2014 Survey The Barefoot Nomad

Help Us Improve The Barefoot Nomad (And Our New Look!)

ByMicki Kosman

It’s time for our first ever website survey! It’s your chance to tell us how we can improve, what you like and what just isn’t working for you.

We’re excited to get your input and see how we’re doing.

2014 Survey The Barefoot Nomad

What articles would you like to see? Are there tips and stories that you’d like to read? Do you wish we included more ways to save money while traveling or do you want to hear more stories involving monkeys? Feel there’s a particular location we should focus more on?

How about the site itself? Is there anything about the site that just drives you batty? Can’t stand our color scheme? Hate our logo? Think we need more pictures?

Let us know the good, the bad, and the ugly; we really want to know what you think.

It’s short, completely anonymous and won’t take you long.

Take the survey here.

Your opinion matters. We read each and every answer!

The New Look

You may have noticed that things here are looking a little different these days.

It was time for a more modern, streamlined look.

Why the Change?

It’s time.

Over the past few years, we’ve worked hard to make the articles on this site better and better. That meant working hard on writing articles that are helpful and interesting, and capturing good photos.

We’ve changed a lot in the last few years, and this new look reflects better where we’re at right now.

Better. Stronger. Faster.

We’re now fully mobile responsive, meaning that the new theme should resize accordingly no matter what resolution and size of mobile phone or tablet you’re reading us on.

Notes on what’s to come

There are still a few tweaks left to do under the hood. In the coming months, we’re going to be redesigning the front page a bit, and tweaking the navigation so you can find your way around a bit better. We’re also planning on adding some landing pages with better overviews of certain categories and places.

As you click around, we’d love your feedback about what you like and don’t like. Is there anything we could do better?  Something not working the way it should on your device? Articles you wished we added or topics we should cover more? We’d love to know.

Click here to take the survey. It should take less than a minute.

Or, if you prefer, you can simply leave a comment below. Tell us what we can do to help make this site more useful for you.

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11 Comments

  1. I really like the way this blog looks NOW. I like the verticals and the “random,” which is especially fun. What would you like to achieve with a redesign? Are you thinking of a compelte overhaul or just a new skin?

    Reply

    1. Hi Jennifer! Thanks so much for the kind words. We just put in a new theme, so we’re not looking at changing that. We’re just planning on a few tweaks here and there for the design.

      Reply

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