Minor Design Updates to webnelly.com

While it's not a full site redesign, it does feel better than what it was before.

I started by moving the site navigation up to the top and be horizontal rather than vertical. I started to play around with having the logo overlap the navigation a little, which led me into doing absolute positioning in CSS (of which I hadn't tried out very much). The end result took some tweaking, but I'm happy for now.

Also, to help fill out the horizontal navigation, I added two more sections that I'm expanding on. The first is Projects, which is going to feature details of the various projects I've worked on in my professional (corporate) career. This will be set up to contrast on the technologies side with what's listed in the Portfolio section, which features the personal sites I have worked on in my spare time.

The second new section I'm working on is the Technology section. This section will feature many of the technologies I use in my personal sites (to start) and provide some insight and examples of how I implemented them. They're not targeted to be full blown tutorials or anything like that (as if I have that kind of time), rather more of just an overview and inspiration for anyone else interested to want to learn more.

These sections look a little (or a lot) empty right now, and will take some time and commitment for me to get around to updating it all, but I'll get to most of it eventually.

If you're reading this, you can probably tell I updated the look and feel of the blog to match the new changes to the site design as well. If it's also your first time reading here, you probably didn't notice how blank it was before. :)

That's where I'm at with updating this site for now, short of adding all that content to the new sections. Time to spend my efforts elsewhere.

Website Previews in Portfolio Pages

One of my todo items for the Ka'anapali Dreamin' website was to feature other websites in the Reviews section. As part of that, I wanted to include a way to include a preview of the site I'm reviewing.

I came across websnapr. It's just a very simple site that lets you enter in a URL and it generates an image in one of various sizes. To test it out, I used it to add previews of my own sites at webnelly.com. You can check it out by viewing one of the site pages here.

New webnelly.com blog

Welcome to the new webnelly.com blog.

I'm putting this new blog together to keep tabs on all the new developments and changes that I'm making to my different sites, as well as some of the technologies and techniques behind them. It will also serve as somewhat of a change log for each site, since a few of the older sites that I maintain have gone through so many different updates and changes over the years, it's too hard to go back and write up everything that's gone into them.

At least this way, with this blog growing as my sites do, the history and growth of those changes will not be lost.

Thanks,
Kris.