New design!

[brooke]

I like the new design. Nothing more disconcerting than a bunch of 'nice' people grinning at you all the time. also, I like the fixed width and the clarity of the content.

Also worth pointing out that its good to put the 'directory' in a prominent position, its the first thing I always look for. I love directories!!! I love putting my clients in them, its my hobby.

[Brian Turner]

Thanks for the feedback - and to be honest, it was something of a loss to remove Brian's babes from the original Platinax design.

Still, I think Mark's icons do a much better job...

[escort]

Much more professional and unique Brian, how about getting the icons to link to the relevant sections, or is that in hand already.

Cheers

K

[RWA]

Brian,

On your blogs page the bullet points need fixing so they are within the box when browsing in FireFox, I think its the same problem I highlighted with your homepage. Screenshot attached:

[Brian Turner]

Thanks for the heads up.

Damn this cross-browser compatability thing.

[RWA]

Thats all the fun of web design, would be boring if it were easy.

[Gary]

Whats wrong with easy........I like easy.

[Brian Turner]

Originally Posted by Brian Turner

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.