It’s been just one year since this blog was launched and today I’m happy to present the version 2.0
This version went through some revisions and simplifications. It should have been ready some weeks ago, but when the design was at 90% I decided to restart almost from scratch.
The idea was a pretty flexible design, a design with pages and articles that could be a little bit customized, just enough to not become boring.
Almost every page, while sharing the same layout, keeps its own identity.
Minimal sidebar
The toughtful element in the redesign was the sidebar. In some intermediary steps it contained more elements but I found it could distract from the content and at a point I thought to remove it.
In the end I opted for a minimal sidebar and I shifted to the footer every content not directly related to the current page.
The “selfish” footer
The footer gets together a brief summary about me and my activities to avoid spreading these information across the site. Except for the about page of course.
Styling the 404 page
I enjoyed so much working on the 404 page, and after a different(and textured) approach, I decided for the foreground version.
The default post layout
In the future It could happen that I’ll write articles with a non illustrated title, I also want to keep a retro compatibility with previous entries. So this is the solution for the default post layout and the relative images
So…
Care to share your thoughts about this design? Have your say!
Credits : Kyle Steed for the Clumsy font
Vorrei lasciarti un commento in inglese ma evito di farti fare brutte figure…non è un commento di parte, sai che a costo di mandarti in crisi ti dico sempre quello che penso, ma rasenta davvero la perfezione. Originale, curato nei minimissimi dettagli, facilmente navigabile, armonico…sei avanti, devi accettarlo :-)
Excellent job on the redesign Michela. It’s clean and easy to read, well done indeed. Bravo!