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Old 31-10-2006, 07:40 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Well, as you've probably noticed, the Platinax site has been migrating to a new design concept...

It's now almost finished - the main site has now been updated with the new design, to make everything simpler and easier to use:

Here's the busy old design - with too many links, too confusing for visitors, no real aim or focus excepting to be link heavy:






And here's the new design - much simpler and easy to read, navigate, and use:



Of course, it's moments like this I remember how much I *hate* webdesign - it's so damn time-consuming!!

Still got amendments to make to the site - footer links, remove old content, and also going to make a couple more changes to the forums just to represent them more in line with the main site - nothing major, but enough.

Next I have to set up the blogs in the new format...

Damn, better catch up with the news as well...

EDIT: Special thanks go to Mark at Eagle Imagery for doing the Platinax icons, and bumfluff at Seed Design for setting up the new design template in a CSS-only format.
You know, I'm getting itchy feet about the Platinax design again.

The newer version is sleeker, but now I much prefer the original concept behind the older design - especially as now I think I know how to make the information presentation much sleeker and easier.
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