kartooner

After much thought over the past few weeks I’ve come to the real­iza­tion that I’m not sat­is­fied with the design of this site. I sup­pose my afore­men­tioned Des­ig­nat­i­tus has kicked in once again and the designer in me has decided to do a com­plete over­haul of this site, including:

1. Code from scratch instead of rely­ing on Mov­able Type tem­plates as a basis to the design. Granted, using tem­plates to build from is fine but it’s like mak­ing a cake from fresh ingre­di­ents — in the end it just tastes better.

2. Restruc­ture the lay­out. Rely less on try­ing to emu­late other designs and instead cre­ate some­thing of my own. I’m an artist and intepre­ta­tion of design is immi­nent, but hav­ing some­thing that feels like your own is gen­er­ally more satisfying.

3. Uti­liz­ing more MT code, I would like to have some­thing more robust and fea­ture rich. Focus­ing my inten­tions on build­ing this site to be much more than a blog.

4. Com­press the cat­e­gories into 4 or 5 cat­e­gories instead of the num­ber that exists now. I’d much rather focus my atten­tion and writ­ing on a few choice top­ics instead of try­ing to cover every­thing that comes to mind or things that I’ve found on the Inter­net. Sites like boingboing.net are doing this already and I don’t want to rein­vent the wheel. This site was cre­ated for much more than trivia and moreso to show­case my design work and research.

I’d expect this will take me any­where from 2 weeks to a span of a few months con­sid­er­ing I don’t wish to rush this redesign. I’d much rather do my research mak­ing the end result more appeal­ing to the point where I can focus on writ­ing, instead of con­stantly re-designing this site.