A New Daily Has Come
That's right, Kotogoto Daily
has been redesigned. Actually, I started to dislike the old design just a few
weeks after I had launched it. But I didn't get around to creating a new design
until now. Well, in fact, this design has been laying around for some days, as
my pc is down yet again. Luckily I had uploaded the files to my server in order
to test them. So on this old pc that I use currently, I downloaded them and finished
the rest.
The site has a new layout and elemente are arranged differently. It was actually
a very interesting process to move everything around and see where things could
be placed, how the layout works, and how it doesn't. Plus, I wanted to make certain
functions more obvious. Take for example the comments. Before, comments and the
input form were located in a pop-up window. In an attempt to make the comment
function more attractive to use and make it easier to read the comments that have
been posted, I integrated it into the main page. It was a tad more complicated
to code than the individual pop-up window.
Other design issues came up during the process and further shaped the layout and
functionality of the page. The image title and text and the comments form two
colums below the image. Now if the image has a portrait format, the page will
not be wide enough to incorporate both columns. Thus, I created a second layout
where those colums turn into two rows. Pretty tricky, huh?
Working on this pc is a mess, even HTML editing is just awful. The computer is
really slow, and it just doesn't “feel” as good as my regular one.
Maybe it's due to Windows 98? I guess you get used to the usability of XP, but
don't realize its improved handling until you go back to an ancient OS. I wonder
how Windows Vista is going to feel like. I've seen it in action and it's shiny
and everything's glowing, but I haven't worked with it myself and thus I have
no impression of its usability yet. Well, next year then.
In other news, a project I made at work is now online. It's a microsite promoting
a new kind of cellphone with television functions. I made the design according
to the company's CI, and also wrote the HTML and did the Flash streaming videos.
This is my very own project and thus I am somewhat proud of it. Go see it here.
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