Ongoing design work for my websites cunabula.io and cunabulapress.com
I originally put them together in 2011 but I never finalised some of the details of the design and there was a fair bit of hacky code to get them to look the way I wanted. Now I want to be working on them again, or more specifically showing work through them, so I have to get them in a more polished state.
All that would be fine but they were originally put together with a float and percentage-based layout and now we have grid and flexbox, so I'm taking the opportunity to completely overhaul the underlying code rather than just finish them off from where I left them.
Version_1 is all the code that runs the old (current) version of the site.
Version_2 is the first stab I had at a grid-based redesign.
Version_3 is the rewrite of that fixing my beginner's mistakes with Version_2.
Mistakes like, I wanted to put rules in the grid gaps but thought you couldn't, so instead of using grid-gap I used padding on pretty much everything. Then after almost a month of working on the redesign I suddenly thought 'I wonder what would happen if I used negative margins?' Because I'm an idiot.
So, Version_3.
Version_4 is a ground up rewrite (well, cherry-picking some of the more structural bits) started in December 2021. Why?
- Because I didn't document all the code and I can't easily remember what a lot of it does so updating the site is annoying.
- Because I looked at the site a couple of days ago and something's borked along with one of the plugins and ... see 1 ^.
- Because during lockdown I took up photography in a big way to try and stop myself going mental and at the end of furlough the company I worked for 17 years closed its doors so a fresh start seems appropriate as I plan to work for myself full time.