Saturday, November 14, 2009
A redesign is indeed in the works
Saturday, November 14, 2009 
This site has been around for over seven years and it has served many purposes. It has enjoyed various degrees of informational relevance. It has displayed many designs - some decent, some awful. In it's present state, I side with awful.
As it happens with some projects, one gets overly excited about getting something live, when it wasn't quite ready, or when it ends up being something cobbled together in patches on the fly to fix things because it went live too soon. This site suffered this in version 8. The really wide column was intended for code blocks (AS3 and Obj-C)... however it makes all normal posts suffer. So I'll just let code scroll if it needs to and that will be that. Etc.
So version 9 is being coded at the moment, and it's looking good. I will give the initial skeleton a week's rest and then a review to see if it still holds up. If it does, I will flush it out, and then tag it up. And test. And re-test. And then give it another week to settle before inspecting again.
It's not a redesign for the sake of it being stale... I just don't think it works that well.
New site should be a lot better and hopefully something I can be proud of. No deadline, it just needs to happen.
As it happens with some projects, one gets overly excited about getting something live, when it wasn't quite ready, or when it ends up being something cobbled together in patches on the fly to fix things because it went live too soon. This site suffered this in version 8. The really wide column was intended for code blocks (AS3 and Obj-C)... however it makes all normal posts suffer. So I'll just let code scroll if it needs to and that will be that. Etc.
So version 9 is being coded at the moment, and it's looking good. I will give the initial skeleton a week's rest and then a review to see if it still holds up. If it does, I will flush it out, and then tag it up. And test. And re-test. And then give it another week to settle before inspecting again.
It's not a redesign for the sake of it being stale... I just don't think it works that well.
New site should be a lot better and hopefully something I can be proud of. No deadline, it just needs to happen.
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e.dolecki said...“test”
