Yet Another Redesign

Well I’m actually shocked it took me this long but it’s finally come… another redesign for this site. I’m going to do a couple things different with this redesign. First I’m not going to wait for a finished product to launch. This means that what you see now is very much a work in progress. Call it a beta if you want, but I’m not going to wait the weeks it will take to publish a finished design. In fact I hope that this site is never finished! It should be able to constantly evolve and iterate forward.

Here are some reasons for the redesign. First of all I needed a fresh start. My old site was based off of the Viewport Theme. Even though it was heavily modified it was still someone elses design at the core. I’m writing my new site from scratch, in HTML5 and SASS. This will give me a strong, flexible foundation to build from in the future.

I have some goals for this site. First it needs great typography. It needs to be clean and minimalistic. Finally the code has to be totally semantic. That means no extra div tags for style. Some secondary goals would be to have a strong presentation for post assets and make use of CSS transforms and transitions. jQuery and I are still best friends but I want to play around with some advanced CSS.

The overall feeling of the site needs to leave the user with the impression that I’m a true web professional who probably wears sandals to work. I’ll be updating this site mainly with blog posts and work from my portfolio. I’m going to ditch all of the sidebar crap that I used to have like tweets and delicious links. I’m going with the loose the clutter philosophy.

So stay tuned and bare with me as I clean this place up. I hope to make this place a real design blog someday and not just a place for randomness. Okay maybe some randomness.