realignment
Feb. 18th, 2007 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI've spent the past few days up to my elbows in CSS and PHP. Putting the polishing touches on features for using my gallery package as a web-comic back end, laying out and marking up a page template for the "Absinthe" comic, and doing a redesign of the website overall.
What I find interesting is that while I'm changing the front page almost entirely, and moving things around on most pages, I'm not really changing the layout of the gallery pages. I still like the way they look, three years after I laid them out. Sure, colors are changing, a few new elements are being added, it's looking fresh and clean and new - but I guess I just feel that three columns of five thumbnails hovering in the top-left quadrant of the page works. I can't think of anything that needs changing about the basic layout.
I can't think of anything else to take away from that part. I can only think of things to add.
I had a semi-rant here about boring web design where every page looks exactly the same because it's all poured through one template, with the same header dominating every page and getting in the way of reading the damn content, but it was kinda boring itself. In short: sure, dead splash pages are bad, so's complete uniformity. Not every page is the cover of a book; save the big chunk of branding for the front and build a second, quieter header template for the 'inside', CMS addicts.
What I find interesting is that while I'm changing the front page almost entirely, and moving things around on most pages, I'm not really changing the layout of the gallery pages. I still like the way they look, three years after I laid them out. Sure, colors are changing, a few new elements are being added, it's looking fresh and clean and new - but I guess I just feel that three columns of five thumbnails hovering in the top-left quadrant of the page works. I can't think of anything that needs changing about the basic layout.
I can't think of anything else to take away from that part. I can only think of things to add.
I had a semi-rant here about boring web design where every page looks exactly the same because it's all poured through one template, with the same header dominating every page and getting in the way of reading the damn content, but it was kinda boring itself. In short: sure, dead splash pages are bad, so's complete uniformity. Not every page is the cover of a book; save the big chunk of branding for the front and build a second, quieter header template for the 'inside', CMS addicts.
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Date: 2007-02-19 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-19 07:01 am (UTC)Simple is good.