Juvenall Wilson

A few months back, I managed to get the time to sit down and try to hash out a new layout for this site. At fist, I was really on to something and loved where I was going. However, right in the middle of development, something major came up in my life that sorta forced me to cut a LOT of corners with respect to the design. I even found myself unable to finish off some of the most basic of features (like the completely missing footer that reader Omar constantly yelled at me for). Now, in a professional capacity, I wouldn’t let things go like that, but since this is simply a personal site, I didn’t have the same qualms.

Well, after working (and getting thoroughly burned on on) another project, I decided it was time to finish this up or just dump it all together. Luckily for me, I still had all of the original PSDs I created for the design. That shaved a lot of time since I didn’t want to do a major overhaul (I don’t hate it that much). So after a few hours, I had something I liked, built it out and finally threw together the theme.

Like I said, overall, not a drastic level of change. The entire content area was pulled together under a rounded outline, the header was cut back a shade, the search box was restored and I iconified several parts because it was looking sorta sparse. The biggest change, however, was to the comment system. I had a good idea before, but damn was it a mess. I removed the rounded corners (not worth the extra markup, and little else here is rounded, so what was the point?), improved the overall padding, fixed the colors, highlighted the reply form and again, iconified things for sexyness. I’ve also updated the photos section, cleaned up some junk code, streamlined parts of the xhtml (div soup is icky) and just for Omar, added a footer so he knows when the page has ended.

Feel free to leave feedback and tell me how shitty everything looks. Then again, I guess it could be worse. It could look like Leo Laporte’s site (sorry Leo, it just feels so ‘98..lol).