Powered by Panera
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.
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.
[tags]cdevroe.com, james mathias, panera bread, colin devroe, photos, website, updates, wordpress, theme[/tags]
July 1st, 2006 at 11:08 pm
I like the colors of the new design!
July 1st, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Thanks Jake - your’s looks good too man.
July 1st, 2006 at 11:13 pm
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.
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:01 am
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.
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Looks great…..wish I had friends that new something about design and could help me out.
July 2nd, 2006 at 8:13 pm
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.
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:30 pm
James, thumbs up yo!
Colin, coming here finally paid off
July 3rd, 2006 at 2:26 am
Looks great! Much better than your previous “design”. ;P
July 3rd, 2006 at 6:26 am
Thanks everyone. More to come.
July 3rd, 2006 at 7:28 am
Colours are great and like the layout. Nice and clean too which is always good.
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Looks great as usual!
July 4th, 2006 at 7:24 am
I like the use of colours and the clean crisp feel.