{"id":4111,"date":"2014-12-21T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2014-12-22T08:08:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:08:54","slug":"redesign-4-for-techory-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/redesign-4-for-techory-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Redesign #4 for Techory.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4119\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/techory-screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4119 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/techory-screen-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Techory Screenshot\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/techory-screen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/techory-screen-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Techory v4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here we go again&#8230; It&#8217;s been about five years since the last redesign, so I figured it was probably about time to try again. A lot has happened on the web in the past five years. The new design should hopefully catch a number of new trends and technologies available for websites. Like usual, I felt the design was &#8220;done enough&#8221; to launch, but there will likely be some rough edges that still need to be sanded off. I&#8217;ll be getting to those as I run across them. I&#8217;ve got a few new ideas for things as well that will be rolling out over the next few weeks and months. Here are some of the updates I&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Responsive &#8211; The site is finally responsive (yay!), so it will actually be usable on a mobile phone.<\/li>\n<li>Sidebar &#8211; I cut down on the massive sidebar that used to live on the site. I looked at trends and traffic for the plethora of items I had in that sidebar and cut it down significantly.<\/li>\n<li>Footer &#8211; A few of the items I cut from the sidebar now live in the larger footer on the site (but not all of them).<\/li>\n<li>Portfolio &#8211; This page has been updated with an easier to view\/use listing of stuff I&#8217;ve made.<\/li>\n<li>Photos &#8211; This still need to be updated with the new design, but it&#8217;s not going away. I&#8217;ll get to that eventually. I&#8217;m still pulling my latest mobile photos to the site sidebar to add a little color and an interesting changing feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In creating this new design, I starting digging through the design path this site has taken over the years. I originally launched techory.com in August of 2004. I was able to dig up screenshots of all the previous design to provide a trip down Techory.com memory lane.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4111 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v1-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4112'>\n\t\t\t\tTechory v1\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v2-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4113'>\n\t\t\t\tTechory v2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v3.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v3-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Techory-v3-125x125.png 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4114'>\n\t\t\t\tTechory v3\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again&#8230; It&#8217;s been about five years since the last redesign, so I figured it was probably about time to try again. A lot has happened on the web in the past five years. 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