New Design

Welcome to the newly re-designed site (or version 3.0 if you prefer!)

The reason for changing the design was that I didn’t like the look of it after a while and also the code was riddled with errors which I was not happy with. This was mainly due to site being built in Summer 2008 when I had a lot less knowledge and skills in comparison to what I have now.

Through a combination of learning at University, reading blog posts and listening to podcasts I feel that my skills have improved considerably over the past few months and that a re-design was a natural progression of these new found skills. The aim of the blog was always to be a kind of personal playground if you like where I could put into practice skills and techniques that I pick up as my learning continues.

As with any new launch, the likelihood is that there will be a few bugs somewhere along the line so if you find any please either leave a comment here or drop me an email.

2 Responses to New Design

Craig | fusedreality says: February 25, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Looking good! Seems to me you’ve made some great improvements in the past few months. I like it!

Although, as you expected… there are a few bugs. The navigation hides itself under your introduction in IE7 and some of the padding seems a little off in the navigation and the header. Also, I feel inclined to tell you that the ‘Read More’ links on the home page aren’t good for accessibility – and could be fixed by adding ‘Read More on $$$’ so that screen readers have a better experience.

But over all this is a great change! If you need a hand, you know where to drop and email.

Graeme says: February 25, 2009 at 6:05 pm

Yeah I noticed that, appear to have forgotten to change it before going live – oops!

It appears to be sorted now though and just going to work through some of the other wee bugs.

Thanks for the feedback!