Smallhouse Log

Thursday

I may have obliquely or overtly mentioned that I am working on a new layout for the site. It began with the "Elite Cadre" of my web design class this summer. The Elite Cadre, who absolutely loved being referred to as such, consisted of six students who had elected to take the second session of the class, even though they had been in the first, and the class was only one session long. These six students got an advanced course, covering topics like PHP, forms, and whatever else they asked me about. They divided their work time between helping their less edified classmates, small daily projects, and an overarching, multi-page website they designed and coded over the course of all three weeks. Unlike the smaller project they had previously done, this over-project required not only visual design, which they were already aces at, but structural design on a much larger scale than previously. They were still a little shaky on single-page structure, so we spent a full day talking about componants of webpages and websites and sketching our plans onto paper. I worked side-by-side with them, and we all compared designs at the end, offering suggestions, praises, and criticisms. I'm happy to say that they all were deserving mostly of praises.

But the point of the story is that I'd begun a new design, and it stuck in my mind. As I've endured these few months in the Bridgepartment without Internet, my work ethic eventually centered in on this design. Since about the only thing one can do without an Internet connection is code websites, I set to work dilligently, and I'm happy to report that the results are shiny. Shiny, but not yet complete. Stay tuned.

Edit: More progress has been achieved, and the prototype is available for viewing and commentary: Stylistic or functional criticism is welcome.

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