Rework

22 January 2007

As you may have noticed (unless you’re reading via RSS), I’ve done a minor redesign to this here site. Gone is the heavy red top bar and slightly odd logotype, replaced by something altogether lighter and simpler. The focus here is on the content – I’‘m trying to strip away as much “fluff” as possible, while still keeping it looking nice.

Also gone is the sidebar, which has effectively moved to the top and bottom of the page. The reasons for this are two-fold; firstly, the sidebar triggered a very strange bug in Safari which would mean it would occasionally get rendered twice which looked fairly nasty – I think it was something to do with the js image resizing, but any attempts to work around it would cause Safari to crash. Secondly, I’ve always quite liked having a one column layout as it really focuses the reader on the single article, without extraneous imagery and text in their periphery.

Not content with redesigning my site this weekend, I’ve also done a similar job for Goldrush. They’ve got a rather splendid new album out soon, so we’ve re-jigged the site to fit in with the look of the artwork.

As you can see from my work page the Goldrush site was one of the first sites I did on Textpattern, and it’s one of the first CSS sites I’ve gone back to to rework – it was surprisingly easy to do, with almost no html changes; all thanks to the power of CSS.

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22 January 2007