Nur Ahmad Furlong

Tag: nomad-one

  • A sniff at a nomad-one redesign

    Being snowed under for way too long as meant that some of the initial elements I wanted to add to the previous re-design of this site were left out. To be honest the design hadn’t lived up to my expectations form the very begining and has some serious usability problems as well. Having lived with version 4 of nomad-one.com for some time now I think a re-design is definitely way overdue. After pondering over where to start for a while I made a few notes ad a few sketches and dove straight into some look & feel mocks in Photoshop. This time I’m planning to develop something which interprets the nomad concept alot more literally, hopefully with a bit of a digital feel in part.

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    I’m still at wireframe stage but would appreciate some feedback from anyone out there with regards to the little mockup above and also how you think I should improve on my site based on the current design & layout.

    So I need to know about:

    Colour, Graphic Elements, Layout, Usability, Readability, Functionality and last but not least, Content, the area I think probably needs to most focus.

  • nomad-one.com nominated in SA Blog awards – Vote for me!!!

    Today just keeps getting better for me, my blog has also been nominated in the category Best Blog about Design in the SA Blog Awards.

    Thanks to all those who nominated me, much appreciated, though the guys I am competing with make it really difficult to get past this point.

    So give me some help and vote for nomad-one.com in the SA Blog Awards Now! http://www.sablogawards.com/2008/

  • Finally a new face to nomad-one.com

    It’s a proud moment for me to have flipped the switch on my new theme for nomad-one.com. Though I’m still ironing out a few bugs and need to fix up one or 2 visual elements, my impatience has just got the better of me and I had to go live with this today.

    I’m hoping you guys will get involved and let me know what you think as well as point out any kinks there might be which I have missed out.

    I’ve done tests in a few of the latest browsers and all seems well, though I think I was pushing it to expect IE 4 to have a clue what to do with this layout. This theme has Small Potato’s Wrath theme as it’s basis though you would never be able to tell that at a glance. Small P still has some of the best free themes out there so I made use of his expertise as a springboard for this one.

    I wanted my new theme to be based on sandbox with it’s rich semantic markup and dynamically generated classes for styling freedom.

    So tell me what you think so far and if you’ve managed to find any mistakes, which I’m sure there are. A few of the links might not be working so bear with me as I patch up a few things.

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