Website refresh
Late yesterday afternoon, I was killing some time and decided to take a crack at refreshing the look of my main website. I was using a blue and yellow scheme and decided that the page needed to be updated. I wanted to make the page tighter and more consistent with the design that I'm using here at Vox.
This is the result:
I managed to spice up the banner a bit by including seven random photos from my Flickr account. This is something that I've always liked at O'Reilly's Radar. The left section of the page contains aggregated content from sites that I use regularly. The top-most section contains posts to this blog. The next section contains the past five links posted to del.icio.us, and the bottom section contains recently added books to my LibraryThing catalog. The image floating at the upper-right of the main section is the last photo that I posted to Flickr. The right side of the page is dedicated to shorter content, such as the new bio, latest Twitter, links, and contact information. Finally, the footer of the page contains the ever-dynamic Lovecraft quotes.
Since I post more content regularly to sites like Vox, Twitter, and del.icio.us, this page serves as a nice aggregation point for the stuff I'm doing on the web. In some respects, it's "The Daily Me". I don't really have many plans to add a lot of new pages to this site, though I'll be posting a CV and archived versions of my Lovecraft copyright blog posts from the old site.
Personally, I like the design quite a bit and I think that the page is an improvement over the old one. There are some tweaks that I can still make to help with making the page as readable as possible (such as altering the default link color) and I'll probably be making small changes throughout the weekend. I'm curious about what you think: is it an improvement or is the old site better?
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