Welcome to the new blog design

Redesigning our blogs reminded me of painting the walls at home. It’s one of those things you never have the time to get around to, but are happy when you finally do!

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Here’s a picture of my old blog theme, as a reminder:

We updated the design for a number of the developer tools blogs, and also created a network tying them together. (You can learn more about the new blog network on the Visual Studio team blog.) Beyond updating the style, there were a few things we wanted to do with the redesign. Of course we wanted to make it easy to read, comment on, and subscribe to posts. We also wanted to make it easy to share and discuss the posts with others, by adding social media buttons. Finally, we wanted to provide additional ways to connect with us, by including video and Twitter feeds.

I hope you enjoy this refresh, and the additional integration. I’m looking forward to continuing many more conversations here in the future.

Enjoy!

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Comments

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2012
  Dare I hope that commenting actually works reliably now?

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2012
  Looks good.

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2012
  When are we going to see the new design? :-)

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2012
  The set of tabs at the top really is a plus. Missing blogs: Blaine Wastell - patterns & practices client architecture guidance - Site Home - MSDN Blogs blogs.msdn.com/.../blaine .NET Security Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2012
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  May 30, 2012
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• Anonymous
  May 30, 2012
  Let's hope you are going to start taking comments a bit more seriously

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2012
  looks good to me, i like "clean" layouts