More on the project with the site redesign

After a discussion on ubuntuforums.org, I decided to follow as many of the advices I was given as possible. I have prepared a new header image; the .jpg seemed a bit better than the .png one to me, and it was a bit smaller in size as well (23 vs 34 kb). Here it is:



Also did some other minor changes (fonts, etc). More to come, but later.

The redesign of the website seems complete to me

So, a complete redesign of the website was made, absolutely from scratch. For the header I used a part of a GPL'd picture from gnome-look.org. The colour scheme is from colourlovers.com. All other stuff/design is by me - created in a text editor, tested in Firefox 3+/Opera 9.64+/IE 7+ on Windows and Linux - and on all of these browsers it looks ok to me.

I'm still performing some minor improvements, but I think this is what it will look like from now on.

This is how the old design looked like:


I felt absolutely nothing wrong with it, but I wanted to create one by myself. Also, the newer one seems to be more W3C-validator-friendly (about 70 errors vs over 1000 for the older design - and almost all of these 70 errors come because of the upper banner that blogspot.com puts on every website in their domain - hopefully one day I will learn how to fix them ;]).
As well as the newer one: