A New Lick of Paint

So I've been playing around with a new design for this site for a couple of weeks now, and it's finally to the point where I think it's good to go live.

After updating the design history page recently, I got all nostalgic for the 2020 version of this website. I loved the design of it and the way in which it used emojis as icons. It was just a really fun design.

This site in December 2020

After playing around with different designs for the new version of the site, and even emulating the old site almost perfectly, I came to the realisation that I actually prefer the sidebar layout I already have.

So instead of trying to emulate that 2020 version, I decided an iterative update of the existing design was in order.

july-2025-light

july-2025-dark

This new version is still using a sidebar (albeit a little wider now), it still has a brutal aesthetic, and it’s still content focussed. But there’s a few things I’ve changed, some of which are more obvious than others. Here’s a list of some of the changes I’ve made:

There’s lots of other little improvements too, and some that I still need to make, but for now I’m happy with the new design.

What do you think?

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