I’ve continued working on the design/layout of geektyme.org and it has been evolving nicely. The first change you’ll notice (that’s a link, click it!) is the removal of the stationary footer (compare to take one). After much pain was poured into finding a suitable way to do this that rendered well on all browsers (mainly, the much-hated IE 6 and prior) I decided the best course of action was to remove it, and go with a more cross-browser-kind design.
There is still some work to be done on take two at this point, but you can see where most of the information is going to be. Originally, I was going to focus on the sites, having them listed down the center, as you can see from the “Generic Geek Unit” in the top block. However, I’m still playing around with this idea. It largely depends on what I want to focus on – the activity/content of a certain site, or the site itself. I’m thinking that focusing on the activity/content of a site will be better. If I go that way, down the center you would see recent posts, commits (for the svn repositories), etc. and on the sides would be a list of the sites that are a part of the geektyme.org network. This is pretty much the reverse of what the design currently implies – and I’m still not sure if that’s the way I want to go. Thoughts, anyone?
Next, I need to work on the sites navigation. This will essentially be a bar across the bottom of the current header where you will select “about”,“blogs”,“repositories”,“sites”, etc. – I need to work on the names, I know – and then possibly be able to select subcategories (i.e. in blogs you’d have divisions like “programming”, “design”, and the like).
Once I get the design completed, I’ll start my work on the actual code. I need to find a good way to pull back the information I want (blog entires, svn commits) – I can use RSS for the blogs, but I’m not sure about the SVN commits, and I’m sure there will be other stuff that will come up. That, however, will be left for another time.
