Looksee, It’s a Redesign!
Sunday 07 May 2006

Having a quick look at my ‘secret’ testing pages where I test out a design and link to various little utilities/CSS/etc ‘things’, I found a rather shocking statement. The first thing on that page was put there “9 months, 4 weeks, 12 hours, 11 minutes ago"… blimey! The redesign has gone through many many changes and it’s not finished but it is now live.

  • Pewari‘s site has a redesign and I don’t want to be left out
  • The old site had some broken (even though it’s not been touched) javascript which meant the menu didn’t work, an unfinished design is better than a broken one?
  • The CSS Reboot happened May 1st and although today is the 7th, I can feel like a late bandwagon jumper
  • UNless this is actually live, I have the feeling I’ll never get around to finishing it, already I’m itching for another redesign

The redesign changes the content as well as the layout. In my (current) opinion the focus of the website should be the blog which is why I now favour a single column layout with one blog per page. Everything else which was available (or rather weasn’t because the javascript was broken) is still available (or will be when I get around to it).

Things still to do:

  • My image gallery page (I really need to take some more photos...) which isn’t linked to but is available. It needs layout changing to match rest of site.
  • Links, again they are around but not linked to. I just need to think about how I’m going to do what I want to do.
  • Tidying up, small changes here and there, testing in IE7 beta 2 and that kinda stuff

Today I like lists…

PickledPixie United Kingdom wrote:

Testing comment form rasberry

05.07.06 09:12 PM


Pewari United Kingdom wrote:

Your RSS is pointing the wrong way rasberry

The new design is fab btw… much better when I’m pointed at the correct page and I’m not squinting at it thinking “how do I politely tell him that I can’t tell the difference from the old one?!” wink

05.13.06 10:26 PM


PickledPixie United Kingdom wrote:

The RSS is pointing the wrong way? Not sure what you mean with that. Put it so an idiot like me can understand and I’ll try to fix it though smile

I’m kinda sick of the new design already, having spent far too long on finishing it (which I still haven’t done)… typical smile

05.15.06 02:10 PM


United Kingdom wrote:

Why would it need testing in IE7 beta 2?  I’m sure Microsoft will ensure it is fully standards compliant so there shouldn’t be any problems wink

05.16.06 08:29 PM


PickledPixie United Kingdom wrote:

Microsoft are working on making IE7 a lot more compliant than any other version but each browser still does things in its own little way. The problem with IE7 beta 2 and this site (well the only thing so far I’ve spotted) is the archives page, the year/month box thing doesn’t float to the right for some reason. There are possibly other things it does slightly differently.

One rather nice thing about IE7 is that instead of needing CSS hacks you can have an ‘if IE7’ CSS sheet.

05.16.06 08:46 PM


mmo United States wrote:

Redesign looks good

03.20.08 09:37 PM



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