The New ScaleNine Design is Live
I’ve been wanting to redesign the ScaleNine site for a while now. As soon as I finished the book I immediately started to take advantage of my new found free time to work on a new design. After about a 1 1/2 months of getting in some hours of designing and coding here and there, the result is what you see now. Let’s do a before and after comparison:
ScaleNine (old)
ScaleNine (new)
There are drastic differences between the old and new designs and I’m pretty happy with the results. The new structure and organization of the site is going to allow me to do a lot more with content. The homepage specifically will allow some great flexibility for things I’m thinking about doing in the future.
I still have a bunch of content to add, including submissions to the gallery and showcase area. One thing I was sure to have in the new design was the names of the authors who created and submitted themes to the site. I constantly had to correct people who thought I made all the themes on ScaleNine.
So, there you go. A new look for ScaleNine.com. Stay tuned for some more updates in the coming months.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Nice! Looks good. And congrats on the book being finished. Awesome stuff.
July 5th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Solid re-design, looks hot.
July 5th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Looks really great dude! So 2009
July 6th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Hola Juan, sólo decirte que el diseño te ha quedado espectacular, y eso que el anterior me gustaba mucho.
Felicidades por el blog y a seguir así.
Un saludo!
July 6th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
The site looks fantastic! You put us designer-challenged developers to shame.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Awesome design. I love it. What has traditionally been your background? Designer or Developer? You sure combine both superbly!
July 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Thanks everyone for the great feedback.
@William - My background is in design, primarily in branding, advertising and collateral systems. Eventually I gravitated towards Flash, HTML, CSS and Ajax because I wanted to make what I designed functional. Now I work mostly in Flex, but am starting to get involved with designing/developing for other technologies and devices.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:28 am
It’s been more than a month since I’ve checked in on scale9 and I have to say your redesign is fabulous! Congrats!
July 25th, 2008 at 6:47 am
I really like the new design. The GUI is very simple, easy and pleasing to the eye,