I’ve been making steady progress on the redesign of the site. I’m really starting to feel like it’s a cohesive unit now. I have one problem that needs to be addressed, which is formalizing the code. Going through and making sure naming structures are consistent, optimizing somethings so it loads faster, and formatting so it’s easier to read. It will be a fair amount of work because I basically put the site together without a formal plan. It came together piece-by-piece, one part influencing the other. It probably would have been quicker if I had laid it out in Photoshop before hand, but I had tried a number of times and nothing really came of it.

The design does not seem to be lacking because of it, though.

One thing that I’m really happy about is the Footer. It shows my most recent blog posts, tweets, music I’ve listened to, and news I’ve been interested in. If you go to the testing page you’ll also see a search bar. This will be good to search through all of the content of the site. It functions, but it isn’t very pretty right now.

I’ve learned some important things while putting together this iteration of this webpage. Most importantly, though, is I’m pretty confident at using a grid system to design a page and can’t imagine going back to designing with out it. Part of the changes in naming structure will involve being able to interchange sections of content very easily from page to page.

In other news, it would probably be good for me to pick up some non-computer based habits.

-Jason