Reading Jaz's journal

The upgrade for Netalive went more smoothly than I had expected and I'm glad it's finally done. All in all it took me more time than writing the site in the first place, most of which was used up by the table-less redesign with CSS.

It totally went overboard. At first I just played around with the CSS design, unsure whether it could actually be done. 99% of all CSS designs I've seen on the web were for simple, weblog-style sites: easy to do in CSS because all they are is headline, text, headline, text, etc.

Sites like this are easy to do in CSS because they are document-orientated. But Netalive.org is more of a web application than a set of text documents. Every screen on every page is different.

Back to redesign, at some point I figured I already invested so much work that I should go ahead and redo the whole site with it. I hadn't known how many months it would take then, but with every line I wrote the option of going back moved even farther away.

I don't think many people will recognize the fact that the design they see on the site is completely new and that getting it too resemble the old layout was probably the hardest thing to do.

All in all I'm glad that it's done, and that I did it. It's that warm fuzzy feeling of having done something right, and Netalive.org is now one of few sites that are done right ™.

And that's good.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

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