Redesign/ Relaunch
Posted: Sat 14 February, 2009 Filed under: D4D™, Redesign 9 Comments »As any observant person will have spotted, the design here at D4D™ has finally been updated.
At the same time, as per posts earlier this week, I’ve also upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1, migrated the database up to the proper level(which was a pig to do right) and moved hosts.
I’m now using a US-based hosting company, so the pages may take slightly longer to load (time will tell on that score) but it means I no longer have to worry about bandwidth, storage etc.
The changes appear to have been pretty smooth so far – the random titles are in place, the big black paragraph at the top of the page will change for certain days, (today being the first) and I feel that the colour-scheme is now decent enough that I don’t need to worry about the colour-scheme widget I wrote way back in the day.
I’ve still got to amend some other bits (the word count function, for example) and fix/resurrect a lot of the links on the blogroll, but yeah, the basics are there and I’m really quite pleased with the results.
Oooo I like. Haven’t noticed any loading difference. Am now testing out your comments for you 😉
Looking good on my iPhone (yeah, yeah)
Hmm and on my PC (using Firefox).
That big black box at the top is … well a little too big for the text and (personally) I’d drop the background colour down a shade or 5, make it a dark grey so it’s not quite as jarring on the eye?
Also the D4D.. could be bigger? It’s like an afterthought up there, not enough contrast I think. My eye is drawn to the big black box, not the name of the website which I have to hunt for.
I DO really like it over the previous design though, it’s like you realised it was 2009! 😉
I agree, re the black box. I need to look at it a bit and see what I’m going to do.
Fixed the D4D bit, by the way – that’s sorted.
And yeah, I knew it was ’09 but well, it just took time to get round to it. Like the parable of the builder and his never-completed extension…
I Like it 🙂
Long time lurker/reader, first time commenter. If it’s not too cheeky to ask, which host did you move to? I’m currently looking around for a new host myself and each time I think I find a decent looking one I find something bad about the company/service.
Not too cheeky at all.
I went from being with 34sp.com in the UK to Dreamhost in the US.
34sp come heavily recommended still – I had very very few problems with them at all – but I use Dreamhost for a few other sites as well- and their prices are ridiculously low- so it made sense to use them.
Many thanks.
It’s changed again! I still like it 🙂