doing now). Benjamin said “It’ll take us a few
    hours to tune the combobulator and configure the stuff expander.” so this is
    not a permanent or intentional thing.

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    Nice new site, nice and fast :)

  • Anonymous

    Go to http://engadget.com or http://joystiq.com or http://lifehacker.com and tell me you don’t have to scroll to read posts there also.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, just calm down, there are lots of things we need to do but we can’t do it until the DNS resolves everywhere.

  • Seventh Reign

    Very nice. I really dig the layout. Gives a very classy and professional feel.

  • Anonymous

    So pretty my eyes burn :’D
    Literally! A lil’ bit on the bright side, but don’t change it, it’s beautiful this way!
    Congratulations!

  • http://twitter.com/adibizuddin Adib

    freaking awesome guys. good job!!! :) I like the new OMG ubuntu

  • Chris Nichols

    Digging the new design. Very nice!

  • Vishy1618

    OMG, its one of the most prettiest sites I’ve ever seen!

  • http://twitter.com/giulioribas Giulio Ribas

    Really like. Looks more clean and easy to fuss around.

  • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

    That is fine. I’m not upset with anyone. There are things that happen
    when you do stuff like this. The site refresh affects the majority of
    users. The RSS fedd affects the minority of users. I want this to be
    the top priority, but won’t as it doesn’t affect most users. I didn’t
    mean to offend anyone and apologize if I did.

    On Wednesday, September 1, 2010, Disqus

  • http://encephalosponge.com/ Jonathan Blackhall

    Your RSS feed appears to be redirecting links to http://www.omgubuntu.dreamhosters.com . I’m assuming you guys wanted to keep the .co.uk

  • Anonymous

    It’s pretty important, we’ll fix it as soon as we can :)

  • http://claimid.com/el-bhm bhm

    Font is way to light. Too low contrast.

    Other than that. It’s real;y nice.

  • Anonymous

    Totally brilliantly fast. Proud to be here.

  • Anonymous

    Click on through to the article about it! ;)

  • DoR

    OMG! SLICK!

  • Anonymous

    So guys, what are your favorite bits of the new site? ^^

  • Hemerson

    Cool! o/

  • Anonymous

    Just switch “I” with “can” and you will be fine :) .

  • Anonymous

    OMG! Orgasmic !

  • Anonymous

    Site is fast like a Meerkat .

  • Anonymous

    It’s brought me to tears. T3T

  • eleusis

    Love it.

  • daas88

    OMG! So cool!

  • Anonymous

    looooove it :)

  • Matthew

    Yesterday I realized that you guys were using Blogger. I found it really strange that a blog about open source software was using a closed source platform. Anyways, welcome to WordPress. :]

  • Anonymous

    OMG! This is awesome!

    Congrats the new page is just incredible! It looks beautiful from top to bottom! It shows how much OMG! Ubuntu! has grown over time (such a small time)!

    Oh crap! I remember the old koala themed site, with nostalgia!

  • mranima

    Love it men, it loads a lot faster now.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t use ubuntu font?

    The banner shouldn’t be shown on individual post/page.

  • Anonymous

    Fantastic, simply fantastic! The site looks like no other site could!

  • Anonymous

    Fantastic, simply fantastic! The site looks like no other site could!

  • Anonymous

    It uses the new font if you have it installed.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t see any trace of Ubuntu font. It’s my system font. design.canonical.com works good with the font.

  • zacH

    Very sleek, very fast. I’m very impressed in particular that all comments were moved over, as well. Exciting times, to be sure!

  • Anonymous

    That’s because those are all WordPress items simply linking to the value stored in the database. Because they can’t make everyone’s DNS magically flush, they’re leaving that value for a few days. Then they should change that value to omgubuntu.co.uk.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t Droid Sans (linked from Google’s Font Directory) overriding the Ubuntu font?

  • Anonymous

    It’s fun watching that Facebook “Like” counter go up every time I visit a new page. :P

  • Anonymous

    Droid Sans is used for the main text body. If you have the Ubuntu font installed, it will be used for headers and in the sidebar and other places.

