I must admit it went smoother than I anticipated, but I have just overhauled the look and feel of the main site to match the store and am pretty happy with the results. 🙂
There are still innumerable minor tweaks and corrections that need to be made here and there, but overall – I think that the end result is a cleaner, easier to read and navigate main site and store.
While before we had a top, bottom, left hand side and right hand side navigation columns, I have streamlined it so that you can find pretty much anything you need to a single column down one side.
It is also easier to navigate back to SBG from the forum or this blog – just look for the big red SBG logo (like the one pictured right) and it will take you back to the homepage.
Furthermore, especially for the main site, previous issues with sizing of graphics has been fixed – as when SBG started back in 2005, all the images were 490 pixels wide and gradually became wider – but we now have a site that is streamlined enough to find that happy medium, allowing space to expand into the future and speed up page loading times.
I am not exactly going to rest on my laurels, and will be especially busy in the lead up to Christmas making sure all the small details are as good as they can possibly be – but I will certainly say that the process was a lot less painless than I expected it to be and I especially hope that YOU will like it and find it easier to use too.
A solid foundation has been set for my work in 2017 – once again building on and inspired by what came before. And there is a lot planned, but I will save that (and share with you some sneak previews) in another post.
Talk to you all again soon.
– Paul
