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One Page Love 3.0 — Infinitely scroll through design inspiration
The One Page Love v3 redesign is here! Highlights include a new fixed header with suggestive search. Archives now feature long-scrolling website screenshots (via new CDN) with infinite scroll functionality. Not to mention a new color scheme, logo & typeface!
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Thank you Ahmad, I think my record is 7 in a day;) But yes, averaging around 9 a week now, I think 2 a day is a golden number:)
Hey PH!
Can you believe One Page Love turns 11 next week! Over the past few months I’ve been testing new features and I’m stoked to finally announce the v3 redesign is here. Let’s dive into the changes...
- New Logo, Color Scheme & Typeface - It’s time to say goodbye to a decade of pink and roll out the carpet to a stronger red color scheme, a tighter logo and the stunning Sofia Pro typeface.
- Fixed header with Suggestive Search - The (reduced-height) website header bar now stays visible as you scroll, allowing you to browse categories or search at any time. When searching you are now prompted with existing One Page Love categories, tags and content.
- Longer Website Screenshots in Archives - All long-scrolling One Pagers now appear at double the old length in the category archives and search results (example).
- Infinite Scroll Archives with new Image CDN - The website footer and numbered pagination is completely done. Long live infinite scrolling archives with new Image CDN (IMGIX) to help browse website inspiration and find feature references way faster.
- New Podcast category and interview series - Episode #001 is with @ajlkn
- Website reviews can now preserve designs forever with a huge 2560px wide, Retina-optimized screenshot (example)
- New design of trend and top award round-ups (example)
- ALL free website template downloads are now hosted by One Page Love (example). This prevents One Page Love readers from visiting 3rd-party websites prompting signups and silly things.
@robhope Wooo! Congrats Rob! This is a great improvement. Also, to be doing this for 11 years is a huge accomplishment in itself!
@colinwinhall Ha, it's like my little child I've watched grow up hey Colin! But yes, there is absolutely no ways it would have got to this stage if I wasn't passionate about searching, collecting and building simple, clean One Page websites that get straight to the point:) Thanks for the message, really appreciate it!
@robhope Hey! are you thinking time_spent as the kpi for the site or number of subsequent sessions by teh same visitors as the main kpi?
and what are you using to know those numbers? google analytics?
@ddevjani Hi Deepak! It's Google Analytics (embedded as high as possible lol) It's interesting how KPI has changed for me over time. Definitely not page views (with new infinite scroll) but average time on site is important to me and of course bounce rate. 72% of traffic is organic search and as beautiful as that sounds, I'd love a higher percentage of core followers filling in. Just trying to add value each day and hope for the best!
Been using Robs amazing platform for what, 8 years now? And I still come back every week to see what epic designs he has found yet again. Keep it going man! 👏🏻
@dannypostmaa 8 years, big love Danny! Added a comment earlier on this thread saying it's incredible what daily work becomes over time.... 7000 posts o_O - I probably need to break down a lot of the designs and I think more people need to know about IMGIX and how you simply change the string after the image URL to change dimensions/design vs uploading "featured images" of 7000 posts. What is your setup on LandingFolio?
@robhope Dude, I was thinking about that yesterday. I need to send you my scraper I build in Google Spreadsheets. Saves you even more time. Check your mail ;).
I don't rely on my Screenshot API hosted elsewhere as I want to host the screens myself. Too scared they will loose their database one day and I loose al my content.
@dannypostmaa Cheers, will look out the email. So IMGIX duplicate your folder and then start delivering the images. Setup ridiculously easy. In other words, you always have your folder of "master images" on your hosting.
Congrats on the launch @robhope! Always enjoyed One Page Love as a source of inspiration and I love this re-design, keep up the great work!
@de Cheers Dan - appreciate the message - I actually rolled out the 4 column grid layout 2 weeks ago with 3 different height thumbnails that creating "browsing fatigue". Reverting to 3 columns with 2 thumb heights improved the experience SO MUCH. I really need to write a blog about this soon, maybe I'll make a video.
I am big fan of Rob's work, would like to thank him for embracing changes at right time.
Pros:- Creating positive impacts on web design - Great reviews on One Page sites - Much needed Infinite scroll (v3) - Improved UX (v3)
Cons:None!
I'd say the infinite scroll was about 2 years overdue! Thanks for the supportive words, glad you agree the UX is better:)
V3 looks and feels much better! 😍 thanks for embracing changes at right time. +1 for infinite scroll, long screenshots and optimized/faster OPL 👏
@musharofchy thank you Musharof! I was actually going to announce last week but the 4 column design wasn't right, so glad I delayed. It's really tight now and that new CDN is wonderful. Thanks so much for the support as always 🙏
@robhope I replied you via email immediately as you asked for review. Seems, changes are more than felt at glance. You are most welcome man, much love ❤️
Rob,
🦸♂️ It's no secret I'm a big fan of your work but I really I love this new design, especially the attention to detail on the longer screenshots.
What was your thought process around changing the logo type? Was it necessary to bring the brand up to a more mature level or was it purely aesthetic?
