2. I will think about it and I’ll try to find the best way to present myself in a way that not affects my privacy . Anyway, my name is Adrian

3. The Privacy Policy is also on todo list.

Thank you again!

@HideIP Admin
If I may reply back
1. Previous point 5: Why do you say “The subscribe via email is not present at this time in the design”? I can see it right here, just under “POST COMMENT” – it reads “Subscribe without commenting” and the “Subscribe” botton is clickable. Does it not subscribe you?
2. Previous point 9: It’s up to you, of course, but it adds to the trust aspect. Oh, and no one’s asking for your CV (we seem to have …hired you already, lol).

And one new point: I know this is a site about privacy & anonymity and I do understand that keeping it up & running doesn’t come free, but – if I may and with due respect – the web bugs seem to compromise the goal of this site right at base level. Unless one chooses/ acts on opting out/ preventing their tracking business, he/ she has already shared more info about him/ herself than intended (that’s why I stressed out that the Privacy Policy needs to clearly make aware of their existence & what they do; depending on the browser used & its configuration, readers might not even realize they’re here).

Hope the above is ok with you,
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1. Indeed, it loads faster and I’m very happy with it.
2. You are absolutely right: I’ll keep it a while longer
3. The yellow stripe indeed stands out, but I like it.
4. Again you have a point. The sidebar needed more content. I have added some and I’ll continue to add and remove widgets until I get the best (in my opinion) combination.
5. The subscribe via email is not present at this time in the design but I’ll add it later this week. It will be difficult to find a proper place for it.
6. Yup, that is the weak part of the design. I have to find a solution to make the footer more vibrant.
7. I’m not sure it is possible, but thanks for the suggestion.
8. Indeed, How-to-hide-ip.info needs Privacy Statement and I’ll do it soon.
9. This site is about privacy and anonymity, but I’m not hiding. I just don’t feel it is very important who I am. But if someone is interest I could do a more detailed About me page

I’m very grateful to you and all those who posted a comment on this post. You helped me a lot to make How-to-hide-ip.info. THANK YOU!

Well, this is quite some change – to the better that is. Everything looks definetely more up to date and sends out the message that the owner of the site really cares about what he’s doing here.
My first thoughts:
1. The pages load/ render faster, which is a great improvement.
2. The logo is well made (artistically), but can be interpreted two ways as to what this site represents and stands for (already pointed out). Regarding your statement “I’ll keep it for a while” – if I may say so, since you’re doing a “big” change, it’s better to stick with your choices longer than just “a while”, as frequent changes can also send out the wrong message.
3. Light colors seem more appropriate to this site. My only objection here is the tone/ shade of that yellow: it sticks out as too intense in relation to the tones of blue and grey used. I think, something more “pale” would match better (but that’s just me).
4. Home structure: left & central part serves the purpose of checking things out in a glance well. Right side (is that the sidebar?) sort of screams “I need more content” – I always found the blog archives to be really handy, maybe you could put them back there. Maybe the “Categories” would fit better here as well.
5. Subscribing via email should move up to the top: if one does not scroll down to post a comment or read all the comments, he’ll think subscribing is only possible via RSS – maybe you want to promote that way over email, but you might loose potential subscribers who don’t like/ want live bookmarks.
6. Is “Categories” part of the footer? The whole bottom part doesn’t attrack your attention, I think because of those pale grey fonts on pale grey background – maybe try something with the fonts or consider a different color match between fonts & bakcround?
7. I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “the post page” – are you refering to the post comments section or the contact page? If it’s the first, the space for comments could be a bit bigger – that scrolling bar kicks in way too soon. A preview would also be nice, though I’ve only seen it on forums and don’t know if it can be implemented as easily as said.
8. You need to put a Privacy Policy statement, with clear & honest statements on privacy – personal data AND the web bugs on the site. It always raises distrust if one is not provided, even more if it’s missing on a site like this one. The Policy could surve you also to stress out the positive aspects of this site – one can post here without allowing cookies (positive), so why not let people know about it?
9. I don’t know how you feel about adding an “About Me”, since this is a site about “concealing” who we are – it’s just a thought, given since it’s more reassuring to know at least a bit about who’s running a site.

Ok, I think I said enough – maybe even more than enough, but all in good faith.
One last thing: All the above is based on the fact that my browser’s configuration cuts off or alters the look of a lot of stuff, so the content I see might be quite different from the actual one (though I allowed javascript in order to have a better look).

Thanks for the improved looking & working site,
ad_infinitum

Thanks

Keep up the good work

Thanks

boyzee

PS I won one of your your Christmas prizes so don’t enter me for the draw

@hideipuser – To be totally honest the hat was the suggestion of the designer. At first, I did not think it was appropriate, but I kind of like it now. It suggests that you can “magically” hide your IP address

@kingpin – The colors were my choice because I wanted to have a clean and light blog. The plan is to make it more vibrant with the content, but I may add some colors to the design later. February 15 is not the birthday of How-to-hide-ip, it’s just the half of the month. Not special reason for choosing it The actual birthday of this blog is December 11th 2007.

@Moh – Thank you for being honest. The logo seems to be liked by some and hated by others, but I think I’ll keep it for a while. Thank you also for the other suggestions. I will take them into consideration.

@xantzaras – Thank you for taking time to evaluate the new design.

2. You can find the latest post on the left column. Not it shows the posts correctly.
4. I’ll add them soon.
5,6. Also on todo list.
7. I will. I’m preparing a new giveaway and a discount offer for the next week.
8. Thanks for the tip. I’ll update the posts and remove alonweb from the poll.

@Zoe Strickman – I appreciate your feedback. As I said, maybe the logo it’s not the best idea but I think that it’s interesting and I’ll keep it for a while. Regarding the colors, I don’t think that all security/anonymity site should be black or dark colored. My goal was to redesign the blog into something easy to read by all kind of users. The dark colors usually attract several categories but scare most of them. How-to-hide-ip.info is not a hacking site (even if some methods presented here could be used in this way), it’s more a blog that fights against censorship (that explains the content related to Chinese firewall), helps people to browse anonymously and to unblock georestricted websites.

@patrick feenan – ) I think will pass the rabbit this time.