After changing my main domain name from Parkzer.co.cc to Parkzer.com, I decided to redesign my website’s layout as well. After building the basic design, I started spreading the news of my new website layout around and asked for people to suggest improvements. I got a handful of ideas, and started building a list.
The following list shows the ideas I received and the things I still have left to do:
Find a better color than vomit yellow for the links. (What about vomit purple? Just kidding)Fix .htaccess forwarding for the other domains. (Someone help me with this, it won’t work)Turn all the external links into graphic advertisements, and get rid of the external links section.Pre-resize the advertisement images instead of resizing on-the-fly.Copy the advertisement images onto this server to reduce the number of outside connections.Get rid of the animations on the advertisements in the sidebar, they’re annoying.Change the navigation button container to make it seem more fitting. (Changed buttons instead)Add more background colors so the same background appears twice consecutively less often.Create two more columns at the bottom and move all social networking stuff down there.Add a watermarked Twitter bird to the top right corner of the Latest Tweets box.Split the newest pages section to newest blog posts and newest content.Extend the number of items in each ‘Newest’ box to ten.Make a dynamic subheader for FMiMHv2 and LOLWTF, similar to the one already on the RS pages.Make the Justin White advertisement open the page in a new tab instead of this one.Increase the opacity of the text on the yellow navigation buttons. (No longer applies)Get rid of the empty white box at the bottom.Automatically import non-linked tweets from Twitter instead of adding them manually. (Too hard)Fix the Misc. Resources -> Spyware Protect 2009 page’s formatting.Create a ‘The Best of the Best’ page that has the funniest and most popular blog articles.Make the Home navigation button link to / instead of /index.Change the color scheme of the navigation buttons to be more consistent.Put in lightning the background for the ‘Newest’ boxes. (Tried, looks random and not very good)Replace the word ‘Twitter’ with the logo in the Latest Tweets box. (Tried, looks out of place)Link the word Blog in the ‘Newest Blog Entries’ box to the blog archive page.Compress the navigation button images. (Done, they went from ≈20 KB each to ≈2 KB each.)
Let me know if you have a suggestion to add to the list.
Come back later to check on my progress.