The entire website is updated and rebuilt from the ground up. So what’s different? Hit the jump for the list of changes.

Obviously, the first thing is the aesthetics of the site. I opted with black and white since it gives the most contrast of any color combination. I also opted with lots and lots of negative space.

If you’re a first time visitor, here’s what the site looked like before the update. Nothing really wrong with it. Nothing great about it either. Man, look at that navigation menu. What was I thinking? The color combination isn’t that exciting either. The blog looked like a separate site even though it shared the colors of the main page. Now the blog shares the same layout as the other pages of the site. Sense of unity? You bet.

Second would be my portfolio page. Before, I used a Flash-based slideshow to show off my work. For awhile, I thought it was pretty cool. It still is actually but it wasn’t what I was looking for in the end. I got an iPhone recently and I couldn’t view my portfolio because, unfortunately, you can’t view Flash content on an iPhone. Now, instead of a slideshow, it’s just a page with thumbnails that link to their respective images. But wait! There’s javascript involved! With a little help from FancyZoom, the images “pop out” when you click on the thumbnails. The effect also works on an iPhone. Really cool. I also organized everything into categories for easier browsing.

Third is the coding under the hood. For the old site, I let Dreamweaver do most of the work and I kept on piling on elements on top of each other. There were lines of code everywhere and I had to look really hard if I wanted to make a change. Now the CSS is separate from the HTML (which I wanted to do before but I didn’t). Making changes is totally easier now.

I hope y’all like they new design and hopefully I don’t have to change it again soon since I’m pretty sick of typing out codes. The site itself isn’t super fancy but it does what it needs to do.