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Redesigning, Part 1: Out With the Old

I’m starting to redesign this site today, live and unscripted. Things might will break. Stay tuned to this weblog entry for the new IA, design and other redesign thoughts.

13 May: “Watch me unravel, I’ll soon be naked.” Almost everything in /joshua will eventually move to root. Site will be rebranded as unraveled.com.

Tenative new IA:

Your comments are welcome. Next: strip out all CSS and images, remove /joshua from URLs, update headings. Done.

14 May: I’m going to have a bunch of redirects, and I’d rather do it through HTTP than HTML or JavaScript. If anyone knows anything about creating redirects using URL rewriting with htaccess, I’ve love to know. I think I need a regular expression that I can place in an htaccess file that will send people who go here:
http://unraveled.com/joshua/archives/2003/05/css_tabs.shtml

to here:
http://unraveled.com/archives/2003/05/css_tabs.shtml

Is this possible or am I just dreaming? Any suggestions on this would be fabulous.

14 May:: Sorry about the broken archives. It will be fixed ASAP. That is, tomorrow morning. Done.

15 May:: From now on <h1> tags will be used for page titles only as the W3C recommends, not the site title or domain name as others have done. Also, headings will always be used in decending order.

From now on presentational images will be specified in the CSS only, not in the HTML as I’ve done in the past. Next time I redesign, I only want to modify one external CSS file, not every single template - like I’m doing now.

Nate linked me from Web Graphics. Welcome, Web Graphics readers! (Thanks Nate!)

The “Joshua” section is gone. Since that section contained mostly professional related things like my résumé and portfolio, all that will eventually be moved to its own domain. The domain will be announced when I decide what name I want and if it’s available.

After lunch: Create place holder pages for new sections. Update navigation, search form and search results. Done.

Next: Go see Matrix Reloaded. Coming next week: Redesigning, Part 2: In With the New.

18 May:: Just a few more notes about the new markup: I added a body id of unravleled-com to all pages so that visitors can create unraveled.com-specific overrides in their user stylesheets.

The navigation list markup is modified so that each list item has its own id. Now the navigation markup remains unchanged across the site, which is good. I also added a body class of the section title to all pages. If I chose, I can now style each section differently based on the body class, which is cool.

The mobile link is removed from the navigation. I decided it wasn’t important enough to take up a line of the navigation. It will be added later when I decide what I want to do with it. The mobile version is still available.

Comments

  1. Hey Josh,

    I’ve got PhotoPal almost 1.0. So wait like ONE day (I swear not even that long), and you can get your hands on PhotoPal 1.0 for your photo gallery, that is last I heard you were going to use it. :-)

    Best,
    Noel

    Noel D. Jackson on 13 May 03

  2. Thanks Noel. I’m still thinking about my photo gallery options, and I may wait to see what photo gallery features Movable Type has in the upcoming release. I do like the PhotoPal interface though. I’ll definitely keep it in mind.

    Joshua on 13 May 03

  3. Can’t wait to see it Joshua.
    -Michael

    Michael on 14 May 03

  4. why not use [del] and [ins] instead of a span with text-dec: line; ? ;-)

    foo on 15 May 03

  5. Thanks, foo. I forgot about those useful tags.

    Joshua on 15 May 03

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