Introducing the new Karthik82.com design!

Sunday · 26 Oct 08 · 03:38 PM IST | Posted by Karthik | Category: General

I spent the last couple of weekends working on a redesign for this site.  After quite a few hours of work, it is now done, and the new design is live!  You should be looking at it now, and as a reminder, here's what the old design looked like —

Karthik82.com — The Old Design

When the time came for me to re-upload the website after switching to a new host, I was actually thinking of shifting the blog to Wordpress, which the host allows me to set up automatically.  But then, there was no easy way to migrate all my old posts (more than 400) and comments (nearly 300) to Wordpress, and hence I decided to continue using my own custom-coded system.  Still, this was an opportunity to do a redesign, and I decided to reorganise the content a little too.  Comparing the old design and the current one, you'll see that the focus has shifted to the blog, and I've got rid of some infrequently accessed items off the main page.  The current design is actually based on Derek Punsalan's Grid Focus Wordpress theme.  I'm not actually using that theme (because obviously, that is designed for a Wordpress blog), my design is built from scratch, but I followed the Grid Focus theme quite closely.  Dimensionally, I was inspired by the 960 Grid System.

As for the reorganisation of content, I haven't actually deleted anything — if there's anything you're looking for and it's not on the main page, it has been moved to the Archives page.  So what do you think of the new look?

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#1
26 Oct 08 · 06:25 PM
Comment by user Varun
The new design is a million times better than the old one! Am seeing it on Fedora now... will check it out on Windows later tonight...
#2
26 Oct 08 · 06:44 PM
Comment by user Karthik
Thanks man! Actually I also saw it on Firefox/Fedora (and IE6/Win) on your computer :) Looks good.

I'll boot Ubuntu from CD also and check it out.
#3
26 Oct 08 · 08:48 PM
I like both the designs. The old one is a bit naughty i would say, more youthful.this is a little professional.
#4
27 Oct 08 · 02:50 AM
Nice design! I like it: it is elegant.
#5
27 Oct 08 · 03:13 PM
Nice one Karthik. Elegant and minimalistic. Light on resources.

Regarding reorganizing the site, if you are on Apache, it takes a bit of fiddling around with .htaccess files, but it avoids a lot of 404s :)
#6
28 Oct 08 · 07:29 AM
Comment by user Pablo
the new design is great! and its very different from all the previous one you had. i like how the menu is much more simple than before. :)
#7
28 Oct 08 · 10:05 PM
Comment by user Karthik
Thanks everyone!

Arun -- Even though I did a reorganisation of the content, the page URLs haven't changed, so no need for fiddling with .htaccess files :)

Haven't yet checked the site out with Ubuntu... I thought of waiting for a couple of days more for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex to come out! Will download that and then have a look at it.
#8
31 Oct 08 · 09:37 AM
New design is neat and simple. Color it a little more!
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