  • Anonymous

    The DNS hasn’t resolved for everyone yet, it’s taking quite a while. Once it has, we’ll update the wordpress setting so everything uses omgubuntu.co.uk.

    If we do it now, it will break a lot of stuff.

  • Anonymous

    Yes.

  • Anonymous

    The images use a CSS3 fade, so if you’re using a CSS3 browser, you’ll get the fade (along with a tonne of other nice stuff).

    Chrome
    Chromium
    Firefox 4 Beta
    Safari
    Midori (?)

    …all have CSS3 support.

    • Anonymous

      images look great and load fast

      what type of hosting are you using? shared, vps?

      how much bandwidth u guys currently using ?

      thanks in advance and congrats on the new site :D

  • Anonymous

    The blog is still a resource hog on Midori T-T (but I don’t think it’s your fault at all).

  • http://www.twitter.com/duduoo Eduardo

    Muito legal o site, parabéns

  • Anonymous

    Ditto.

  • http://twitter.com/nixternal Rich Johnson

    Diggin’ the new threads, looks really good. Guess I should start reading it more here than on Google Reader :)

  • Anonymous

    Your Wine banner links to the wrong page! It should go to /2010/09/omg-5-five-ways-to-make-wine-apps-feel-native-in-ubuntu/

  • Anonymous

    Ah, got it. Good choice of fonts!

  • Anonymous

    es Ay Dios Mio :D ¡¡ADM!!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/7GXJ4CL5A6A5YPPUO47UQXGP5Y Johan

    Wow, pretty!

  • Anonymous

    It’s that stupid webkit-gtk bug :( ruining all our lives and eating all our steak…

  • http://twitter.com/puneet_singh_ Puneet Singh

    Awesome new site … wooo hooo!!

  • http://twitter.com/puneet_singh_ Puneet Singh

    hey I found one problem, when you type ! (exclamation) it is not easily recognizable

  • Navneeth

    Could I ask the comment profile icons be made smaller? I find that it takes up too much space, and I can read up to only 4 one-line comments at a time. The site looks very well done, otherwise. My congratulations.

  • http://twitter.com/hyperzahranism Mohd Zahrani

    Awesome, outstanding, unique, Lovely what else can I say

    Incredible

  • http://twitter.com/hyperzahranism Mohd Zahrani

    I liked the banner, gives a brief expressive message about what you do have on this wonderful blog

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    It’ll be interesting to read about how he managed to move 2000 posts over without breaking links. I have the same issue with my own (somewhat abandoned) blog.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some (secret) re-coding to do force someone else to do for me.

  • http://twitter.com/iheartubuntu i [heart] ubuntu

    GORGEOUS! Congrats Dood!!!!

  • Koblin

    wow! i like this =)

  • Anonymous

    This site doesn’t look good on windows 7 using chrome. The font is jagged and blurry.

  • http://twitter.com/rxsa Jeldo Meppen

    Luv it. Real neat!

  • Anonymous

    Droid sans error I guess.

  • shArko!

    love the new design…colours, layout, elements. Awesome!

  • http://www.facebook.com/ultysagar SAM

    The new site is a breeze. i like it.

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    Like it a lot, but why the dreamhoster thing.

  • http://www.expatsinksa.com/ Bilal Akhtar

    OMG! Its fast!

  • ActionpackedPIVII

    Awesome! really awesome guys :D

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCSKYW5XAZBXWHZ2I5RPCNXYBU Isaac

    GREAT JOB! A few things need a bit of tweaking design-wise… somethings look a bit choppy, but I’m more than sure that will be eventually smoothed over. Keep up the great work!

  • http://twitter.com/gdetras Jeffrey Detras

    This is great! I thought I was on a different website the instant I saw it. I was accustomed to the old one but now I’m getting familiar with the new stuff! Great job :)

  • Abgorn

    I’m having big problems, there seems to be no CSS. I’m using Gecko 4.0b6pre but I tried it on the latest Chromium build and it’s the same there.

  • http://twitter.com/elvisd elvisd

    This new design is awesome!

  • cmyrland

    Wow, NICE!

