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Improvements to New YUI Blog Theme

Objective

• Wrong copyright. Should be: "© 2012 Yahoo! Inc." not: "© 2012 YUI Blog"
• Search page is unusable: http://cl.ly/IiYS
  • Looks like the content is not inside a "yui3-u" node: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/?s=open+hours
• Linen texture should only be at the lowest layer of the design (I don't care that iOS uses it for the notification sheets, they did it wrong :)
• Home page's heading alignments are off:
  • Home page: http://cl.ly/Ijqg
  • Post page: http://cl.ly/Iiao
• Some comment counts are not appearing -- see the empty parentheses on pages like this: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/07/21/frontend-engineering-positions-available-with-the-yahoo-flex-force-team/

Subjective

Overall I'm not sure using the exact website header is the right thing to do. Here's why:

• You can barely tell you're on the blog, there's just a faint "Blog" in the header.
• The search is not the same search that the website has. This is confusing because it looks like our site at a glance but doesn't function like our site.
• The website's main navigation doesn't make sense for the blog, which is a separate website and has it's own main navigation items.

As the current website header stands today, I don't think it makes sense to whole verbatim on the blog. We should have a way to call attention to the fact that the user is on the blog, and provide an easy way for them to get back to the YUI Library main site.