I finished reformatting older updates to move them to the update archives between my last post and this one.
At last, I just rolled out the redesign for the home page with a rewritten introduction! The next steps will be publishing the split-off archive pages, publishing the next Travel Logs entry, and reviewing other pages for outdated information and outdated code. The colors might still be tweaked but this is mostly finalized.
The #SiteDesign changes I’m planning for the Magical Renegades site tie into the new story being a #Webnovel.
I can put a chapter and the notes for it all on the same page. Separate trivia and notes pages came about because the format was previously a webtoon on another platform and I wouldn’t have been able to fit all the notes in the author comment section.
The redesign is still in-progress and I'll also adjust the colors to improve readability.
With this chapter, I put the commentary for each in a section on the chapter pages so it should be a smoother reading experience. I added a navigation section at the top but should try to make it more polished and visible.
Before the relaunch, I put all of the commentary on a separate page divided into sections.
I might also put any trivia in a trivia section on the chapter page instead of having a separate page as before.
Voor iedere website bouwer:
Niemand, echt NIEMAND wil een popup voor notificaties in de browser.
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Stop hier mee, alvast bedankt namens iedereen.
Three years later, I'm slow to write updates or publish, but I'm still proud (edit: giggle about the) of the hacky design I wrangled up and pushed out:
Damn, I really enjoy the feeling of deleting an entire client website instance when it has a ridiculously bloated database and file system. Kill it with fire, then migrate over the new, clean version.
Just went from a site that was 1.48GB of total data to replacing it with a much nicer site with a total of 173MB. I would say that is... better.
On Wikipedia's site redesign
It's pretty subtle, I'll admit.
One feature, a max-width to the article body is a change I'd applied for years in my own custom CSS tweaks. That's welcome to see incorporated into the default style.
I most frequently read Wikipedia on a large e-ink tablet. I'll choose the desktop view, but found the left-hand sidebar annoying, and would usually zoom the page to chop that off.
Now all I have to do is collapse the floating table-of-contents (which I don't need for navigation anyway, at least not most of the time), and I get a full-screen margin-to-margin text.
Which is an improvement. A small one, in the grand scheme, but this is a rare case of a site redesign which does not gratuitously annoy me.
Which probably sounds like far fainter praise than it is: improving on a long-existing design is actually difficult, and doing so without annoying or confusing site visitors is exceedingly rare.
Job well done.
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