I’ve had the orange look since December 2001. There were many things I liked about it. I liked the uplifting orange. I liked the flexibility of the three-column design. I liked the fact that I got to see my nephews every time I visited my web page. I liked that I was able to display a lot of information on the same page and still feel like it wasn’t overly cluttered. Unlike my previous design, I didn’t get tired of it instantly. But it’s been over two years. Much has changed in my life since the orange design came about.
I found myself thinking more and more about a design change in the last few months. I wanted to be able to put up pictures of beautiful California and the different states we visited this summer. I wanted to encourage myself to take more pictures. I wanted the design to be simpler. I wanted to remove the thousand links I had somehow accumulated on the left column. The down side of this design means you may have to click through two pages to get to some of the content but I think that’s worth the simplicity.
All the other pages are still in the old design and will be updated little by little in the coming month. Let me know what you think of the new look.
I like it! Dammit… now feel behind the times. I need to resurrect sneaker.org soon! 🙂
AweSOME! I prefer this. I liked the orange site but got tired of seeing the same pictures of you…wanted new ones all the time. I love this!
I love it — very elegant and refined, well done! Glad you had a great time on PCH (I grew up down there), I look forward to seeing (and reading) more about it! 🙂
It’s gorgeous, Karen. Somehow it seems more like you–or at least how I think of you.
I’m with the ‘yay’ brigade… this is really chic! And the picture is really beautiful. 🙂 And yes, Elenita, you expressed it perfectly. Great going!
Wow! Simple but yet elegant design…for most people, it is challenge to change, but it is a very good change. 🙂 The picture is incredible….making me want to come out and explore more what CA has to offer…