Apr 25
May 1st Reboot
2005 at 02.16 am posted by Veerle Pieters
It’s been 2 years now that I’m working on a new website for my business and every time other projects got in the way and it gets postponed… Then some time passes and I look at it again with a reaction such as ‘did I create this?!... Yak!‘ and I start all over again. This went on and on till somewhere last Summer when I finally got the design part right (version 6 or was it 7?).
In November I looked at it again and I liked what I saw… So finally I could start coding. Which brings me to the point that I’ve covered a lot of ground since then and had some tweaking to do to start recovering from div-itis.
But again work and projects (and my blog) souped up all of the free time. It was supposed to be launched on January 1st., then end of March etc. etc. Then I heard about this May 1st Reboot and I thought I really need a deadline where there is no escape anymore :-D This was perfect! I’m a bit ashamed of the current version of our business website which is offline now as we speak. It was designed in 1998-1999, so imagine! I waited far too long. The code, look ... and content were so outdated. I tell you, I will be so relieved when this new baby will be online ;-)
Since the new Duoh! website won’t be entirely Flash, hell no, it will be a hybrid, you’ll have the option to choose our portfolio in Flash or XHTML, and of course all in the same window. So no popups since I hate them, especially the ones that pop open and cover your entire screen (no pleasant experience when you are on a 22 inch cinema display).
We’re also participating in the CSS Reboot edition. This launch is big since our entire housestyle is getting updated, new logo, letterheads, business cards the whole nine yards. And you, readers, will get a premiere later this week ;-)
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Wow, i never even knew of this event and it’s been happening for 4 years already now.
I shall have to contribute to this myself next year. As obviously it’s too late now! heh.
I look forward to seeing your reboot Veerle!
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I’m very curious to see your new site; I always thought the old site was not in line with the work you did…
And I know how hard it is to redesign your own site - we had a reboot too (not May though).
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Looking forward to see your new design. We did a redesign last week and I want to do another one as soon as possible. I am still not satisfied but that is probably what designer and such always are.
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Fun, aint it?
I’m participating as well.
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Okay everyone, say it with me now.
Ooooooooh. Aaaaaaaaah.
-Ryan
PS: Can’t wait!
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I can’t wait to see!
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The reboot is a great thing because a self-imposed deadline is never as effective as it should be.
I only disagree on one point—Of course popups are annoying, but I can’t imagine any experience being unpleasant on a 22-inch cinema display!
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i look forward to seeing your new design. this is gonna be cool.
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That is one of the worlds worst holding pages. You wouldnt believe the zoom i had to use to read the text.
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Goodness! I thought your other site was pretty nice, but will be excited to see what your new one looks like in comparison! Will you showcase your logos and web projects in a similar fashion?
I guess updating the Flash parts would be a good idea, since Flash has changed quite a bit - especially trends in web site usage, and of course making it more CSS and xHTML compliant is probably a good idea as well.
But I hope you incorporate some of the cute look of your old site into the new one, too!
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Looking foward to the launch as well ;-)
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I understand. I would have like to joine the reboot but I felt I need to put up my site as soon as possible. New project were and the fact that I kept redesigning it was constantly pushing the date back. I’m still not happy with what I ended up with and will soon be doing yet another redesign.
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it gets postponed… Then some time passes and I look at it again with a reaction such as ‘did I create this?!... Yak!‘
Ha! I know exactly what you’re talking about..heck a project I’m working on now has had about 9 complete revisions of the design. And now there’s time being lost *again* so I’m already itching to throw it out and go for nr 10.
Ugh.
But anyway, let me get this straight: Only duoh.com itself is being revamped, right? (I.E. not this journal)
PS. Where’s the automatic scroll to the preview when I preview? (e.g. an id-tag on the end of the preview url)
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@AkaXakA, yes it is our business website www.duoh.com not this blog. I will redesign this one too, but that’s for later (next on the list).
About the ‘preview’ I’m aware of this. Since I’ve updated my blog to pMachine 2.4 I’m using the ‘original’ comment template again. It’s a bit of a hassle to figuring out how I did this again… but most of all there is lack of time right now (since I’m working on my business website in full speed).
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When I first heard about May 1st Reboot I planned to participate as well. After reading the guidelines I decided not to. Just because of the dumb Reboot Holder Rule. Why should I shut down my site? Why replace it with an ugly, way to dark, extremely unreadable holder? Moreover my site is in german, so not all visitors might understand the english holder.
I hope next year they figure out a better way, like having the participants put a simple Reboot-Logo on their old site, without having a complete shut-down.
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@Nicolai: Your right about the holding page that isn’t a graceful solution. But in my case such a holding page isn’t more of disaster then a website that last got updated a few years ago. And I subscribed to May 1st to force myself to finish it for once and all.