New Design- Design

This is part 2 of a 5 part series starting here. This post is going to focus on the overall design of the site, and some of the decisions I made regarding it.

The first thing some might notice is that this design is wider than my other ones. I decided in creating this new template to go with a site optimized for a 1024 screen resolution. According to w3schools, only 14% of users have a screen resolution of 800×600. That is compared to 80% using 1024×768 or higher. This is also down 11% from September, the last time I checked the numbers. Further more, my target audience is tech-savvy people and college students. I’m sure if we break those numbers down into these two demographics, the number of 800×600 users would be even less.

With this new design I also wanted to move away from a tradition blog template. I made it so one post would appear on the homepage, along with a number of other resources I’ve made available. These resources include my Resume, Projects, links, and of course the traditional (to this site) site navigation. I did this in an effort to merge Casabona.Org and this site into one. I’ve also create TheJoey.Net’s first logo. It’s a circle broken into 4 quarters. Each quarter represents one of the following: Personal, Professional, Play and Projects. The Personal is any news or information having to do with me. Professional for the work I do for clients through JLC Web Design. Play is for fun/cool things I might find interesting and Projects for side projects I am working on on my free time.

I hope the new design has also made the site a little more user friendly for post navigation and searching. If you have any questions or comments, of course feel free to leave them below!