Realignment

It’s only been thirteen days since I launched the new look site but I’ve already decided to start fiddling about with the template. Infact in my last post I stated

I suppose if you don’t look back over old code and think of new and better ways to change something then you’re not doing your job correctly.

and that’s exactly what has happened here. However, instead of going about creating an entirely new layout, I decided to take Simplebits approach of realignment. Why not, I liked alot of elements that had been created for this design, why should I throw all of that away.

The main reason that some modification has taken place was due to me trying to be too fancy! On my own personal sites, I’ve always adopted the same philosophy “keep it simple stupid”. This philosophy was probably why the last iteration of my site lasted for nearly four years. It’s something I was told when I was very young and it has always stuck with me.

When I was coding up the last effort I decided to try and step away from my usual way of thinking. Although the colour scheme was simple, I tried to, ultimately, be too fancy when designing page layouts. My fascination with trying to manipulate variations of multiple column layouts for each page, on the 960 grid system took over and my site probably suffered from that. A different layout for every page just didn’t work, at least not the way I had went about it. Although the main content area was always located on the left hand side I believe that the end result could have affected the way that users went about using the site.

If you are a returning user to the site you will have noticed the change, the menu is still the same, the typeface is still the same, infact the majority of the elements within the template are still the same. The major element which has changed is the page layout, this time around I have decided to incorporate a three column layout on every page barring the portfolio, which as you will have guessed has stayed the same. Don’t worry, the site is still coded in html5.

I think I’ll be much happier with this layout, as I hope you will be too. Due to these new implemented changes I’ve got a few things still to sort out but I don’t envisage there being many problems with this change over.

On a side note, my next HTML5 post which was promised in the comments section from the previous blog post is still coming but has obviously been put back a little due to the template modifications which will have to be discussed. So pop back over next week if you’re interested in seeing how the pages have been coded.