A long time in the making, I’ve finally gotten the chance to launch a redesign of the site. Hopefully you all don’t think it looks like butt.

I went through an unbelievable amount of comps in order to arrive at this. Suprising, as this is probably the most ridiculously simple version of all of them. Because I started thinking of a redesign a year and a half ago, I’ve covered the “worn look” and the “stark tech look” in comps. I’m not sure how I ended up here. I just wanted something more streamlined, clean and overall less cluttered. (Perhaps homeownership is influencing my design now?)

The new logo is, eh. I’m not sold on it, but I do like it a smidge. Perhaps it will grow on me. While initially it looks like another tired infinity sign (which it is a nod to), it is actually a d and a p intertwined. Clever, I know. Or not.

I’ve also tweaked the UI a bit, moving things around, deleting things that I was not updating at all (books? hello?) and automating things that I was lazy about updating (photos now courtesy of Flickr’s photostream). All in all, an attempt to get me to write more, and better content, as I now don’t throw up a little in my mouth each time I load the site.

If you have any feedback whatsoever, let me know. Things might be a bit bumpy for a few weeks until I have everything tweaked. And though I hate the normal designer disclaimers, but it really is true:

This site is optimized for Firefox v1.5 or later and a resolution of at least 1024x768.

If you have those, you’ll see something like this, with nifty columns! Thank you, Firefox.