New design

Saturday 25 November 2017This is nearly seven years old. Be careful.

I’ve just updated the design of this site. The goal was to make it responsive, so that it would work well on small screens, but I made other changes along the way. The body type is now serif rather than sans, and much larger. I made lots of other tweaks as I worked on pages.

Making a responsive design was fun: it meant working out mechanisms for the layout rather than just a static design.

Of course, it’s easy to get carried away. Take a look at what happens to my name in the header when the screen gets below 300 pixels: Ned Batchelder becomes nedbat to save space. This was accomplished with the help of a span with class “chelder”...

It took me a long time to make this design. I started it 15 months ago, but stopped work on it for more than a year. I picked it up again two weeks ago, and powered through the remaining work.

Behind the scenes, I changed only one thing: using Sass to generate the CSS. The rest is still as janky and difficult as always.

For comparison (and posterity), here is the design I just replaced. If anything seems amiss with the new design, just let me know.

Comments

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GrumpyMcGrumpface 1:53 AM on 27 Nov 2017
The Star in the upper left is the a 17,6 KB jpeg file, 640×640 pixels, 228 different colors, with jpeg artefacts … do you have access to the original version? You should re-export it as 8-bit png file … or even better, re-create it as SVG: higher quality, fully responsive and probably smaller :).
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@GrumpyMcGrumpface: true, I have not tried to optimize the images. That is on the TODO list. It's raytraced with a shadow, I don't think SVG would do it justice :)
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Yes, it indeed looks more sassy. :0D And the REST still being as Djangy and difficult as always is probably alright. :0)
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The bitcoin link in the footer is 404 at Coinbase.

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