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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Turning the Page on Another Virtual Chapter: Time For a Website Revamp
Life is like a book of infinite chapters with everyone reading at their own pace - we're not who we were yesterday and won't be on the same chapter next week, we're all on the same journey, we progress.
Time for a change. This site and blog was initially directed at hiring managers, it worked great, the human resource teams thought the website was great. It successfully demonstrated creative potential, communication skills, dedication, and so on, but that was 3 years ago. Today my audience has changed (has become more developer centric), but the growing pains of yesterday linger.
So over the next couple months I plan to revamp this site to better represent my current state and anticipated professional direction.
Site update road map:
Transition from a showcase / superficial / professional type site to a more personal / how-to / community based / professional site
Keep it simple
Replace all the ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) widgets with hand coded
JQuery
or
Scriptacolous
JavaScript components
Drop the Home landing page, replacing it with my Journal / Blog
Drop the Professional Development, Resources menu item
Drop the Professional Development Landing page, redirect to Reviews
On the Contact page:
Remove the lengthy explanation on why I'm using a Captcha
General Site Design
Replace all HTML images with CSS images
Design a new logo
Design a new color scheme
Switch the CSS design from a fixed width layout to a liquid layout
Since my last name is hard to remember I'm considering www.adamdotcom.com as my primary domain name, what do you think?
Any recommendations are welcome!
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