CSS Drive Blog CSS Drive reloaded!

Well, as you can see, CSS Drive has a new face! I can't quite remember how long the previous design was in place, but it must have been at least a couple of years now. And if I hadn't gotten off my lazy behind, it could easily have been 3 years.

With the latest design, I enlisted the help of Loading Deck to first create two page templates to be used as the skeleton for the design. It's always easier to refine something rather than create it from scratch. With a foundation to work with, I started modifying and adding in various elements of my own. My goal, aesthetics aside, was mainly to improve the intuitiveness of and efficiency to accessing the site's main features. In other words, as few clicks as possible to get to what you want. Important features like "Search" can now be accessed via a text box on every page, and the footer area lets you quickly glance over the latest activities happening on the site, from the latest forum posts, comments, to recent news posted.

A redesign is also an excellent opportunity to introduce something new to a site, and I'm happy to announce the new CSS Menu Designs section. It's mainly a spin-off of the old Horizontal and Vertical menu sites galleries, which was fundamentally flawed in that you couldn't actually see the menu clearly in the screenshots! This new section changes that, and also allows me to feature great menu designs independent of whether the page itself is well designed.

Well, that's it for now. Hopefully you like the new design. Send your hate mails here, I'm used to them by now. :)

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