Do you ever look at your web site and just think that it feels old? I don't keep track but I am sure I look at my website on a daily basis, whether it's to answer comments or to just look at how well it is designed. Regardless the reason, after awhile your site just begins to look old.
In all honesty, M1k3's 2nd version could probably still hold up today (if it followed standards), but it's just that designs get old and people, including yourself, like change. That's why last week I decided to do a little updating to M1k3...I felt like things were old and I needed to update, make things better and more efficient.
A few changes.
One of the first things I wanted to do was get my Flickr pictures on my web site since I am a picture maniac with my iPhone. Secondly, I wanted to do something with the navigation; the absolute positioned navigation was getting on my nerves...at an extreme height. Third, and probably the least important was the objective to remove any ads not creating revenue.
Search has arrived.
Search was a feature I ended up adding at last minute. It's funny though, because it's my favorite addition even though it was last minute. The search functionality I added in is very impressive...to me at least. You may search a keyword and from there you can switch back and forth based on articles or comment results.
Em based...resize your text.
The feature that was the hardest to implement was the em based layout feature. Resize your text, everything resizes perfectly -- do it. The thing that surprised me was how hard it was to implement ems, but if you think about it my site is pretty graphic intense so it took a lot of time, a lot of markup, and a lot of sliding doors (css sliding doors).
Until next time, follow me on twitter, @michaeldick