So what do you think? Its just a little different the last iteration. Following on from the two dark themes that have clothed this site for the past year, I figured it was time to try something new. Something lighter, with less lines dividing it all up. Besides there were a few thing that I never really got around to finishing on my last design, and there were a few things that didn’t work out as well as I had hoped.
Lets get the bad out of the way. Initially I really liked my homepage, with the focus on a single post, some downloads and a couple of sidenotes, but I felt like the less recent stuff was being missed by new visitors, and I noticed I wasn’t receiving the same number of comments as I had previously. Long before I started work on this design I knew that I would be switching back to showing the last ten or so posts on the homepage. I’ve also switched back to a more conventional sidebar, instead of the combination of sidebar and bottom block arrangement that I had with the last design.
Behind the scenes I’ve fiddled with the structure of the site a little, mainly the ‘Projects’ section which replaces the ‘WordPress’ section. All the old links should still work, but there is a chance that I’ll break them so don’t use them, use the NEW links. The switch to a “projects” section was mainly due to the fact that I do more than just WordPress themes and plugins and wanted one section to cover everything.
There still bits and pieces that I haven’t finished entirely, but the goal was to get all the major functionality finished, then get it online and see what I’ve missed (theres always something). So over the coming weeks I’ll be finishing off the little bits here and there. Its not like there are huge sections left, but I’ve changed how some things are displayed which requires me to go through and edit a whole heap of posts…not really looking forward to that.
So have a look around, if you find something that looks out of place, or broken please let me know so that I can check it out. All feedback is welcome.
