As I discussed earlier, I want to try to make the pente.org homepage simpler for new players, in order to get them to try the site and hopefully like it enough to come back.
Make a simpler front page, sounds easy, but it’s one of those remodeling things that easily becomes a big project quickly. Like when my Mom wanted a new toilet seat and 6 months later we had an entire new bathroom. I would love to change the whole site design, and change from an html table layout to use CSS instead, and also would like a new look and feel. I started to attempt this last week and quickly became discouraged. The changes are just too big, and I am NOT a web designer. Picking colors for me is like writers block. Reminds me of when I go to Home Depot or Lowes and my wife Sarah shows me those little 1″ square paint color swatches. Which do I like better?? I can’t even answer, my mind just shuts down and eventually she tells me to go look at power tools and leave her alone.
So instead I am going to try a more incremental approach. I’m going to stick with the ugly green for now. I’m going to mostly keep the current site the same. I will create a new front page using CSS that sort of looks the same but is much simpler, and with it a few pages to see the pente.org features.
From those small steps I should end up a simpler front page, and maybe provide a starting point for a bigger site redesign in the future.
And if anyone out there has a good feel for design stuff and wants to help me out picking colors please let me know!
-dweebo