Friday, December 9th, 2011

What’s up everyone? This is the third and final part of “How I Designed the new Ajaxxx.com.” Let’s recap, shall we?

In the first part, I talked about the planning that went into the site. I analyzed the old site from top to bottom, assessing the areas that needed improvement. In addition, I also made notes of the things I really liked about the old site and how I’d carry them over. In the second part, I went further. I got much more technical and talked about things like the page numbers, the tag cloud, and the social media elements; I also talked about things I chose not to use.

So now, in this third edition, I’m going to tie it all together. I’m going to show you what plugins I used and didn’t use (and why), some of the back-end things I did to make my life easier, and also some additional stuff about the planning. And of course, I’ll go into what I did to finalize it all.

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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

In the last edition of “How I Designed the new Ajaxxx.com”, I talked about the planning that went into the site. I overanalyzed the old website from top to bottom, making notes of all the issues I had with it. From lack of picture and video support on some of the pages to how long it took to update the site, there were a bunch of things that bothered me. At the same time though, there were elements that I borrowed from the old site too (like the Sindhi writing you see in the background, along with the song quotes in the banners above). It was a pretty drawn out process, but it was all worth it in the end.

In this entry, I’ll dig deeper. With the planning behind us, I’ll talk about some of the cool things I implemented, some things I chose not to do (and my reasons behind them), and the most fun part…the challenges I encountered.

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