New site layout
This is my brand-new layout. Dubbed ‘Technological Fantasy’, it replaces the ‘Ogremindes.net Ultraclean’ theme that preceded it.
Technological Fantasy is designed to address a number of shortcomings in the older theme. The most important and obvious change is the switch from a white background to an olive green one. The site has become more of an image gallery than a blog, and the glaringly white backdrop was a rather distracting choice (not to mention the big, full colour image on every page). That’s to say that the textual aspects of the site are unimportant. Indeed, the text colour has been carefully chosen to provide ample contrast in line with WC3 accessibility guidelines.
The second problem with the old site was hard coding. In order to achieve it’s unusual site structure required a lot of exceptions that made adding new categories a pain. By going back to a more conventional blog structure the site can be easily expanded whenever I need or want it to.
Finally data I received showed that most users visiting the site would only read one page and leave, without looking around the site for other related pages. With the ‘related posts’ section in the sidebar of single posts added, I hope more users will take the time to explore further.
Because of it’s construction, I won’t provide Utraclean as an alternate theme, although I may use it’s predecessor, ‘Adam’s Blog’, in that role.