Ooer, it would appear that the site has changed from the spaced out regions of some far flung nebulae, to a more sedate blindingly blue colour that’s simpler than the grey matter between this fella’s ears.
I think it’s a good new direction, I took quite a large deal of inspiration from the simplicity of a friend’s site: http://blog.artlukm.com/ and it’s always been an area I struggle with. Particularly when designing a website for myself, I am not sure what it is but it’s always easier to do it for someone else.
Another thing I was keen on was some fancy javascript tit-bits I’d seen elsewhere. Particularly for the movable sidebar boxes which I feel give a little bit of user interaction, the calendar style date also gives it a bit of flair while sticking to K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) as it doesn’t use any images, just pure CSS/ XHTML.
Finally, a solution I thought was neat was the drop down panel for the social links. It’s always difficult to keep the amount of sub-information around the post as little as possible while retaining the same level of functionality. I am a big fan of icons in this scenario but sticking loads of icons everywhere wouldn’t have suited this style at all.
So that’s pretty much it, all thats left is the image uploading website, a few bits and pieces for Playstuff and as per the norm a mountain of homework stacked neatly* to my right.
* all over the floor
