Juvenall.com Redesign Finished
Allow me to be the first to say that I, Juvenall Wilson, am a picky bitch. Back in January, I took a couple of days to rework this site with the design on the right. It fixed a number of display bugs, reworked the font classes and added some sexy AJAX goodness. When I finished it, I was thrilled; for about a week. It was still too dark, the fonts too small and I hated the general look of it.
Normally, I would have worked on fixing it right away, but I started working for a health food company a few days later and the design took a back seat. Clearly, I had to put work before personal sites. Little did I know that the company was in such a sad state, that it would take up 95% of my day. It was so bad, that I even found myself unable to post as much as I had in 2005. For a while, it was looking like this was going to turn into a ghost town.
So two nights ago, I spent a few hours in Photoshop and comped out a new layout. Then, at 6am, I finally hit upon something I liked and started to work on the build. Then last night, I worked it into Wordpress and let it go live while I knocked out some bugs. Today, I finished off the photo gallery, cleaned up a few IE bugs and now I think it’s ready to go. Sure, it’s not the best work I’ve ever done, but for 2 days of work, I’m happy with it.
Now, I’m sure some will jump on me for using a fixed width layout that’s wider than 800px. To them, I say “piss off”. First, a “liquid layout” is a retarded idea for a site where text is the primary content. The vast majority of people (and a number of well funded studies) show that people find reading monitor text uncomfortable when the lines are longer than 10-15 words. With a liquid layout, an entire paragraph could span into a line or two. Aside from the fact that’s ugly as sin, it’s hard to follow the point when vertigo sets in. Really, just try reading a really long Wikipedia article on a 21 inch monitor and see how long it takes before you find yourself slumped over the back of your chair vomiting and praying for death.
With respect to the width of the page, I can see several good arguments for this. Some people have a hard time reading things at a larger resolution, some simply can’t afford a modern monitor and yet others don’t browse at full screen. So we, as designers have been locked into this 800×600 death trap. This, in spite of the fact that for the last year or so, the majority of uses (on most sites) are using 1024×760. The numbers here show that 800×600 only accounts for 8% of uses. At that point, you have to ask yourself why you’re dumbing things down for the lowest common denominator? After all, bigger sites like ESPN and Yahoo’s new beta are giving them the boot, why not me?
I would love to hear what you think about the changes. Post or die!
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Damn, Juvie! The change is huge. One question tho - What are those things at the bottom of all the posts? Are they supposed to do something?
They are in the alien language! Heh.. don’t worry, I had to ask too. Then it hit me and I went ohhhhhh…groovalicious!
Those little icons are for social bookmarking. Basically, it’s a quick and simple way to save and share a post you like. Now you can keep track of posts and help promote me.
That’s right, market me! OBEY!
Ooo. Those that haven’t commented yet are missing out on some sexy AJAX. Very nice!
Yes, very sexy AJAX love. Muhahahaha.
I really dig the redesign. And the sushi? I wish I had thought of it first, darnit.
Why am I not shocked that YOU would like a picture of sushi?
Weeee nice redesign, now also some more posts and everything is perfect
Good luck posting from sushi-land!
Yeah, I hope I’ll have the time to get back to daily posting. In the span I was away, the site’s Alexa ranking sank down below 300,000.
The abundance of diggin’ icons are a bit too much, but generaly, I like it
I like the quotes and the vBulletin style adding of replies
Yeah, even I agree..lol. There are still a few things I can’t stand about this design, but I’m not about to screw with them for a while.
Now that you’ve got it re-done, finish it by removing the link to my blog which hasn’t existed in half a year…
I think I emailed you about it once, but of course you being a busy man everything can’t be noticed…
Looks goody. Even though sushi is crap.
A note, there is something fishy (sic!) about the comment system, for a while my previous comment was showing up as #1, but located below your latest comment, as #12 just like it should be. Re-opening the entry page fixed it.
Nice F/X though
*dies*
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