Pain in the Tech redesign

August 13, 2007 / Filed under: Design, Web Development, Web Sites

Andy Atkinson launched the newly redesigned Pain in the Tech over the weekend.

The most difficult challenge had to be migrating from a Drupal-based system to a WordPress-based system, while keeping embedded images, comments, and categories intact. I can't imagine it was easy.

I'll be curious to hear his thoughts on this.

The appearance is a drastic update from the old, blocky, centered look. Now there's much more white space, which promotes a clean, unconfined look.

The use of all CAPS for certain headers has never been a favorite of mine, but it works well, with minimal distraction surrounding the headlines.

Also noticeable is the lack of the old brand logo, although the new WordPress theme acts as a brand in itself.

UPDATE: Quick notes from Andy on the redesign:

The original blue/orange color scheme will be retained.

... The current black and white theme is temporary.

I guess I was critiquing an "interim design."

Comments/Mentions

# Andy at 8/14/2007 7:12 am cst

I just threw the IAMWW Wordpress theme on there for now because it has the layout I'm looking for. Ideally the website would be re-launched at 100%, but that just doesn't work for my schedule, so it will have to be bits and pieces. The articles are intact. I like clean designs too and would like to keep it clean. I'm still working on getting small database migration issues resolved, such as showing the correct number of posts per category, showing the correct number of comments per post, etc. Wordpress does not officially support a Drupal>Wordpress migration, though I plan to contact them with the script I'm sharing and see if they would like to use it to develop a migrator.