  • Anonymous

    Are you on omgubuntu.co.uk or the dreamhosters subdomain? WordPress was just shifted back to omgubuntu.co.uk so if you’re viewing via dreamhosters URL and the DNS for omgubuntu.co.uk hasn’t switched for you yet you won’t see the CSS files.

  • richardsith

    nice,very nice. I like everything

  • http://www.trifunovic.me Nikola Trifunović

    Very cool :) I like the new design very much !
    Good job Benjamin ;)

  • http://orsobasso.blogspot.com/ Orsobasso

    Going better every single day.

    Go on guys you’re great ; )

  • Migger

    Very nice update, guys. Well done.

  • Sashin

    woah… it feels so much cleaner and more free than before.

  • Anonymous

    WOW this new site looks the mutts!

  • http://twitter.com/xobb xobb

    I loved your new site, but still prefer reading in a feed reader

  • http://kotbcorp.blogspot.com ahmedkotb

    congrats :)

  • http://twitter.com/piratelv Levi

    LOVE the new site. Will be looking forward to the explaining post.

  • http://www.design-by-izo.com Izo

    Really looking good guys. Solid work. =]

  • http://twitter.com/puneet_singh_ Puneet Singh

    OMG!! Fixed :)

    • Anonymous

      @puneet
      how did you fix it? i have the same problem in firefox

    • Anonymous

      @puneet
      how did you fix it? i have the same problem in firefox

  • arlindo correia

    masssssssssssa!!!!
    ficou muito massa

  • Anonymous

    love it.

    (unfortunately still have to go from liferea to firefox to read the comments though, cos the liferea chokes when disqus displays them)

  • John

    OMG!

  • http://www.amilcartavares.com/ amilcartavares

    Very good!!

  • Alaukik

    It isn’t intended to !!!!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/ushabtay Uri Shabtay

    wow!! beautiful! great work folks

  • Anonymous

    Niceeee, the reader is telling mee

  • Derek

    I like the colours and logos but some sections are far too big. The latest posts banner should be half the size, the sidebar on the right is also massive, as is the search box. The whole site looks a lot busier which is very distracting to read.

    Then again this display is on 1024×768

    • Derek

      For the record, now viewing on 1280 x 800 and it looks great!

  • Dipish

    Great work!
    I think it would be better if the announcements in the header would slide left/right instead of just crossfading. At least when you manually click the left/right buttons at sides.

  • Anonymous

    holy shit it’s gorgeous, great job!

  • http://twitter.com/shishimaru1000 Salvatore Cresce

    Elegant! Really nice,folks! :)

  • Claudio

    Awesome!

  • http://twitter.com/DarkRedman Manuel DEBAUX

    Wow, the new website is awesome, I love WordPress ! (I use it !)

  • http://twitter.com/om26er omer akram

    The new look is ace really.

  • Seahorse Pip

    Awesome! <3 it!

  • http://twitter.com/yuretsz yuretsz

    I can’t see no CSS.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KME6NDF3KTWK6NNPG5SF36PLBI Ambleston

    I actually prefer the old site…

    …Nah, just kidding, really fantastic. Good job guys ;D

  • http://twitter.com/akuma_shadow Reginald Pinkston

    I really like it. Grate Job!

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/dsnettleton dsnettleton

    It’s gorgeous, guys. Good work.

  • Anonymous

    Heh, that’s not good.

  • Connel

    OMG! the site now has a favicon!!!!! :P

  • AJ

    Fantastic job; top marks for effort =]

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/B7YZZ26ISQONDZNPHW4VH6WXGM Boteeka

    The site looks awesome!!! Good work

    Could you remove the floating “share this story” toolbar? It makes scrolling horribly slow in Firefox.

  • Rai_fuzz

    bam!!..and all it took was a nite and the web look so cool..keep it u guys!

  • Django

    BEST LINUX-SITE!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Looks great in firefox nightly builds.

    Sometimes it can get a bit muddles with no real content boxes, but something i’m sure I will get used to.

  • Anonymous

    Oh and one minor thing is when a blog title is on two lines then there is a dead zone in the middle where I can’t click to view the post.

