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Redesigned website goes live
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 7:25 am
Hello - welcome to my website.
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Thanks for visiting and I hope you find my site useful.
It’s been a busy few evenings as I’ve been working hard to get my new website design live.
You can now see it in all its glory at www.simonwakeman.com.
I wanted to clean up the old design and increase the use of colour. I hope you like it. There are still a few minor display gremlins, but everything should be working as normal.
I’d like to say thanks very much to Andy Wake at Don’t Panic Projects for his help with developing the design and colour scheme - I’m a pretty poor designer so Andy has to take a lot of the credit for how the site now looks.
If you spot anything untoward please do leave me a comment or drop me a line.
Normal blog service will now be resumed!
Tags: andy+wake, Blogging, dont+panic, dont+panic+projects, event+management, News, Web development, websites, Wordpress, wordpress+2.1
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 8:41 am
Love it! Very slick indeed. Is it built entirely on WordPress? Homepage and all?
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 8:50 am
Thanks Stephen - it’s all running using Wordress, although the homepage uses a plug-in to display a non-blog page instead of the usual blog homepage.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 9:36 am
Which plug in is it? Do you mind adding the link?
Learning WordPress is on my ever growing list of things to do.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 9:45 am
The plug-in’s called Filosofo Home Page Control (http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/home-page-control), although the site seems to be down at the moment.
I have a feeling I saw somewhere that WP2.1 can do what the plug-in does anyway, but as I upgraded from an older version I kept the plug-in and didn’t use the inbuilt functionality.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Looks good - how often do you think a blog needs a fresh new look? Have you noticed any design trends? Or are updates mainly technology driven?
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Lovin it! Very understated - the best way. You’re right too (as far as I know) about the upgraded wordpress giving the option of a non-blog page.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Simon - thanks for that - glad you like
Heather - a good question. The design is pretty much independent of the technology. My desire to redesign was because I felt the old design was looking tired and too busy - as I’d added more features over time. There are some design trends around “Web 2.0″ - a good article I found when researching is here: http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Thanks - I’ve just created a private blog for the press fleet administrators in the motor industry PR world and went for a plain, clean look too.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Hey - good job. Looks very smart indeed. White space is the new blog rock’n'roll.
You’re quite right about WP 2.1 supporting landing pages natively. I’m using that feature for the site I’m making for our summer conference.
Friday, February 23rd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
I was wondering why the posts had slowed from their regular pace. All is now clear! Nice work Simon.
Saturday, February 24th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Ian - thanks for that - glad the work was worth it
Nick - thanks too - normal service hopefully resumed next week; arrival of baby and TalkTalk broadband connection problems permitting!
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Very nice site! Good work.