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You may notice that my web site has some new digs. Something that is probably obvious to you, is that I am not completely done with the home page, but the improvements that the theme brings to the table are too valuable not to launch it just a bit early.

One of the biggest complaints I’ve had since launching cdevroe.com was that there was no clear navigation between the main areas of the site. I was one of the complainers myself.

On Friday I decided to take a trip to Panera Bread to soak up some free wifi and some grub. I did this to get a slight change of scenery, and to focus on finishing what was the core of this redesign. The changes you see may not seem very extensive, but most of the changes will end up going rather unnoticed until I actually unleash each and every feature of this theme. Its current incarnation is not quite as robust as its final one will be, which will be released incrementally.

Colin at Panera Bread stuffing his face

Me eating a panini at Panera Bread

Panera’s atmosphere is actually fairly conducive to GTD. So I was able to pump out a fairly good portion of work in the amount of time it took my wife to do some shopping.

Credit for the small, yet fantastic, adjustments to the theme go to James Mathias who sacrificed some of his weekend for me. It is definitely nice to have friend that is willing to give you some of their well earned time off. Thanks a lot James – I owe you one.

Monday, July 3rd, 2006 – My site now validates as valid CSS and XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

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12 Comments

  1. Posted July 1, 2006 at 11:08 pm | Permalink

    I like the colors of the new design!

  2. Posted July 1, 2006 at 11:09 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Jake – your’s looks good too man.

  3. Posted July 1, 2006 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

    Nice site design Colin. I can’t wait to see what’s in store. I hope to visit the Panera shop in my area. A place that serves coffee and bread in a warm enviornment sounds like heaven. I need to get a MacBook though. If I brought my POS Dell laptop, I would be humilated.

  4. Posted July 2, 2006 at 1:01 am | Permalink

    Panera is sooooo awesome.

    I visited there and got food nearly every day in the winter until i ran out of money, and then i went just for the wireless =)

    it is a very attractive place to get things done.

  5. Posted July 2, 2006 at 5:21 pm | Permalink

    Looks great…..wish I had friends that new something about design and could help me out.

  6. Posted July 2, 2006 at 8:13 pm | Permalink

    Hey Colin, No problem, once I get the time to get in and really get going, we’ll be rolling, and no problem helping you out, it was my pleasure.

  7. Posted July 2, 2006 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

    James, thumbs up yo!
    Colin, coming here finally paid off ;)

  8. Posted July 3, 2006 at 2:26 am | Permalink

    Looks great! Much better than your previous “design”. ;P

  9. Posted July 3, 2006 at 6:26 am | Permalink

    Thanks everyone. More to come.

  10. Posted July 3, 2006 at 7:28 am | Permalink

    Colours are great and like the layout. Nice and clean too which is always good.

  11. Posted July 3, 2006 at 9:17 pm | Permalink

    Looks great as usual! ;)

  12. Posted July 4, 2006 at 7:24 am | Permalink

    I like the use of colours and the clean crisp feel.

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