Sangent Redesign | Sangent - The Daily Ramblings

submitted by Sang on 10.29.2005 in Site News

After receiving several “compliments” about how my site looks like puke (it kinda does), I’ve decided to start on a new layout. This layout will look somewhat professional with a laidback banner (I’ll get to this later). Why? I want people to take me seriously. Even though 95% of the “articles” on my site are not even serious or true and even though 69% of statistics are made up on the spot, I want people to at least believe some of my articles. I’ve seen some sites that looks professionally made with poorly written blog entries that gets on the front of lifehacker.org or digg.com (automatic 10,000 unique visitors) while there are sites that looked like it was made by a monkey on crack with professionally written articles that doesn’t get anywhere. Not cool. Anyway, my new site will look something like this:

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See how sweet that looks? I can say something completely absurd like “scientists have confirmed that there will be 12 weeks of snow for the Southern US,” and people would be hopping all over it like a overly excited bunnies. Now, it won’t look like that, but it’ll look so cool that you won’t even recognize it. Trust me.

How far along am I in the layout? I may not have started, but what I have in mind is sweet. Here’s what I have in mind:

Wide. Some of the games are wide, so my layout has to be, too.
Light, peaceful colors. The attractive yellow is out the window now. There will be a hint of green here and there, but rest assured, it won’t be puke green.
3D effects. The layout will look like it’s hovering over your monitor.

Yeah, that’s pretty much it. You can follow my progress by checking back at this post every now and then. Since I have two tons of homework, the coding the designing will take place over the weekends, so this post will mostly change by the time you check back on Monday (for those naughty kids who only come to my site at school/work). Here’s how it’s gonna break down:

Banner: 3/10
Background: 10/10
Coding: 3/10
Testing: 0/10

Total: 40%

Stay tuned for more updates.