New Design

Unless you’re reading this with a feed reader, or are a first time visitor, you’ve probably noticed that I changed the site design (again). This is the third major design since I launched GeoffHolden.com back in October 2004; three designs in two and a half years isn’t too bad.

I’m pretty happy with this one (for now anyways). It has several new features that the old design didn’t have:

• It actually expands to use the whole browser width.
• It adds the categories/tags features that I didn’t use/build into my theme before.
• It’s much easier to add a new header image with this design (drop an unprocessed photo into a directory and the server takes care of the rest the first time it’s loaded).
• The embedded gallery theme is done much more cleanly this time. (Now that I have a proper understanding of how they work, as opposed to the hack-job I did last time)
• The photo gallery now uses JavaScript and does the paging on the client-side. So the entries per page is based on window width, and changing pages doesn’t require a reload.

5 Responses to “New Design”

1. Lori

   May 30, 2006 at 4:25 am

   And… you have a funky self-logo!
2. Lori

   May 30, 2006 at 4:26 am

   So, you should change your Firefox icony-thingy to the new one.
3. Geoff

   May 30, 2006 at 8:07 am

   So, you should change your Firefox icony-thingy to the new one.

   It’s coming. The design changeover still isn’t 100% complete, but I had to get it up so that I got some feedback on it. (Notice the Cell phone page is gone… I still have to re-make that one, and the ‘About Me’ is currently empty, etc.)
4. Naeim

   June 8, 2006 at 6:11 pm

   Very nice. I really like your logo.
5. Angus

   June 8, 2006 at 7:41 pm

   3 in 2.5? lightweight