DEVELOPER DIARY: Redesign and Performance
By coonce 16 Comments
We've been knee deep in redesign goodness the past two and half weeks and we're almost there. I think we're looking at about another week worth of work before we get GiantBomb to a state where we feel comfortable launching the redesign and I have to say it looks absolutely brilliant. Dave did such a good job rethinking the design and layout of the site I for one cant wait to start using it live.
What we've been working on:
Dave
- Dave's been leading up the redesign effort from the design and css side. He really did a masterful job blending the design patterns currently employed on the live site while streamlining and highlighting the most interesting information on every single page. You'll see what I mean when you take a look at our new game pages.
- He's been css'ing up a storm lately and is moving on to the Profile pages this weekend.
Sean
- I've been spending the past two weeks helping Dave get at some of the new data we're floating at the wiki level.
- I've also been going through and making a bunch of performance tweaks all over the site. I've really been focusing on trying to make use of memcached where possible.... we're surprisingly not using it in very many places yet - but as we continue to grow this is going to be more and more important.
- I'll be moving on to profile stuff next week.
Andy
- Andy's been working really hard on the html parser he launched earlier this week. There are a few kinks he's working out - but the end result of this feature is a huge win for the site.
Ethan
- Ethan has been charging so freaking hard on our new image gallery tools its crazy!!! You guys have to see this stuff to believe it -- its all this crazy drag and drop image management and it will blow your mind. Every time I update and look at the image stuff I am simply stunned.... its getting to the point where Dave can design anything and Ethan can make it work in javascript. Brilliant.
So like I said, we're all very hard at work on the redesign and we're really trying to get it out as soon as we can. Hope everything is going well w/ you guys -- can't wait to drop the new site on you dudes!