Woop, new site design. How excit­ing. The only rea­son why I’m writ­ing this is so that I can test the said design to the fullest extent. I might as well elab­o­rate on some things in the process. As you may know, this is based upon the won­der­ful Word­Press appli­ca­tion and a heav­ily mod­i­fied P2 theme. I was reluc­tant to move over to Word­Press, but I’m now way over that and am itch­ing to make some of my own plu­g­ins and other exten­sions like that.

Before I start, I just want to share the songs that fueled me while doing the bulk of the work on the rework last night. You know, for fun. I was kind of in the mood for some ener­getic, synth-poppy music.

In v13 I removed every­thing that reminded me of the ter­ri­ble colour scheme in v12, opt­ing for a cleaner look with some cyan and gray mixed about. You’ll see a few sub­tle instances of radial gra­di­ents still, but it’s not really notable. As of now the header sec­tion is a bit too bloated for my taste so I may end up chop­ping that down eventually.

The con­tent pages (Port­fo­lio, Media) haven’t changed much. Yes, they’re still empty, and will prob­a­bly remain that way for a while until I can find the patience to put them together. The con­tact page, how­ever, has been tweaked a bit from the last ver­sion to make for a bet­ter expe­ri­ence with the AJAX inter­face. I also fin­ished up the About page for now, but plan to add a few more things to it once every­thing else is done.

A lot has been added to the footer to de-clutter the side­bar. There are the typ­i­cal social icons like before, but now my tweets and Flicker pic­tures are also being snagged from the respec­tive ser­vices and are now liv­ing in the footer as well.

Also worth not­ing is the addi­tion of the Labs. This was up for a while but I only showed it to a few peo­ple. Hope­fully it’ll serve as a nice hub for my spon­ta­neous projects. It’s not done yet, like most things on this site, though.

As always I wel­come any feed­back, and know­ing me you can expect another major revi­sion by the end of the year… Here’s to OCD!