Redesign 2010

It seems that re-designing the WaGooh website is becoming an annual event. Each year the web and browser capabilities are growing at an astonishing rate. Because of that, it’s an exciting and challenging job to keep educated on all the cutting edge web design techniques. I love learning and I can’t help but get the urge to implement some of the great things that I have learned this year into a new design for my company.

The last couple of years has brought about a major increase in the use of the Jquery library. Jquery is a great tool for web developers as it allows us to make websites far more interactive. I have utilized many Jquery techniques throughout the redesign including a carousel on the homepage and throughout the portfolio pages, rotating functions for the testimonials and lightbox features throughout the entire site.

I chose to take the design quite a bit brighter with a yellow gradient background. Maybe it represents how much I’ve missed the sun this year as it has been a gloomy one here in Oregon. I made up for that in the colorful, bright colors throughout the website. What can I say, the child in me LOVES color.

The redesign also includes the use of some CSS3 property’s including border-radius and box-shadows. Most browsers have some level of support for CSS3 and it is rumored that Internet Explorer 9, being released next year, will finally begin to support it as well. That is a very exciting thing in the world of a web designer as it translates to more customization capabilities & faster page load times as we won’t be forced to rely as heavily on images.

So without further ado here is a side by side of old & new.