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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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22 May 2006 - 11:37 pm
The basic look and feel of -273 will be five years old this summer. Since that time the site has had some minor changes:
- what started out as a fixed color scheme became a user-defineable color scheme and then became a programmtically shifting color scheme.
- I added boxes, initially to the right of the main posts but now on the left, to display some extra content.
To tell the truth, even the current design is just another iteration on the initial design of this site. The post boxes, the use of angle brackets here and there, and other aspects of the page are essentially the same as they were when this site was first created. The page used to be white with black text and the image at the far right of the page didn't always explode, but that's about it.
I'm thinking it's time to change.
This site has a distinctive look, which I think is a good thing, but I'm worried that it's beginning to be distinctive more for its longevity than anything else. I want to maintain the distinctive part of the look: I want people to be able to realize that it's -273 with just a glance at the page. But I want a fresh, clean look as well.
My main goal of the redesign will be to better utilize the full width of the screen. I want a full-width header and footer. I also want more readable text in the main posts. I think the width is about right (although it could be a bit wider), but the line spacing needs some work. I also want to rework the archives and put some search capabilities in place.
Most of this is stuff that could be done by tweaking the current design, but it feels like it's time to wipe the slate clean and start over from scratch.
If you have any suggestions for something new that you'd like to see, a request for something from the current design to keep, or anything else, just leave a comment.
Posted by on 22 May 2006 at 11:37 PM
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Use lots of pink. The blink tag is good, but do browsers even support that anymore? All fonts should be 16 point comic sans. Please change the cursor. And have a background song.
Actually, just go to myspace and you'll find lots of ideas.
Posted by Nathan on 23 May 2006 - 9:46 PM
Well, MySpace is one of the most popular sites on the internet. It's bigger than google. So I'll probbaly do that. I've always liked backgrounds that make it impossible to read the text on the site anyway.
Posted by david on 24 May 2006 - 9:24 AM