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This redesign is done, mostly

Posted on November 16.

I'd like to spend more time on this redesign, but I have a million other things to work on. I was expecting to do this for a while, and I finally couldn't wait any longer. The old design was just getting on my nerves.

So I have this new design. It's a cross between this photoshop tutorial and The New Yorker. The artwork of Domo-kun was made by my fiancee's sister, who will get a link as soon as I can remember where her deviant account. The header in the title is Museo Sans 500 by Jos Buivenga, and it just looks good. Under the hood I have Blueprint, and the least bit of HTML & CSS that I've ever done to get an entire design complete. Plus, I've used a bit of CSS 3 rather than trying to do everything the hard way, and if anything doesn't look right in X or Y browser, I just don't care. It's good enough. I have to move on.

P.S. I made a nice clean print design too. Maybe I'll do a mobile design down the road.

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9 Comments

  1. michelle on November 17, 2008

    Awesome redesign. It looks great!

  2. Christian Montoya on November 17, 2008

    Thanks! I'm going to try to get it to at least sit right in IE 6… I'm getting that terrible 3px float bug.

  3. Elliott Back on November 20, 2008

    I can't click on the header to go home! Ahhhhh!

  4. Christian Montoya on November 20, 2008

    Ha, I was wondering if that would bother people. There's nothing to click on, just a background image. If it really makes things painful, I can put a fake link over it…

  5. Terry on November 21, 2008

    Yea.. my deviant art website is lacking of material. :/ Not good to show off at the moment. I wish I had a scanner…

  6. Christian Montoya on November 21, 2008

    You can bring artwork with you when you visit, I have a scanner. OR you can find one at that fancy shmancy art college you study at. I'm sure they have lots.

  7. Terry on November 22, 2008

    Oh! btw, heres my link http://l33tst3r.deviantart.com/

  8. Tyler Diaz on December 10, 2008

    Creative new layout there, love the way you keep principles applied and yet keep it with a unique look. :)

  9. Trula on December 11, 2008

    I like it, it really pops

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