Dan Keen Research

Another site redesign, because I clearly don't have any other work to do... Kind of funny background behind this design. I had been reading Gruber's posts on typography and design so often that it made me realize how hideous my site was. I brainstormed for a while, and then sat down and sketched out a few designs, finally settling on one that took queues from my favorite sites but was uniquely mine as well.

So what happened? This looks incredibly generic, no? It is. As I was coding it up, the design evolved into something a bit more simple and fluid. It still definitely needs a fair amount of tweaking - sections aren't divided as nicely as I would like, for instance, and it probably looks like hell in browsers other than Safari.

So my apologies, Señor Gruber, as this may seem like a blatant rip-off. However, I do not consider myself a hack with this design for the following reasons:

• I coded it myself
• I like having a menu on the left - the human eye can read text on the right far easier than on the left.
• Things feel fairly balanced the way it is now. Perhaps that is just because I read Daring Fireball every day and am thus expecting this balance, but whatever the reason, it seems to work.
• It can't be a rip off if I use a serif font, can it?

I just have to remember not to use footnotes. I use them normally, but it might seem like a direct copy if I were to start doing it here too...

Just need to finish migrating over the old posts, comments, other content, allow viewing of older posts than the last N, and allow commenting... and I will be done!

-- perhaps too much gray?