CSSquirrel A look at web development and web design by Kyle Weems

It’s trendy to brand a site redesign as 2.0 (or 3.0, 4.0, etc.), so much so that I don’t think I want to go down that path. But as of Monday, October 20, 2008, CSSquirrel is operating under a new redesign.

A major annoyance I had with the previous incarnation of the site was that it looked entirely too much like a Wordpress-powered blog.

And yes, it is one. But it’s more than that. It’s become a sort of rallying point for my identity on the massive nest of tubes called the Internet, and I needed it to reflect more than a weekly blog entry about obscure CSS styles. As I’ve been absorbed into more and more social pieces of Web 2.0 (see, even the web can’t avoid that numbering system), I found myself having more and more of a challenge of directing people to various bits of me on the Internet.

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In preparation for making my first attempt at a 100% vector graphics CSSquirrel comic, here’s a vector image test of the squirrel himself:

I may have to put an outline around the guy, I guess it depends on how an assembled comic looks without outlines. It’s a different style, not nessecarily a bad one.

It’s not done, but the new site design is in the process of going up. I know that saying something is a “work in progress” on the web-o-tron is a bit silly of a statement. It is a dynamic media, after all. It is safe to say, however, that the design isn’t quite where I plan for it to be. There should be a cartoon squirrel involved at some point, as well as a number of refinements to margins, fonts, spacing, etc.

Whee.