    I think it needs to be a little bit easier to view the posts.

  • firevas

    Now, this is something “brilliant”.

  • Ogi

    Cool, thanks Niall!

  • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

    I not saying that it is not as important, I’m just saying it doesn’t affect
    most users. I’ll be patient!

  • Jarda

    I like it. OMG, I do!

    Greetings from Prague, Czech Rep.

  • Anonymous

    make the site “cutesy” again, bring back a stuffed animal mascot at the top of the page, and where did the “eye candy” link go?? that was really nice.

  • http://elianthony.wordpress.com/ Eli

    Really like the speed of this new site, not so sure about the design just yet.

  • http://elianthony.wordpress.com/ Eli

    Really like the speed of this new site, not so sure about the design just yet.

  • http://elianthony.wordpress.com/ Eli

    Really like the speed of this new site, not so sure about the design just yet.

  • Brandon

    OMG!

  • Sworiginal

    No! it looks more professional this way, how hard isit to search these days anyway? :P

    • Anonymous

      the whole reason I initially liked this blog over many others is because it wasn’t all sterile and “professional”, there’s too much of that on the web today.

      give me something with some character.

  • http://tadasnaujokaitis.tk Tadas

    Great site! ;)

  • Anonymous

    Wspaniała strona !!! Gratulacje! To jest moja ulubiona strona o tej tematyce.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZCKHVTP4QZOFR3PR2AB6FE7VJ4 Dexter

    It’s like I’m looking through God’s eyes right now.

  • Dante

    I would ask for the text to be made a bit darker; the damn thing is nigh impossible to read on my TFT monitor, and sunlight? Oh dear, that IS impossible…

  • Tim

    Oh My God! OMG!Ubuntu! is really greater then ever!!!

  • http://www.FreezingMoon.org/ Dread Knight

    I think it’s pawnage, great job guys!

  • http://www.mytwittercloud.com/ thefuriouscoder

    Totally amazing! Congrats dudes.

  • Anonymous

    Pretty frikkin cool.

  • x-guest

    love it

  • http://twitter.com/krstep B@N@N@M@N

    WordPress rulz. Great choice.

  • Anonymous

    wow the site looks amazing, this is the best redesign yet

  • Anonymous

    Awsome

  • Anonymous

    Am liking the new site, and Aubergine suits it.

  • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

    Man, I hate to do this considering all the hard work put forth, but if I am going to be a valuable member than I must be honest: I really liked the old site better. The new site seems a bit flashy to me. The old site had charm in it’s simple, yet effective “blogger” look. Can we have an option to switch themes (LOL), this one is more distracting…

  • http://gnome-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=OrphanShadow OrphanShadow

    Love the new site. Very Classy.

  • Kenneth Baloney

    Oh, you used WordPress instead of Drupal in the end. I think you’ll probably regret that decision.

  • http://twitter.com/sawyer667 Alen Benković

    it’s too white : /

  • http://mukizu.animeblogs.ru/ mukizu

    The sidebar is way too distracting, if you ask me

  • http://twitter.com/coc_21 Christopher Colyard

    New site CSS is good

  • Ash

    I like this design. Nice work guys.

  • http://twitter.com/fabdango Fabián

    It’s like the best blog layout ever.

  • http://twitter.com/c_Linx c Linx

    love at first sight :)

  • http://mastropino.deviantart.com/ MastroPino

    Great design! =)

  • http://twitter.com/vit0m Vito

    only one simple comment to this new look: OMG!

  • S

    Omgprettygood !

    Nice design, like we say, it is “sobre, élégant, et efficace”

    greetings from france,

    S.

  • http://twitter.com/williambuck williambuck

    Onwards and upwards.

  • http://www.alozuldo.blogspot.com alozuldo

    Looks great!!!
    Nice job!!

  • http://twitter.com/isthatagherkin isthatagherkin

    Thanks for going to wordpress! Much much quicker!

  • Coppertop

    Pure awesomeness! I can finally scroll the page without a headache, and it looks better too! This site just keeps getting better and better.

  • http://twitter.com/nloudon1 Nathan Loudon

    Seriously fantastic! Very very professional looking, clean, slick site! Love it!

