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1. Racer X – Second Heat & Street Lethal
2. Yngwie Malmsteen – Rising Force
3. White Lion – Best Of (Vito Bratta was SO badass!)
4. Poison – Look What the Cat Dragged In
5. RATT – Out of the Cellar
6. Manowar – Kings of Metal
7. Whitesnake – Self Titled
8. Mötley Crüe – Shout at the Devil
9. Van Halen…Roth-era of course. I’m not knocking Sammy either. I love me some “Van Hagar” ballads, but today was about Roth and his leather pants.
10. Scorpions, Love At First Sting
11. Gorky Park…OK I just HAD to find that song about communism after listening to the Scorpions…

….and I found it!

“Bang” by Gorky Park. So amazing words cannot describe:

As many of you know, we are conducting a live redesign on our newsletters. This week we incorporated a new format that *should* minimize scrolling and enable you to quickly scan our product offering. We also hope the larger type is easier on the eyes.

In the coming weeks we hope to include more customer profiles, juicy design tips as well as interesting happenings going on around the Design Public offices. If you have feedback, comments or ideas on how to improve our newsletters please leave your input in the comments section below. Mocha Gracias!

Hey everybody! Thanks for taking the time to participate in our Newsletter feedback survey! The response was overwhelming and to my pleasant surprise, no one berated me or raked me over the coals. People even seem to – gasp – like us…Huzzah!

You shared your opinions already, it’s only fair I share some of the results of the survey and offer some commentary by yours truly:

1. “The newsletters are too narrow…”
   The newsletters are designed to fit the preview pane in Microsoft Outlook which is only about 600 or so pixels wide. If they were much wider portions of the newsletter could be cut off should you view it in Outlook. That being said, we’ll do what we can to get better content “above the fold” and simplify things a bit.
   
2. “Way too much baby stuff!”
   You got something against babies? OK, as soon as we can code it, we hope to provide the functionality to enable you to edit your subscription “preferences”. Here you should be able to choose to receive baby related content or not.
   
3. “Keep the intros, you are funny.”
   Why thank you but I can’t take all the credit…sometimes I get a little help from a super high profile content creation team we have in house. Click here for a picture of our best staff writer at Design Public headquarters.
   
4. “The sidebar links are not working in Gmail.”
   We’re aware of it and working on it. I LOVE me some gmail but it does some voodoo stuff to our code. It’ll be fixed in the next iteration of our newsletters.
   
5. “We like food!”
   Well you didn’t unanimously say that. But when I asked what other newsletters you subscribed to an overwhelming number of readers said they subscribe to newsletters from the likes of epicurious, chowhound.com and other foodie related destinations. You like food. I like food. You like design. I like design. What’s the connection? I dunno, perhaps a Design Public recipes section? Or, maybe you can just come over for dinner sometime. Any allergies?
6. “More design tips and advice…”
   10-4 on that one. I’m pulling in some industry experts to give you the best advice around…stand by.
7. “Puppies!”
   Yes, puppies.

Once again thanks for the feedback on the newsletters. You’ve given us some great ideas and awesome new projects to work on. If you’d like to add anything else to the discussion just leave it in the comments field below.

-matty