Well, I’ve finished the biggest part of the transition from the old design to the new one. All that’s left now is to improve over the things left from the old design.
- Put some custom bullets on the links on the left
- Put the ForeverGeek Archive in an iframe (so the code will be transitional once again)
- Improve the Comments aspect (I promise it will be light)
- Other meaningless little things that I think I could improve
What did I learn with this redesign? Well, I learned that it’s not that hard to make something look the same on all browsers as long as you realize that each one has different default values for tags.
For example, Internet Explorer besides having a padding on the left of each “ul” it also has a margin, something that Opera and Firefox don’t. It isn’t hard to make code transitional, it isn’t hard at all actually. I don’t really mind the restrictions a lot, I occasionally forget to put an “alt” on an image or two but that’s it really. What is really hard is trying to adapt other person’s code to make it transitional. All you need to remember is to leave all the styling and alignment for the CSS file and that’s 80% of the work done already.
I also learned that I’m definitely not the best designer in the world, but I’m also not the worst. When I finished the index I went to other sites and compared it to theirs. Saw which mistakes their designs had and which ones mine had and after reducing mine to a minimum I have to say I’m very pleased with the result.
During the construction of this site, I asked some friends for opinions and comments and I’d like to take the opportunity now to thank all of them:
- David Peralty
- Philip Hawkins
- André Rodrigues
- Ana Neto
- and everyone else I forgot
Thank you all sincerely. After all the work in improving the design I hope I can also improve the quality of the content to make it worthwhile.
[tags]web design, design, redesign[/tags]