Redesign Goodness
Welcome to a blog that will be rarely updated! Seriously, I’ll do my best to create unique tutorials for this site sporadically, but mostly I’ll be focusing on Nettuts+ and ThemeForest for new tutorials.
With that said, this new design is obviously very minimal – just how I like it! I’m not an “artist” at heart, and only want to get my information across as quickly as possible. As such, when designing this new WordPress theme, I set a goal of using zero images. While I came really close, I did end up using a couple for the layout. Nevertheless, this site should be super-fast – especially once I compress and cache everything.
Now that’s not to say that this site wasn’t built using the latest tools and standards! It was created with:
- WordPress 2.8
- jQuery Framework
- 960 CSS Framework (though not entirely necessary)
- Plenty of CSS3 goodness
- Cufon font replacement
So the site is, more or less, finished. The code needs to be cleaned up, a few plugins installed, and some optimization. But overall, I’m happy with it. It’s clean, simple, and perfect for the two posts each month that I’ll be making. 
Question
I decided to remove the search functionality all together. Yesterday, it occurred to me that I rarely, if ever, search for something on a blog. Instead, I sporadically visit, read the last batch of articles, and move on. Should it be returned, considering how the WordPress search mechanism is rubbish to begin with?
Also
Be sure to review the Vault to find a list of all of my tutorials and screencasts!
Comments
Meshach said...
Congrats on the redesign Jeffrey, I love it and will be visiting often!
=)
posted on September 23, 2009
Jaysone said...
Hi Jeffrey,
Awesome redesign. Its a breeze to read. Notice that there is no contact page or anyway to allow your readers to contact you via this blog. You may have done it deliberately, but still an awesome redesign. Less is more i guess
posted on September 23, 2009
admin said...
To be honest – it was done deliberately.
posted on September 23, 2009
GaVrA said...
I like the new design! Similar to the one i am plannig for my blog, which i hope will be my own blog software…
Go go power rangers!
Oh and more tutorials! 
posted on September 23, 2009
WillxD said...
Congrats on your new design, is very minimalist and cool.
Your tutorials are very nice
Greetings (:
posted on September 23, 2009
Jayman Pandya said...
Amazing Design… Supersonic Loading… Loving it…
posted on September 23, 2009
admin said...
@Jayman – Thanks. It should be much faster now. Will be creating a screencast with some quick tips that really help.
posted on September 23, 2009
Andrew said...
Really, really nice! For some reason, well-done minimalistic websites are just so compelling.
If you don’t mind, what font is that in the leading image in this post (”redesign!”) ?
posted on September 24, 2009
admin said...
Hey Andrew. I agree – but mostly, I’m not creative enough to do anything better.
The font is a free font called Cicle. http://www.dafont.com/cicle.font
posted on September 24, 2009
Vasili said...
Love the new clean, bright design.
I knew the headings were Cicle the second I saw them.
posted on September 24, 2009
Andrew said...
Thanks!
posted on September 24, 2009
santosh setty said...
Simply Awesome Jeff.
posted on September 24, 2009
ARIF said...
Thank you Jeffrey.
I always waiting for your tutorial.
Do you upload or make your previous tutorial which upload in some other site which is not live. How to make css menu.:)
posted on September 25, 2009
Meshach said...
If you don’t mind me asking.. Why did you leave out a contact form/page?
posted on September 25, 2009
admin said...
@Meshach – Most people know how to contact me through Twitter or Nettuts+. Truthfully, I receive so many emails each day – that I don’t want any more.
posted on September 25, 2009
Meshach said...
Ah. I see. =)
posted on September 25, 2009
Adam said...
Nice blog, nice design! Big headers, big photos, great typography. Nice theme.
posted on September 28, 2009
Ricardo Machado said...
Hi. Jeff, I’m a frequent reader of your posts and tuts, and IMHO I’m very pleased to see someone cared not only in blog/screencast something but to have good quality/content on it. For that, a big applause. You earn it.
However, I can’t help to say that, although minimalistic is actually good, huge headers are not so good (once more IMHO of course).
It’s a good design, in the ’simplistic’ matter, but it’s rather big (perhaps it’s my “standard market” screen resolution of 1280×960. Yupnotebook
).
Still, I like a lot of your screencasts and tuts @ net.tutsplus.com.
Btw, does NetTuts sends a tweet when you launch/post a tut? ‘Cause it seems not…
Hugs
posted on September 29, 2009