I've moved the site back to the previous design (v7). I've archived the other design for the two fans of it (I'm joking. I don't think that there was two fans of it.)
There are still whole sections that are in the old design. Portfolio, etc. Those will be moved over as soon as I get time. (evenings, etc) There are, in fact, a ton on inconsistences. I'm getting to them.
But the long and short of it is that this is a temporary stop-gap measure. I intend to polish this site, reworking every little damn thing I can focus on. God is in the details. Or the devil. Or both.
Once the polishing is done (if ever), I will work on a style switcher that allows new designs to be rolled out without the serious breakage that has happened here over the past couple of months.
I found basically that I was trying to do some impossible things with full-screen designs. It just wasn't going to work. I learnt from it (hopefully), and will apply it here.
I'll expound later on the reasons for switching, what I learnt, etc. I'm just really busy right now.
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Posted at 11:09 AM
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phnk
I didn't comment the return to the old design yet, it looks I'm getting an opportunity to do it now.
I think your new layout was a nice try, although you tried changing too many things at a time. You went for a dark color scheme: have you tried before some lighter colors?
Likewise, I like the pattern approach on the old (current) design. I even remember a pattern selector. Perhaps you should keep the idea of a patterned background too.
A new design may keep the best from the previous one and merge it with some novel elements. Much of your old design is übercool. Stopdesign followed this logic: its last redesign is quite conservative, but contains little improvements everywhere. Idem for SimpleBits.
My two cents.
Posted by: phnk | August 23, 2004 11:22 AM
Tony
I'll probably post on the return later, and then I'll move this comment there.
The pattern approach I do like. The pattern selector is just being converted to PHP. It was in ColdFusion before.
The main reason I switched back is that it just wasn't working for me. And I still had a lot of the basic template items from before. It was something someone said about polishing rather than redesigning. So I think I'll try that. Much like what SimpleBits did. polish until it hurts. Every little thing perfect. That's the goal.
Longer-term, I want to be able to swtich layouts. The structure between these two isn't drastic, so shouldn't be difficult.
Thanks for the comments François. Just so I'm clear, when you're talking about the "old" design, you're talking the pattern-one. The newer old would be the darker, full-screen version. I call this v7, and the full-screen v8. (there was a quick, gross in-between that lasted maybe three day. That no longer gets a version number out of spite.
Posted by: Tony | August 23, 2004 11:23 AM
phnk
That's it, you nailed it (on the design I was addressing as well as on polish vs. redesign).
Recently redesigned : http://www.hivelogic.com/
I think Meyer maintains a list of redesigns. I love browsing over other redesigns when I myself think of altering my site's layout.
Posted by: phnk | August 23, 2004 11:23 AM