Re-design! 28 Apr, 2003
I've started working on v3 of this site. I have a pile of things I want to implement and / or improve, and seeing as it's been nearly six months since v2 went live, I reckon we're due a change.
Rather than tweaking the current design, I'm working on a whole new template, which makes for better design decisions I find. The last thing I want is to get bogged down in the "old way of doing things." Taking an existing design as a prototype, and building from scratch means that every design decision is re-evaluated, and the developer is forced to look again at what it is (s)he is trying to achieve.
Gah, I never go for the quick route eh. :-D
The challenge of course is to maintain links and so forth. This isn't too bad with Domino when you consider things like multiple design elements aliases combined with server-side re-directs. Also, I'm working on a new comments system that doesn't rely on Javascript or pop-ups (Mike will be pleased). I'm going for a slightly different approach to the norm, which in turn means my views have to be a little more "intelligent", and that's where things have gotten somewhat tricky. I want to test the query string for certain things, and computed @formula within a view column is not really the place to do this.
Hmmm… It's all good fun! Once I have that cracked, the re-design should proceed pretty quickly. Watch this space!