As I have now joined the Commonknowledge Collective – I thought it would be nice to give the member a little something as a little welcome gift from me. The current site has been up for a while as far as I understand and certainly does looks old in visual style and setup. So I worked on a few facelift ideas and proposed a new design. Though the current site is setup using Joomla (which I am sure is a good platform to use though it seems a bit too heavy for such a small site) – I felt using WordPress would be more effective. I setup a online demo to show this new setup and I am hoping the cK members will agree.

• keep clean lines from existing design – but ‘revamp’ layout to a more modern style
  using a clean and minimal style to suit the majority of cK members working within the technical side
• keep random image within header
  I know this is a popular feature – including the overlap – but the distortion and quality of images as well as the illegibility of the cK title on top of certain photos persuaded the designer in me to come up with a new approach trying to keep the random combinations but improving – hopefully ;) – on the overall header.
  I edited the images (discarded a few which were too poor in quality or which did not fit the new dimensions) – and set up 5 random images (one of the collections of randoms uses my images as I did not want to move away from the existing categories) – this can be changed, of course…
• create a fluid layout to fill the screen
  this can be a very personal preference – I myself am very fond of fluid and flexible layouts aesthetically and also use them for better usability.
• typography as prominent design element
  …I love the use of larger type for headers instead of using bold, for example….
• colour scheme – strong and vibrant to brighten up the clean lines and add impact
  to keep within a more ‘techie’ colour scheme – I went with the green found in many photos. Using a dark teal – offset with a bright lime green. I know htis is quite strong – but I hope you will like it ;)