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SXSW, Server Issues and Redesign

Posted on 12th March 2009 — I wanted to post a short note to let those of you who subscribe to the jQuery for Designers feed that I’ve not forgotten my pledge to get new videos out each week, and to give you a bit of a general update on redesign and server problems recently.

SXSW & Holiday

I’ve been away for the last week (snowboarding - yay!) and I’m headed to SXSW for the first time tomorrow so the next screencast will is due out around the 24th March.

I’m also away in May, so they’ll be a quiet period that month, but otherwise I’m aiming to keep to the regular 3-4 posts a month. So keep subscribed for the latest.

Sorry it’s been a bit quiet for this month, but I do have the next set of screencasts lined up for when I’m back.

Server Issues

If you’re a regular visitor of this site, then you’ll know my server suffers from the blues fairly regularly each week.

I’m doing my best to get this back in shape, and an old friend has lifted the bonnet of the server and is tinkering away. There’s been a couple of short term fixes, but there’s a few config changes I hope will completely kill the server issues you may have been seeing lately.

Redesign

Finally, quietly in the background, I’ve been creating the new WordPress them that Chris Mahon has been designed for me. It’s very close to complete, and if everything goes to plan, the new design should be in full use in April.

In addition, I’m going to be adding the ability to edit comments, as one common issue I see is code being posted, but then the characters aren’t escaped properly - so hopefully this will make posting comments easier.

As a little preview - though unfinished (there’s a few bits here and there that need sorting) - here’s the old site compared with the new site:

Homepage

Old Homepage

New Homepage

Article Page

Old Article Page

New Article Page

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Comments

  1. BinaryKitten On 12th March 2009 at 00:03

    Very Nice for the preview.. :D can’t wait to see it live ..

  2. Jyoseph On 12th March 2009 at 00:03

    New design looks wicked, hope to see you at sxsw!

  3. picardo On 12th March 2009 at 04:03

    Really dramatic design. Love it.

  4. Peter On 12th March 2009 at 11:03

    Hi Remy,

    the new design looks really nice! Keep the good work going!

    Greetings from Germany, Peter

  5. Daniel Daxl On 12th March 2009 at 12:03

    very nice theme preview. I agree with Jyoseph, the new design looks really wicked!

    Do you build the theme from scratch?

  6. Jeffrey Jose On 12th March 2009 at 20:03

    Wow !. The sneak peek images look awesome. Waiting for the new design.

    /j

  7. Mark On 13th March 2009 at 12:03

    Like the design! Did you add any jQuery functionality to the new site?

  8. Best air miles credit cards On 14th March 2009 at 11:03

    Nice, keep posting such stuff in the future as well. We will be looking at you. :) Thanks

  9. Tom On 14th March 2009 at 15:03

    It is a really big change!

    Congrats, I will love the new design.

  10. Greg Johnson On 14th March 2009 at 19:03

    My opinion? It’s a nice trendy design, but it doesn’t fit this site in the slightest. A good design to take inspiration from for this site would be something like the envato network (psdtuts.com, nettuts.com, etc.).

    The above mockups would be a great wordpress theme, but it doesn’t lend itself well to this sites premise.

    P.S. You need the subscribe to comments plugin

  11. Yoosuf On 20th March 2009 at 06:03

    new design is cool continue with taht, and V for u

  12. Martin Adelstein On 20th March 2009 at 08:03

    Hello. I am an avid reader of this blog and a jquery-junkie as far as my skills allow for it. Well. I just can second Greg Johnson. While the new design looks great, it is in no way better than the present layout which works really well. It looks great as a general theme design, but less is more in this context perhaps. while the general interface layout seems to be rock solid, less decorative elements would do in my opinion.

    Nevertheless, don’t take it personal. I love the content on this stuff, and it helped me a great lot. We just want to keep you from designing and selfishly to more publicating cool widget stuff, we can implement in our websites. :) Keep up the great work. Martin

  13. Diego On 28th April 2009 at 14:04

    Nice redesign, :D i love the top image carousel

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