Website redesign shock!

I’m getting married in two weeks and then I’m going on my honeymoon for a fortnight, so things are pretty busy hereabouts, and I’ve not had the time to concentrate on the website that I’d normally hope to have. To be honest I’m not even thinking about it at the moment: I’m concentrating on stuff like whether the band will have a bar tab at the wedding reception (answer: probably) and whether there’ll be enough taxis to take everyone back to the hotel afterwards (answer: probably, again). I’ve written a couple of news items there announcing what’s essentially a month’s hiatus.

Imagine my surprise then when a concept for a site redesign popped fully formed into my head!

So now it’s all down on paper: visual structure, navigation design flowcharts, some thoughts on graphics (don’t worry Joe, I’m keeping the typewriter)…

I sincerely doubt I’ll be able to get it done before the wedding, as it’s quite a bit more complicated than the current design. Complicated in terms of making it work, anyway. For the end user it should be just as straightforward as the current design, but it will look lots better and hopefully cut down on my frankly appalling bounce rate.

It’s likely that the new look would mean a redesign here, too. Certainly in terms of colourscheme, but also possibly in terms of how the blog actually works. Although having said that, I’m constrained by the blogging software I use, so unless I’m willing to shell out lots more money I might have to leave the guts of the blog the way they are.

Exciting times ahead!