As much as I have been keeping track of time, it’s unbelievable how quickly this summer is flying by for us. When time flies, updates walk, which means the latter get later and later. There is a good reason for the delay, however.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Blog Post
A few weeks ago, I was ready to post an entry on our refresh. Content and concepts were being worked on. Features were being refined. Navigation was being renamed. The site was really taking shape, with all the different page types beginning to hang together. Watching a site come to life is one of the most exciting parts of working on a project. No matter how much you plan ahead, those plans change once you begin building a site. So, once it begins to come together, it’s great. To celebrate, I wanted to share what we’d been working on!
Unfortunately, it wasn’t good enough.
As good as the heading had become, we decided it just wasn’t good enough. Back to the drawing board (or Photoshop, as the case may be).
This doesn’t mean I don’t have an update for you, because I do. It’s not the current version of the header. This is the header we had before we made some changes. The current version will be up later this week. In the meantime, here are versions one and two presented for you to compare. Click on the thumbnails for larger versions:
Here’s what you saw before:
And here’s where we were before starting over (again, not the current version of the header):
Among the changes to this design: the main navigation was redesigned, the search box refined, and, overall, the header was streamlined.
Here they are again, compared top to bottom:
The other big change is that we’ve included our new navigation, previously omitted. There will be posts with more information about the navigation, as well as the new and improved site design, coming soon.
Otherwise, we are working away our summer. This isn’t the only exciting thing we’re working on right now. We’ll all be writing more about forthcoming features in the days and weeks to come.
We want to know what you think about the design so far. Do you like the direction we’re heading in? What would you like to know more about? This blog is to help us know what the community is interested in, so please leave a comment below.
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