Playground is back
With every rendition of my person site I must emphasize that this is a work in progress. With that said, welcome to my new playground. Sorry about the neurotic name changes. I can assure you they are over and I’m pretty darn happy with the new digs.
Why redesign?
I wanted to return to my roots. I started out as Playground Blues and this is where I belong. I also wanted something with room to grow. Something that had lots of drawers and cubby holes for me to put random bits. As much as I love structure and organization, taxonomies and folksonomies; I wanted to be able to throw things out there, like little easter eggs. This design lets me do just that.
To be expected.
Don’t expect anything from me. It’s better that way. I can only surprise you from here on out. My hopes are that you’ll begin to see more of those ?’s disappear.
I’m really excited about this new direction. I hope too see some of you in Austin at this years South by Southwest!
Update: Here’s the Photoshop source for this design. Feel free to remix and play.
Related tags: redesign, site, sxsw
Remarks
David Hemphill http://www.davidhemphill.com
Very nice Nathan. This looks incredible! I like the idea of having “drawers” of content that can be filled as time passes.
We’ll definitely see each other at SXSW and I can’t wait for it to come.
Joshua Brewer http://brewerdesigngroup.com
I really like this version and am quite excited to see what you throw our way.
BTW - the categories aren’t working…
Xian http://mintchaos.com
Conveniently my net NetNewsWire still lists your feed name as Playground Blues back from the last time it was PGB :).
It does look very good. Congratulations!
My only critique is that the drawers might be a little too sneaky. I didn’t notice them until I read the bit about making the ?s go away.
Paul http://www.lloydyweb.com/
I really don’t know how you do it, I really don’t. Every time, amazing. Every, single, god-damned time. For that reason I hope to see you in SXSWi with the slightest of hope of you telling me the secret behind all your design voodoo. Every single time. Oh boy.
Nathan Borror http://www.playgroundblues.com
Thanks guys. I love this stuff. Thats my secret :)
Jane http://averagejane.blogs.com
Welcome back! The site looks great.
Nathan Logan http://nathanlogan.com/
Beautiful. Simply beautiful. And I love the interface. Great work - thanks for sharing.
Å ime Ramov http://brand84.com/
Very nice work! Domaki was also nice :)
Few things inspired me for ever-changing “The Brilliance” portion of my (empty) site, I hope you don’t mind? :)
Luke http://www.red-root.com
Brilliant designed site mate, I love the random little boxes.
Nathan Borror http://www.playgroundblues.com
@Sime Thanks, borrow whatever you like.
Marjorie
While I love the overall look and design, I have a TFT screen at both home and work and the text color of the comments [#333] is so indistinguishable from the background that I had to turn the CSS off to read them. Just a thought!
Nathan Borror http://www.playgroundblues.com
@Marjorie - Sorry about that. I made some updates over the weekend and forgot to include the “bright” skin for the post pages. Things should be displaying properly now :)
Robert Andrews http://www.robertandrews.co.uk
Oh my god, this is gorgeous.
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