jmoiron.net

After some false starts, I've finally got a new design to a point where I think it's probably fit for the public. I've been very, very busy on a bunch of projects recently, but have a few technical blog posts and a python library release hopefully coming up soon.

Trudging through this design has shown me that designing just isn't what I'm all about; having a discerning eye but no actual skills or background really hampers progress. There isn't an element on this page that I haven't polished to death or tried 5-10 permutations of; I'm not sure if that makes me "detail-oriented", "obsessive-compulsive", or "bad at design", but my bet is on some mixture of all three.

The main weakness of my first few attempts was my desire to not change the page source; to have my design fit in with the other two versions. In the end, I've decided to abandon that requirement (even though the structure is still very close to the original), mostly because I wanted to be able to incorporate some new things that are not in the old designs (gravatars, social-media, etc).