Were you expecting something else? Perhaps something dirty, grungy, and a little more meaganfisher.com-centric? Well as you can see, that’s not happening here. I realized recently that the internet needs to be a little more Owltastic, and dammit if I don’t do it who will?
There’s lots of reasons why I wanted to redesign the old site. For one, nobody knows how the heck you spell Meagan – is it Meghan? Megan? Meaghan? And my last name is tricky too! People like to throw in the odd “c” here and there, thanks to those freakin’ Fischers trying to get fancy. Additionally, my style has changed so much since I did the design for MeaganFisher.com that I could barely stand to look at it anymore – hence the abandoned, creepy, Children of Men air that has hung around it for the past couple months.
It’s not that it was bad; well, actually, yes. It was. It was hard to read, the markup was written in a hurry and not my best work, and the navigation got lost amongst all the elements I tried to squeeze in. I needed something simpler, cleaner, brighter, friendlier. Basically, something a little more Owltastic™.
This new design is still very much a work in progress, and will probably be tweaked quite a bit over the next couple weeks. If this were a site for a client I probably would hold off on launching it after a 10-cups-of-coffee-fueled-all-nighter, but for some reason I’m just buzzing with excitement at the moment and couldn’t wait. If you’re using Safari or Firefox and you come across any layout wonkiness, broken links, etc. please be a doll and drop me a line. If you’re using that other browser, please upgrade, or just know that I’m working on supporting you and will do it as soon as I can.
So there you have it! Welcome to Owltastic, expect to see some new content on the way soon, and please do feel free to post feedback in the comments. Don’t worry about ruffling my feathers, I can take it.
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Woot! Or should I say, Hoot! This is a great redesign.
I especially like the small caps / lowercase-italic headings. Also the Owltastic in the Tubes section on your About page is great. It’s the small things that make me happy.
What’s the typeface in the heading (i.e. “Owltastic”)?
Jason Robb