Redesigned (But Not Done)

Well, I finally got around to creating a decent front page design (the blog design is still old and outdated, but I’ll get to that in a second). And in the process I have constantly been thinking about how I really need to start over completely. Making tweaks regularly to the design has left it’s CSS in bad shape, filled with hacks and utterly reliant on a conditional comment for IE6. It should display nicely in mainstream browsers, but it just doesn’t feel up to snuff to me. I would never dream of sending code like this to a client, so why am I letting it slip on my own site? The answer is simple: time. My personal site does not get priority over anything, and a wholesale redesign takes a large chunk of my time.

Assuming that I wish to spend the time needed to improve the quality of my code, I am left with two choices: recode the current design from scratch or start the design from scratch. Both have some positives; the feedback on my current design has been mixed (mostly due to the disjunction of the name Northlander and the fruit scheme) and I did the concept for this design over 2 years ago, so it feels very old.

The blog design will probably get updated whenever I do one of the two options. So, should I keep this design, or develop from scratch?

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