Hellchick

It was about time the site got a makeover, and given that I'm employed in a job that requires graphic design skills, it seemed a shame to let my own site sit around looking like it was still wearing tab collars and bellbottoms (okay, before bellbottoms came back to be cool again).

Now you guys can finally see what it is I've been working on behind the scenes here, and I hope you like it. Not everything is finished yet, and in fact many things are still in transition. But given that most people are here to read my blog I thought that I could work on finishing up the rest of the site and make most of it live. You may find a broken link here and there or a page that hasn't been converted over to the new design. Don't worry...it'll all be taken care of soon.

One of the main changes is that I've finally, finally created a damn Hellchick logo. You'd think after all these years of being know as (drumroll and jazz hands) HELLCHICK I'd have had some kind of semi-corporate identity a long time ago, but alas, it took me wanting to promote my knitting of all things to finally spur me into making one. So yes, all of the graphics and the design of the site I created.

Another new thing you'll see is some of the knitting and other hand-made stuff I've created featured to the left. It points to my Etsy shop where you can buy some of the stuff I've made. I'm actually hoping that with the first few items I sell (eventually) I can buy myself a Wii or a 360. Cross your fingers.

I'll update more as I add things, and I apologize in advance for the Internet Explorer 6 users among you...things may stay broken for you a little longer as you're actually the minority visitor here. But most of it should still be pretty functional. The worst you should see are a few broken graphics here and there because of IE6's inability to handle transparency.

I plan to use this redesign to fiddle around with AJAX, implementing some custom layouts to highlight either knitting content or gaming content, depending on your preference.

So feel free to let me know how you feel about the new design. Just bear in mind that this is more of a beta version as I roll it out and fix the last few things left to do.