Migrating Design
I’m playing this redesign in old school fashion. By now you might have realized that the page you’re reading (if you’re not reading this through an rss reader) might look a bit like the preview you saw a few weeks back from the sneak peak preview which was available for Firefox and Safari users. At the moment I still have no clue what this looks like in Internet Explorer mainly because the only time I get to work on my website is at home - on my Mac Mini. If you’re still seeing the same ‘ol design and but would like to see the article pages, then grab the new cookie and come on back. I admit it’s still a bit raw, but hopefully it gives you (the readers) a bit of flexibility.
Anyway, it’s just a small update. Thass-all I got fur now.
August 26th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Weird…I didn’t see the new design, so I clicked “grab the new cookie.” All it did was bring me to your (old) homepage.
I tried clearing all cookies from this domain and tried again; nothing happened. If I go to your “sneek peak preview” page, then I can see it (love the width and contrast changing buttons). I go to the homepage, it shows me the old design. I click to come to this page again, and it’s still the old design.
Confusing.
But yeah, definitely cool new look. I just wish I could see it on more than one page…
August 26th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
heh, now it’s fully kicked in. Go figure.
August 27th, 2006 at 5:27 am
Your browser sniffing is broken. It sends me to a page stating that “This page is for Safari and Firefox”; I’m in NetNewsWire, which uses WebKit, which is the same rendering engine as Safari. You need to check for the presence of “WebKit” in the User Agent header, I think. HTH :-)
August 27th, 2006 at 7:56 am
I would rethink your whole design process.
The javascript features and bare layout are to stay, even the color scheme you can use that. but you need to make it like your first website more; with the nice header. Add some fun image for the header, I dont know.
Some suggestions:
http://www.webnova.com.ar/
http://www.firewheeldesign.com/
http://www.studiomikmik.co.uk/
August 27th, 2006 at 10:52 am
I have to say this now, because I see this on all sorts of sites an it pisses the hell out of me. I use Camino, which is basically firefox/safari, and on lots of beta sites, they use browser sniffing for *specific* browsers, and Camino is always excluded! Stop excluding Camino!
August 27th, 2006 at 11:45 am
A note ahead of time about me being a browser sniffer. Not only am I sniffing browsers for this first pass, but I’m sniffing them poor mans style. If I’m literally not getting back the words ‘FIREFOX’ or ‘SAFARI’ - then oh well. It’s not the worst thing in the world that you can’t see the preview. In the end, it’ll be opened up to all.
On another note, Johan, keep in mind that I wanted to free my self from anything with too much fluff. Anytime I get too creative with graphics, things tend to go down hill very fast. This one is very ala Simon Willison style.
August 27th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
> On another note, Johan, keep in mind that I wanted to free my self from anything with too much fluff.
I got carried away there, high five Dustin!
You could try a minimal design? That needs no graphics but good layout and use of whitespace.
Eg
http://somerandomdude.net/
http://www.unimagination.com/
September 1st, 2006 at 7:13 am
Dustin, to try it out in ie6 you’ve got to try this… It’s just plain WRONG, but fantastic without shelling out for Parallels or bothering with Dual Boot/Basecamp.
http://www.codeweavers.com/beta/cxmac/
Cross-over Mac - it’s a Wine / X-Windows type of thing allowing you to install from a select list of ‘bottled’ packages, which you download in the App and install. You can run them as independent programs, plus when you put an XP (software not OS) installer disk into your Mac it will recognise it as a Win32 software installer and try to help you out. Great stuff. But it’s still just horrible to see ie6 on my mac!
Hope it helps.
October 1st, 2006 at 4:17 pm
I like the redesign mostly. I’m wondering if there shouldn’t be more consistency between the liquid and fixed widths. Clicking from the homepage to one of the individual articles, it looks a little strange to have a really wide masthead and a somewhat narrow content column. I imagine on a large monitor with high resolution, it’s even more exaggerated.