Content tagged: redesign

Redesign: Habari and HTML5

What seems like a long time ago now, I discovered an open source project called Habari. Here was this relatively small group of people, a few of whom I was already paying attention to1, building a new blogging platform. For whatever reason, it caught my attention, and I'm very glad it did. I spent hour upon hour avoiding work and learning about Habari. The more I dug into the source the more it opened my eyes to what elegant PHP looked like. The MVC pattern and some of the class patterns used in the Habari codebase are beautiful things. More ... more

You might have noticed a change.

Yep, I've applied another mask to the increasingly pocked face of sw'as. I had been preparing for full on facelift, but I've since decided on a more holistic approach is what's required. This little corner of the 'net will soon be joining the growing number of corners powered by Habari. Hence I've decided not to bother going nuts with a redisign and writing a new theme for WordPress which I'll just have to convert. It might take a bit longer, but it'll be worth it.

Ideas for the redesign

Ok, so the redesign. The site looks different but is it any good? Well I know it wasn't up until Friday if you were viewing it in IE. Man it looked terrible (and it's still not perfect). There were some other goals for the redesign as well most of which I think I've met. The IE Thing Please IE users. Do yourself a favour and get a more standards compliant browser. If you're using IE you will be getting this ugly block above the posts telling you you should switch to Firefox (my preferred) or Opera. The really neat thing ... more

Should the bird go?

I think the redesign is coming along reasonably well but it will take a break for about a week and sit just like it sits now. I'm not sure if the bird will stay or go. I like the image but can't find a way to work it in with the site well. There is lot's of tweaking of the CSS yet to come and still some significant layout changes. Also I've finally started to put together an 'about' section which needs a fair bit of work. On a side note, Laura has some reasonably exciting news which I'm not ... more

A redesign

I've been hinting to an imminent site redesign for months now but it seems like it might never happen. I've only managed to put together a few seeds of ideas and nothing more. One of the major problems is that I just don't have time to dedicate to it right now. But I'm impatient, I really wanted a new design for Spring 1, as a result I'm just going to start changing stuff and turn it into a slow evolution rather than a distinct redesign. I've finally decided to embrace this whole folksonomy/tagging thing after setting up a del.icio.us account ... more