October 16, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I was poking around my archive of posts (it's nice to occasionally look back and review what you thought about various topics in the past), and one thing caught my eye: the current design of my site has been live for about fifteen months. For me, that's actually quite a long time. The previous design lasted for five months, and the design before that lasted for eight months. So it's been around for awhile, yet I have no intention to redesign it again anytime soon. After more than a year, I'm still quite content with how the site looks. I've made a few small tweaks over time, and I'm sure I'll continue to do so, but the basic look isn't going anywhere.
I think it's the simplicity of the design. It has a bit of a unifying style to it (specifically: the colors gray and red and the font Helvetica), but then it pretty much just gets out of the way of the content. I like it.