Website redesign
Mood: productive
Music: Goo balls
Posted on 2008-03-01 20:48:00
Tags: homepage poll
Words: 40
After doing some more realish work today, I redesigned my website a bit. Here's the new version, and here's the old one for comparison.
I realize no one will see this now since it's Saturday, but feedback is always welcome!
17 comments
Comment from omega697:
2008-03-01T22:57:54+00:00
You should try the slide and blind effects and see if they are as cool or cooler. :oD
Comment from wonderjess:
2008-03-02T11:18:08+00:00
I like the way it looks when you click on the image -- the transition from all projects to only those projects looks really neat.
Comment from gregstoll:
2008-03-02T21:22:19+00:00
Thanks! (I didn't write those effects myself...)
Comment from wildrice13:
2008-03-02T19:10:51+00:00
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! So much more readable! So much cleaner!
Tiny tweak: make the first row of the table (in which you have the language gems) only as tall as the images contained therein, and center them.
Comment from gregstoll:
2008-03-02T21:23:03+00:00
I went ahead and got rid of the lines in the table (and centered the icons) - what do you think?
Comment from wildrice13:
2008-03-02T23:23:22+00:00
Hmm... now it looks a little too disorganized. Maybe thinner borders, if that's possible? Or lines rather than "bars"?
Comment from gregstoll:
2008-03-03T10:04:32+00:00
Now there are only vertical dividers (and a little more space) - how's it look?
Comment from wildrice13:
2008-03-03T13:04:32+00:00
Very nice :)
Comment from destroyerj:
2008-03-02T19:28:06+00:00
I voted for confusing and unnecessary, but I really only meant confusing. Since the 'images' really look like textboxes with colored backgrounds, and since they give no cursor feedback (i.e. the hand-that-means-a-link), I thought for a little while that some of the page hadn't loaded for me. The word icon might help some, and again some sort of mouseover feedback (whether the cursor or feedback on the icon itself). But it's pretty neat :).
Organization is good, and that's an improvement, but I think a table of contents to get to the various sections would be a much bigger win than just having the categories in the first place. Especially since the categories aren't all from the same realm of possibilities (one wouldn't by default assume that if a set of categories contains 'mathy' that it would also include 'world of warcraft'), it's a good thing to be able to see all the categories in one place without extra noise or scrolling.
Comment from gregstoll:
2008-03-02T21:26:32+00:00
Good point - forgot you could make the cursor a hand, but it is now! (what exactly made you think the page hadn't loaded?)
Excellent idea re table of contents - went ahead and put one in. (as well as links back to the top...then had to make those links not disappear...) I went for the single line approach - whaddaya think?
Comment from destroyerj:
2008-03-02T21:36:47+00:00
What made me think the page hadn't loaded was that the page says 'Click on an image...' and I didn't see anything that looked to me like an image - which is still the case, but now it's easier for me to think "oh, these colored textboxes must be the 'images', as I can click on them".
Table of contents good! It seems a little.. unbalanced? In that it's sorta narrow compared to everything around it. Maybe some sort of separation (space or line) between it and the actual categories would help that? Not sure. But that's pretty minor relaly :).
Comment from cifarelli:
2008-03-02T21:42:00+00:00
Another nitpick: Consider adding a | or other break between each TOC link so that the viewer can more easily tell where one link ends and the next begins.
Comment from gregstoll:
2008-03-02T22:13:05+00:00
I separated them by a bit more space now - is that enough?
Comment from cifarelli:
2008-03-02T22:21:26+00:00
That works.
I think I'd personally prefer a visual divider other than just the highlighting, but that may just be my personal preference. It's definitely better with more spacing, though.
Comment from onefishclappin:
2008-03-03T09:06:56+00:00
You need a little rainbow box above the "show all" :)
Comment from gregstoll:
2008-03-03T10:29:07+00:00
Haha, I like it! Done :-)
Comment from onefishclappin:
2008-03-03T11:41:06+00:00
Hehehe - cute!
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