New Look Is Temporary
Edit: Extremely temporary. Already taken down and work is beginning on a new version. I’ll keep this version for now as it seems to work.
Well, I kind of finished the new design. I sort of gave up and rushed it out the door there at the end, just to see if my mind changes once I see it live. It hasn’t. I’m still not really a fan, but I’ll leave it up for a week or so just to make sure.
As of right now it works, but barely. My Ma.Gnolia links aren’t working properly, the year doesn’t show up properly in the date box, the comments aren’t styled, the header doesn’t have any links, the footer is nowhere near where I wanted it to be, and there’s no real archive. Other than that though, it’s functional.
I’d have to say that my biggest dissapointment is that it turned out incredibly similar to my Photoshop mockup. So, it’s not so much the site that I don’t like, it’s the overall design. Which is odd because I did like it in Photoshop. There’s a very good possibility that I’m just not a very good designer. In fact, I’d have to say that’s definitely my issue. I tried to design a site that had all sorts of design elements that I simply don’t understand, or can’t properly convey.
There is a bright side to this redesign failure though, and that’s that I learned a few more things about working with Wordpress. I had to modify some of the functions that Wordpress uses to get some of the desired results. They were incredibly minor, but it just goes to show how useful a working knowledge of PHP is when working with this beast.
Oh well. I guess it’s back to the drawing board. I think I’ll stick with something incredibly minimalist next time. Maybe that won’t require as much “talent.”
