Before I get to my site redesign, I’d like to congratulate Dave Shea from Mezzoblue on the new site design, my redesign simply fades in comparison. I’m one of the admirers of Dave’s work, and as usual, the site is clean, readable, and oh yeah, finally liquid!.
I also noticed that a lot of people are reworking their sites, Douglas Bowman from Stopdesign decided to drop the old design and Start over, which is mostly good, sometimes designers need a break from seeing the same design over and over again.
As for me, I’ve created a whole new design, made it liquid, since most of it’s content will be long. It’s done mainly for two reasons, first of all it seemed to resemble Andy Budd’s website to large extent, although by the time my site was done I didn’t even know of Andy’s site, hopefully it’s fixed now, since I designed everything from scratch, even those cute little icons, which, by the way, I’m giving away for anybody who’d like to use them.
The second reason is that I wasn’t very content with my previous site structure, the backend was a mess, the RSS feeds were a mess, and I was using an older MoveableType version. No, this one isn’t powered by MT 3.0, I’m using 2.611 until I’m done with my own, home-brewed blog.
This should be my second redesign, but it’s still not exactly what I’m looking for, hopefully I’ll be able to have a new design as soon as I’m done with my new blogging software.