Article / 28th Oct 2006

Re-Re-Redesign

I've redesigned the ByteHoard website again; for those of you who've missed its last two years this is about the seventh design. This new one focuses on clean lines and readability, as well as saving a lot of bandwidth.

CSS is still a bit behind where it should be, although that's obviously not the specifications' fault (I'm looking at you, IE). However, I only had to make one change to my CSS to get IE to play nice (and it's not a hack, I just had to set only one of a bunch of nested elements to display:block), so there is that.

Apart from that it seems to have gone well. My usual basic txt CMS is driving it, with my new submenus which I first developed for the Aeracode main site thrown in too. With some RSS fetching optimisation (i.e. only do it on the news page) it's also a lot faster.

The logo also got an overhaul; I finally found the right font, NeoSans, and used that to make a much cleaner logo.

Overall, it went pretty well, I think (well, for only 4 hours of coding that is). Now back to ByteHoard proper.