I am just one little peon mashing on a keyboard. Don't take anything here too seriously. Danielboyle.net is my own personal playground. This is my blog. You can email me at dan @ this domain.
I mentioned back in the DVD rant that I love Handbrake.
I failed to mention that Handbrake's Icon is hideous. I can't understand for the life of me why it's a bad clipart version of a pineapple next to a cocktail. Tom Stoelwinder released a replacement icon a while back, downloadable here - a temporary link is at the bottom of the comments section, as his real site has been down for a while.
In the previous entry, I mentioned how I was going to start redesigning my site, and showed the current state of things. Now, I have to go and do that 2 or 3 more times. In the real world, you never show one design, and run with it - always 2 or 3 comps, 2 or 3 (theoretically) rounds of tightening and revisions, then build.
The first step, which you see below, was pretty much a redesign. No massive changes or anything, just a reworking of the current functionality.
Now? I have to force myself to trash that approach (temporarily at least) and do something else. I've seen some cool things that I want to mess with as far as the actualy presentation and navigation of work.
Previously, I mentioned that I wasn't entirely happy with the current version of my website. Not that it's bad, it could just be better. Specifically, I thought the navigation was boring and overall the site didn't push me at all into anything new.
So, it's started again. Upon the completion of this redesign, I think I'll be on version 12.
Hopefully by then end of this whole process, people will have a better clue as to how I design & work when I have no deadline, no pressure, and complete freedom. Better idea: I'll skip the whining that I'm a hack and the endless self-doubt and constant "can I make that better" and just document where I'm at and how I got there.
