Remi Andre

So the new SFB launched, and oh so happy we all are!

In terms of design I went in a very different direction than where I mostly have been going lately, and definitely went for something other than the (dreaded jargon coming up) Web 2.0 look. While I’m decidedly into clean designs — this site definitely follows those principles — I wanted to do something that looked a bit more fun and, I suppose, “messy” this time around. Too many sites takes themselves too seriously, and I really wanted to get away from that.

The challenge was to not just maintain the ease of navigation from the previous design, but both make it easier to navigate and adding new features to the site. While there are still some tweaks I want to add to the navigation, I think everything works fairly well as it is. Plus I got to add my favorite Buddha to the design!

Other than that… Most of the rounded corners are done in the CSS, which, of course, means everybody’s favorite browser, Internet Explorer, will just display squares. But really, with a site that on most days get only about 150-200 unique hits where less than 25% use IE… I’ll just go with the Better Taster browser.