This deck of cards was in the back of my office closet.
Tag: design
“Simplicity is not the Absence of Clutter”
A good watch before the Apple event on Tuesday. Everything out there indicates something special will be released.
Clock Font
I’m not a designer, but even I can notice the font used for the clock looks out of place.
How To Make An about.me Style Home Page
I really like the “personal splash page” design you can create with about.me, but I want to control my URLs. I figured I could do the same thing on my web site with a little CSS. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like for historical purposes.
Better Use Of Sidebars
I really wanted a way to separate different parts of the web site, so by going with two sidebars on the new design, I have a lot of extra spots. The right sidebar always shows links to my other web sites and advertisements. The left sidebar is dynamic and changes depending on what you are viewing in the main content area.
Even though the left sidebar is dynamic, there are a couple of parts that will always show. The little About section, the Search box, and Feeds are always shown. I think these parts are very useful so I decided to show them all of the time.
When viewing the home page, the left sidebar will show the last 15 Quickie posts. This helps to keep the site fresh and changing with new content. When visiting a single post’s page, the left sidebar displays details about the post, has a link to the comment section, Share This, tags for the post, and links to related posts. By pushing all of these pieces off to the side, it keeps them accessible but also gets them out of the way so the content can have its space.
If you visit any other page besides the home page or a single post page, the left sidebar will show links to the 10 most recent posts, recent comments, categories, and a link to the tags page. I decided that if you are viewing any of these other types of pages, you aren’t looking at anything really specific, so I wanted to display links to a wide range of things to get you around the web site.
I still have some other ideas for things to do with the sidebar, but I think the changes I’ve made so far help to make the site more usable, clean, and fresh.
Updated Card Tricks Site
The Card Tricks site has gone through quite a few updates in the past two days. Go check it out!
New 2 Hole Cards Design
2 Hole Cards is the 3rd site in a week I’ve given a new design.
Primary Rough Redesign
New design up over at Primary Rough.
New Primary Rough Design
If you are reading this at primaryrough.com you’re looking at a new design. I thought I’d freshen up the place with a new theme. The base design is a free WordPress theme from Templatextreme. I fixed a few things up and made a few modifications otherwise it looks the same as the theme you can download from their site. Hopefully in the future I will use my own personal custom photos.
What do you think of the new look?
The New MtDewVirus
Here it is. The new and hopefully improved mtdewvirus.com.
I started on this design over a year ago and hadn’t touched it in over a year until Friday night. I put a lot of hours into it over the weekend and a few more tonight fixing errors after updating the live site. Setting up a test environment locally is great, but it’s hard to test for everything.
As of right now, most things should be working. If something looks out of place or funky, leave a comment on this post.
I plan to write up some posts on how I did a few things around the site and to point out some things. If you’d like to know how I implemented a particular feature, ask in the comments.
What do you think of the new layout and design?
Nick Momrik 