The new search functionality is promising, nice work all round!
@marcperel cheers for the love man. Yeah good question about branding. TBH that old pink was killing me as I work on OPL all day lol. It was time for change but what I didn't mention was this rebranding (intentionally) paves the way for the Email Love dual-branding using the same red.
Always long game, one launch at a time;)
Hi @robhope I know One Page Love 3.0 was launched quite a while ago but I just wanted to appreciate your day to day effort for updating this carefully curated collection. As a landing page creator I've learned a lot from the Inspiration section to use in my projects.
@inovatik Thanks so much for these kind words Lucian - if you ever need feedback on your Landing Pages, please let me know!
@tostartafire Hey Dan - really appreciate the constructive comment here. So you are the first to mention this after a couple weeks testing and I'd love to know a bit more. In my opinion the quality of @1x non-Retina archive images are a bit low and I need to increase it. The huge problem is when resizing 7k images and setting a direct quality of just say 50% is there are some busy images (trees, crowds) that land up being huge file sizes. Can you please share what device you are running and browser? Many thanks!
@1x @robhope chrome, I have a macbook pro 2017 plugged to a dell external monitor (not a great one). I see the issue on either screen. The problem is that low res jpgs leave that pixelated residue (whatever that's called) around elements/corners in the image, specially around text. I'm no designer, but was always instructed to save images with text in it as PNGs, but then you pay for the large size. I honestly don't know of a batch way of doing this, I was going to suggest using a 3rd party api to to the resizing for you but it looks like you are already using one. It might be a matter of tweaking settings with imgix or prepping images before hand by using photoshop actions.
I would suggest resize first, compress second.
@1x @tostartafire Thanks for the suggestion Dan and also for your specs, will keep optimizing as I go. Next up is refining the Podcast format then Email Love launch! Again, I really appreciate this feedback - cheers!
@jimcanto Please keep sending them Jim - best part of a community is the interactive between just two people (like you and me) can lead thousands of others into a better place. Thanks for the kind words!
Congrats with the launch! It's really so inspirational! ✨
If you wish, I'm happy to see One Page Love in Awesome Design Tools (https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Aw...), which is the biggest collection of design tools on GitHub.
Congrats again!
@valiahavruliyk Thanks so much Valia :) I'd really appreicate the addition of OPL in this quality collection... what can I do?
But I hate change!!!
Just kidding, very nice work here Mr. Hope - 11 years is a long time! I'm particularly excited about that new podcast category.
@johnonolan - yeah, OPL almost a teen!
Cheers, got some respectable guests coming up ;P
Cheers! I'm trying to get stricter with curating. But more lenient on categories with less references if that makes sense. The goal is always try save the user time but providing the best references as possible (often relating to client brief).
High quality inspiration on one pagers... Too easy.
Pros:Quick to load, lots of content, easy to use.
Cons:None at the moment.
That IMGIX CDN truly is the MVP on this redesign. Glad you finding the load time nippy.
Epic work Rob! You've struck a great balance with this!
The branding is great - a subtle evolution that feels familiar to One Page Love which also packs a punch from that new red.
@mattjhoughton Cheers man, yeah I was saying to @marcperel that pink was slowly killing me lol. But yeah, feels stronger. I've been testing it locally for months and really quite an eyesore when reverting to pink - so the right move!
Hey Rob,
I've been following your website since I can remember and this improvement is just another solid step in the right direction. Love the colors, header, infinite scroll and the masonry like layout. The subtle logo edit looks great too :)
Keep up the great work and bring on those wonderful inspirational websites!
@pirenko Thank you so much! I'm so glad I rolled out the features over months instead of one big go. Much easier to solve issues incrementally and fully understand why each one didn't go to plan.
11 years! @robhope Thank you for making the internet a beautiful place. I've known about OPL for a while now and it's just amazing to see how it has turned out even better with the update. Love everything about it ^^
@ahmad_alam1 thanks so much Ahmad! Yeah 11, like a child growing up all so fast:) Thanks again for the kind words, the community is a huge reason I keep going.
Great work @robhope and @manuelmoreale. This takes what was already working well and makes it even better. I love these kinds of updates. Keep on evolving and OPL will keep going strong for another 11+ years.
@manuelmoreale @gregpriday Cheers! Yeah quite challenging making design changes to posts of 10yrs old with tiny screenshots and no custom review. But happy with how it came out, all about giving users the inspiration they are after.
Nicely done @robhope ! Great source of inspiration will be even much better now! :)
Pros:Lot's of cool podcasts, designs and templates
Cons:None
Cheers Daniel - really stoked to release more Podcast episodes soon, just had to ship this v3 release:)
Eine interessante entscheidung.
Als novize ist es für mich nützlich, die arbeit anderer zu betrachten.
@werner_shlutz What is interesting Werner is every website I feature I try understand their business too. Daily learning for me and I love it:)
Create Node CLI
You should submit your site here to get more eyeballs :)
Pros:Best site for finding design inspiration, that actually gets updated every week or sometimes every day!
Cons:None. None. None. Did I say none?