Hi guys, My name's Ernie Smith, and I run this site called ShortFormBlog. It's something of a big, broad side project I do on top of my full-time job at the Wa

Hi guys, My name's Ernie Smith, and I run this site called ShortFormBlog. It's something of a big, broad side project I do on top of my full-time job at the Washington Post Express, but the basic idea is that I try to use design and humor to give you the heart of a story using brevity. It covers a little of everything, but focuses mostly on news, politics and technology, with little regular features here and there. I've been working on the site for nearly ten months. In that time, I've seen what works and what doesn't with the site's design. So, I've been working hard to make sure it evolves along with the nature of how it's read. I had three set goals when I put together the redesign: 1. Simplify the front page: I felt that reading the news blurbs on the front needed to be a simpler process, one that was uncluttered. I wanted the focus to be on the simple bites of information, not all the other stuff that comes with the territory. So I tried to get the furniture out of the way to emphasize content. 2. Make the inside pages easier to navigate: When the site started, the focus was on the front page experience over that of the inside pages. Over time, it became clear that most people were visiting the site from individual links. So a huge goal was to make the site as easy to navigate from a retweeted link as the front page. 3. Encourage exploration: There are a lot of posts on the site – at last count, nearly 4,500. That number is growing daily. I want to make the site something you can dig into and look around for a while. I'd like to know four things: What you like, what you don't like, what's broken, and what's missing. Does something confuse you? Does something look really awesome? Can I expand on an idea further? Let me know. I want to make this site awesome. Any way I can help make it better, I'd like to. For contrast, here's the site's current design: http://shortformblog.com/?wptheme=shrtfrmblg http://shortformblog.com/?wptheme=shrtfrmblg Compare. Contrast. Try a few things. Let me know how to do this better. It's much appreciated.