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Candy: rebooted

I’ve finally got­ten round to tweak­ing this site into shape. I’d already ditched the ver­tical bars, but the align­ment still wasn’t right and the code was get­ting mud­dier and mur­kier. Seeing as how the spring 2006 CSS Reboot was just around the corner, I had a dead­line: 1st of May 2006.

Notable changes are the gen­eral shifts in align­ment (not just for improved flow, but also to give me more room for in-line images), the back­ground and nav­ig­a­tion bar col­our shift (both are now slightly lighter) and boxes around the com­ments (just like noscope — I plead guilty!). I’ll have to redesign the com­ments once I enable gravatars too (instead of just favicons), but this will have to do for now.

screen shot of Candy 2

New addi­tions are Cameron Moll’s icon to my inspir­a­tions list (not that he’s a recent find, but up till now I didn’t have a good icon to work from), “latest com­ments” in the side­bar and a (slightly dif­fer­ent one from on the main page) side­bar for the single-post pages (just click a title to get to them).

Funnily enough, the thing I’m most proud of is mov­ing the previous/next page nav­ig­a­tion on single-post pages to the side­bar. It’s a very little change, but I really feel they work a lot bet­ter there.

What do you think? (Oh and don’t for­get to vote for me on the CSS Reboot site!)

On: Design, Web • 1st May of 2006 • Comments are closed.

6 Responses to “Candy: rebooted”

  1. Dan says:
    1 May 2006 at 23:05

    I like! There’s just some­thing about the site that makes it really smooth to read, which is only a good thing. If there is one thing, (and I’m nit­pick­ing ;), the feed icon looks a bit gar­ish next to it’s back­ground. Perhaps a subtler colour?

  2. Marko Mihelcic says:
    2 May 2006 at 14:05

    I just voted , It’s worth a 4/5 star ;)

  3. Prabhath Sirisena says:
    3 May 2006 at 12:05

    As I said earlier, your site was a source of inspir­a­tion to me when I was rebooting.

    Great to see the realign­ment retain­ing the beauty of the pre­vi­ous version :-)

  4. James (AkaXakA) says:
    4 May 2006 at 21:05

    Thanks guys!

    And Dan, well spot­ted — might take a bit to get round to fix­ing a new one I’m happy with though…

  5. Jon-Michael says:
    6 May 2006 at 09:05

    Wow! Your nav menu looks so much nicer now, plus the spa­cing is great. I think this back­ground color makes text more read­able – I used a sim­ilar back­ground for a client’s site. Serif fonts are amaz­ing with it!

    Your reboot should have a _much_ higher score, but it seems gnats keep vot­ing 1’s for every­one. How can there not be a 4 or 5 yet? Seriously, what’s wrong with these voters?

  6. James (AkaXakA) says:
    7 May 2006 at 23:05

    Thank you Jon-Michael!

    And yes, the CSS Reboot vot­ing sys­tem is rather flawed…