"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." A new look for GavinFriday.com
I’ve finally redesigned my oldest website, gavinfriday.com. It’s kind of an in between thing, as the look of it will probably change somewhat once the next album is out, but I’m happy to have ditched the ten year old, dreamweaver-created and Blogger-powered mess that was there before I threw MT4 at it. There were moments I wish I hadn’t, I find MT4 almost impossible to get my head around, but I managed to sort of make it do what I want in the end. I don’t really build websites anymore. I’ve done content editing for the longest time and now tell real developers what to build, so you could say I was a little rusty.
The redesign is based on a rejected ‘heart’ design for a poster promoting the ‘Ich Liebe Dich’ shows in Dublin a few years back. It’s a really cool graphic, but the cross of the heart sticks out quite a bit which makes it heart to design around. I’m still not happy with the design, it is a bit of a compromise, taking into account feedback from friends, the client and my coding limitations. I am not keen on the font used for the ‘gavin friday’ header, or of its placement on the page. I think it would look better with a less ostentatious one. I also think there’s too little connection between the homepage and the rest of the site.
And there’s still much to do. Mr client was happy and I thought we were ready enough to launch, but I still got years of archived stuff to add to the database (Blogger export wouldn’t work and it needs careful filtering and rewriting anyway.) and lots of other things to add and improve.
