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March 6, 2007

Sneak peek.

Sneak Peek 2.0

Nearly a year after I intended to redesign my personal site for Spring 2006 CSS Reboot, I’ve started up again. What happened last time? Life, work, etc.

What you see above (and here) is the latest incarnation of the design. For comparison purposes, here’s an early iteration of last year’s model. My standard high contrast avatar is now the site’s ‘logo’. Consistent branding being a concept hammered into my brain on a daily basis. The logo may or may not harbour an easter egg at some point (you’ll just have to wait and see). A slightly tracked Gill Sans Bold now pops as the headline face (at least for Mac users) and Lucida Sans remains for body copy and typographic incidentals. What the Windows user will see has yet to be decided, but it will probably be a heavier weight of Arial or some such utility-grade sans serif.

The predominant use of whitespace in the previous design has been replaced by darker framing elements. A simple “sheet of white paper on a surface” look.

So what makes me think that I can actually launch this design before the next CSS Reboot? This one was built directly in code, not Photoshop. Barring any IE6/7 snafu-shas during tweaking, it’ll happen.

Comments? Please.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

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14 comments on “Sneak peek.”

  1. Posted by Arne Arne on Wednesday, April 4th, 2007.

    The old design has more character and somehow some “house” colors like the orange. Perhaps you can tweak the current style and make things slightly larger. Otherwise all is fine and clean IMO.

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  2. Posted by Grant Hutchinson Grant Hutchinson on Thursday, April 19th, 2007.

    I may end up tweaking the colour palette to reflect the look of the current site a bit more, as the main reasons for this redesign were to get freshen things up and to restructure the atrocious template code. One thing I have been thinking about is offering ‘skin’ options, so you could pick which colour scheme you prefer. Now, to get this damn thing launched.

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  3. Posted by Ollie Ollie on Wednesday, July 18th, 2007.

    Wow, it’s so much better.

    Don’t rush now — spend six months refining the background gradation endpoints.

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  4. Posted by Grant Hutchinson Grant Hutchinson on Wednesday, July 18th, 2007.

    At the rate I’m going, it may take another six months to get this version launched anyway.

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