Site Re-Design
Not even a year since the last re-design, it’s that time again. Whilst I liked the previous design at the time, it wasn’t too long before I started getting the itch to re-do it again. I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the design after a while and recently found the time to re-do it again, keeping the same loose structure and style but updated slightly and less cluttered I think.
For a good while I wanted to include as much information as possible and the site didn’t always have room to breathe and there was limited amounts of whitespace, but this time I’ve tried to space things out better and provide more whitespace to display the most important elements of the site clearly. The same structure is kept as before but just slightly altered to show off the content a bit more.
The site is built using HTML5 and CSS 3 wherever possible and as such looks better in the good browsers and should gracefully degrade in the not so good ones (hello Microsoft!). IE6 I didn’t bother wasting my time with this time, very few people visit this site using that browser and it wasn’t worth my time. Instead, I served it the excellent Universal stylesheet from Andy Clarke. The site works fine in IE7 and IE8 although it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that it should have. I also upgraded to WordPress 3 and have been playing about with the new custom post types, I’m not quite there with it yet but should have them fully set up and working soon.
I also created a custom iPhone stylesheet which displays the site in a basic manner at the moment, which will improve over the next few weeks as I learn more about creating a specific iPhone stylesheet and improve on the usability and experience of viewing the site on an iPhone. At the moment, content is displayed but it needs more work to improve on the basic layout it currently has.
There’ll still be more improvements and tweaks to the site over the next few weeks as I don’t think it’s perfect and there are areas I need to work on, but I felt it was ok to release and work on the relatively small tweaks over time.
3 Responses to Site Re-Design
Jack Osborne says:
August 4, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Nice job Graeme, looking much more slick.
Jack Osborne says:
August 4, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Just noticed you need to clear some of your floats on this page – http://graemepirie.com/category/html5/
Graeme says:
August 4, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Cheers Jack. Yeah well spotted on that one, I knew it wasn’t perfect when I pushed it live. Still tweaking wee bits and I’ll tidy that one up, thanks for the heads up.
