Les James | Design & Stuff » usability http://lesjames.com Les James is a web designer and beer fan. CSS and brown ales make him happy. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:09:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Breaking Away From Viewport http://lesjames.com/184/breaking-away-from-viewport/ http://lesjames.com/184/breaking-away-from-viewport/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:21:08 +0000 Les http://lesjames.com/?p=184 This site’s design is reaching a crossroads. I am starting to remove major elements of the Viewport theme in a move to increase the site’s usability and layout aesthetics. This move is being done with special category templates for the web and interactive sections of my portfolio. I have removed the sliding panels and opted to have projects tile themselves down the page. In addition each category archive now pulls in special page content that serves as a description. A note about this description, I’m using CSS3 columns for the first time. Safari and Firefox users will now see eye friendly columns instead of a super wide block of text. The key now is to actually fill these portfolio sections with projects.

This brings me a decision on what to do with the blog category and the homepage. For now I’m going to to keep the sliding panels but I think it can be done better. I’m thinking that on the homepage I want to try and figure out a way to include only the latest blog post and then start listing out my favorite portfolio projects. I am also going to add a panel at the end that will list out my most recent blog and twitter posts. As for the blog archive I’m going to have to think of a new presentation but I suppose what’s in place now will suffice. Time to start hacking the home page!

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