  • http://twitter.com/CalumSult CalumSult

    Looks good! Seems faster for me too, excellent work!

  • http://twitter.com/mrmcq2u John McHugh

    Excelent job on the new site. Its awesome :D

  • http://alexandrius.myopenid.com/ alexandrius

    This is so funny, i was checking Google Reader and clicked on of the omgubuntu links. When i saw page i thought google has mixed something and i’m at different website :)

  • Anonymous

    woot

  • Schiwe

    Welcome to the world of wordpress! Very clean design i like it very very , Well done.

  • http://twitter.com/dummyxl dummyxl

    OMG… There was NO OMG Ubuntu THE ALL DAY LONG! …
    But i hoped that the reason was the port to the new site.

    Congratulations It’s looking really nice indeed.

    Cheers!

  • Jman6495

    OMG ! IT’S EPIC :D

  • Manuel

    WOW! Love the new design! Keep working like that : )

  • Anonymous

    MAJOR improvement. But I think it would look nicer if it was the purple gradients were the black gradients like in ambiance. But seriously. AWESOME

  • Vole

    Looks great!

  • Anonymous

    I have to agree, if I wanted sterile I’d go to an Apple store.

  • http://twitter.com/omfgitsadammm adamm !

    Oh please..

  • http://mpscripts.com Thomas Boxley

    This new site is awesome. I love it.

  • daas88

    Yes, black font please! This light gray font is hurting my eyes u.u

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AHWVVQNSO5WHLGVSZI7V6B5KRA Brian Powell

    You should add a “submit to Reddit” icon to the stories.

  • http://zifre.myopenid.com/ Zifre

    Any way to get rid of the social junk permanently stuck to the top of the page?

  • http://mpscripts.com Thomas Boxley

    Please remove the slideshow box on top when viewing articles. It looks fantastic on the index page though.

  • Dan

    nniiiccceee :)

  • AlexIdentity

    It looks good. :)

  • http://twitter.com/jojoman02 Abbas Khan

    site scrolls a lot faster for me, before it was slow (when zoomed) if i scrolled up/down.

  • http://eduardodx.com.br Eduardo Dx

    Oh! I really liked this new theme. =D

  • http://twitter.com/cyrildz cyrildz

    this new look make me feel on Maverick !!! great job guys!!!!

  • Misterpah

    love the new design!!

  • Lufred Lc

    OMG i love it :3!!

  • Mark

    Nice looks. Too bad that scrolly-banner-thingy’s counter is very CPU-intensive in my case. I had to block it.

  • http://twitter.com/llawwehttam Matt Wall

    got a new site?So have Ihttp://matt-linux-log.blogspot.com/

    I’ll let you away this time but in future please keep the blatant self promotion down – we’re an Ubuntu news site, not craigslist.

  • http://twitter.com/swyzer Taymaz Foladi

    Awesome new page!!

  • zree

    I am using Nokia 5800 Touch….so I would love to have a mobile site for OMG Ubuntu………Can I expect it……..or if it has already one please update it in this post with the link…..

  • http://altwave.tumblr.com/ Artem Yushchenko

    i <3 it

  • Anonymous

    Working on it.

  • http://twitter.com/llawwehttam Matt Wall

    Nice!.

    posted a link to this site in the recommended site’s section of my site: http://matt-linux-log.blogspot.com/

  • Al

    Glad to see you migrated to WordPress AND a dedicated server.

    I’m also glad you guys got rid of that annoying floating bar with all the social network links; it was probably my least favourite part of the site.

  • http://www.bogmil.com/ Bo

    Usually a redesign of a website means its near death (look what happened to Digg). Not in your case. AWESOME DESIGN! Every design element is awesome! Keep it up mate!

  • http://alexandos.org Alexander

    I kind of liked the old colours, with more orange. Oh well, this is still really pretty!

  • el pollo diablo

    I like it very much … except the favicon

  • Steve

    You also managed to kill your old feed, I’ve been wondering why the feed hadn’t been updated in a week, I assumed you were all on holiday!

 
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