In designing this website I tried to keep design clean, simple and neat. I tried to focus on its contents rather than putting in media (graphics, flash, etc.). Simplicity in making a website is important and I always try to keep the content well organized. This concept of ‘minimal’, or ‘minimalist’ is about showcasing the content rather then the design.
Also, you may notice the diffrent approach to the home page. By default I’m listing excepts from the last 2 entries. Underneath there are links to the last 10 posts. The new addition is the “Recently Noted” section. This is just a compliation of links that I add while surfing the internet. If something catches my eye as cool, I’ll post it there.
I’m going to keep this thread active for all redesigns. That way I don’t clutter up real content. Feel free to leave comments.
Adrian Alvarez> Yes, XHTML and CSS. Should be standards compliant.
NO-TEC> I think you are viewing it in IE 6.0 and thus dosen’t look as good as it should. Switch to Firefox!
Douglas Peters> Yeah. I noticed that too. I tried playing around with a workaround for IE 6.0 but gave up. I’m probably going to make an alternate version with no roll over for it.
Some of you have email from me. Check!
I like the design. Time to get the content going too!
Looking great. What is the links section at the bototm? Is that where you’re going to point to others sites?
And what happened to your movie review website that you had months ago?
Not bad Ask, not bad. Enable comments on more posts.
Hey Ashutosh I sent you an email regarding sale of this site. Details are inclosed. Let me know if you are intrested
Best word to describe it: Cool!
Hey Ashutosh!
The site looks really nice. See – I’m only a week late in responding :P
Cheers!
Kirupa
Beautiful. I sent you an email also. Read, Forest, Read.
fresh. clean. so fresh so clean.
From Vortex – Redesign looks good. I use to use MovableType myself until they started charging and I discovered pMachine.
Very nice. This definetly is minimalist.
Cool site. You really are a dork. Your description of yourself fits you perfectly. Show me how to make a blog sometime. And finish the rest of the pages.. actually just the photos. See ya : )
I’m not a huge fan of this new one. Some of the ones you’ve had in the past have been marginally better.
If blog’s were’s retarded, i’d say it looks good.
Nice job on the dash / cpu. Love the custom installs.
looks great like the layout
wish i could be mine.. =0
I really love the site. Extremely well designed and great layout. I also agree with your other article about the standards complicance. I would comment about it there but apparnetly comments aren’t acitvated there. I’ve been designing most of my newer sites in CSS even though they are not nearly as sofisticated as yours. Check out my site sometime, take care dood.
Hey Ashutosh, probably don’t remember me. We had a summer school class togehter at UCI a few years ago. Haven’t talked to you in a while yet I’ve been ocassionally reading your blog. Don’t ask why. I really should just message you on AIM or call you up?. Put your photoblog back up. I used to use some of your photograhy as my desktop wallpaper! Don’t you feel flattered? You should!
Hey ask,
Long time man. Good too see you back into webdesign. I hope this time it’s back for good. Work on my end is going great. Great new layout. I’ve always been a fan and a huge advocate of moving to CSS based websites. This is an perfect example how how effective and stylish CSS can be when used well.
One problem I noticed is that the roll over images don’t work in IE. When I opened in Mozilla works flawlessly but in IE it dosen’t. Howerver your CSS does pass the validator so it isn’t your code, just that IE isn’t up to par on CSS standards. Perhaps you’ll have to write up a work around? Don’t know it looks decent in IE but great in Mozilla.
When you come by Chicago drop me a line. We have to meet up
Great layout. Is this valid XHTML and CSS? What are you using to power this? I love the new philosophy ask.
I just answered my own questions. Yes, yes and MT. I got ahead of myself there
i like the header and the article enders. i hate the the dotted lines for links, how the images are displayed, waste alotta space on the right, just causea the menu on top-right. but overall its neat
This site is brilliant. I like simplicity, better yet I love it. There is no reason for you to need flashey flash if it doesn’t fit the reasoning for the site. It’s also great for older laptops like mine. I pretty much dont even look at my own site with flash cause it runs terribly on my lappy. Hoewever, there is still a sense of of design here and there is no sense of it being bland. Things load quickly and I’m reading the content faster than I am worrying about why my gfx card sucks. I dont know too much else to say about it. Everything runs smooth, eveyrthing is clean and well placed and I dont have any complaints about it. Simply put, it’s simply good. Good job.
Pretty fucking cool, Ashutosh. Remember me from UCI? We took that calc class over the summer. How’s Indiana treating you? Did u adjust fine to that cold weather?
Nice as usual.
Awesome