On Thursday I went to the Future of Web Design conference. It made me reflect a lot about who I was and what I was trying to achieve, and first things first it made me realise my website was a mess and I needed to fix it.

It made me realise I needed to redo it. It needed to look nicer (I've never ever bothered too much with the design side of my websites) and I needed to make my messages clearer, and make the website easier to navigate. I realised I had focused a lot on showcasing my visualisation plugins which although is an important part of this website, I was showing them out of context and probably confusing a lot of people.

So I now promise to focus more on the design aspects of my sites. I'm doing a lot of graphic design in the canvas tag realm but haven't been doing so much in the css/html space. So I pulled out a copy of the opensource product inkscape (for creating svg files) and got a bit arty which has created my new website header, and background. I've paid attention to my css for once in my life and have condensed much of my content. I've added "older posts" and "newer posts" links to the bottom of the page to make this blog more readable. I've added key links at the top of the page to areas of interest, including an Explore link which allows you to try out my visualisations.. but only if you want to. I've also outlined what my current work is in the My Work section.

The only issues I had was with getting transparent pngs to work in Internet Explorer but luckily I found a lovely the jQuery (supersleight plugin to solve that one.

So the result in a nutshell, is a more interesting to look at, hopefully clearer to read and navigate around website, and hopefully the start of a few cooler websites designed by myself. Would be really interested in feedback....!