Website launch
Welcome to our brand new website. Since we only had a splash page up to this point, we decided we needed a proper channel to show the world what we’re doing. Our new online home will function as an outlet for things that we find interesting enough to share with you. This website is not only a portfolio, but will mostly be used as a platform where we share our vision and a way to get feedback on the projects we’re working on.
The concept.
Instead of having a fancy homepage and an even fancy-er blogpost page, we decided we wanted to create something that would work for all the different kind of posts we want to write here. There has a been a lot of writing about certain people who design a new template for every post they write, and we think that’s a great idea. However, having 3 people who want to be writing blogposts on a weekly basis, it just wouldn’t work out for us. Of course we still wanted to be the coolest kids on the block so we came up with a solution. We have several templates for different kind of posts. This way we can keep experimenting with new templates, which can then be re-used over and over again. Right now we’ve made three unique templates, one for ordinary blogposts (focussed on readability), one for projects (focussed on imagery) and one for video (focussed on showing the video in a unique way).
The grid.
It’s 5 columns.
The navigation.
Since most of our visitors will go straight to a blog post anyway, we didn’t really see any use for cluttering the interface with a horizontal menu bar on top or a column full of distractions next to the text. So instead we made a nice little menu that you can always find on the top of the page and should navigate you through the rest of the website.
The technical stuff.
This site runs on WordPress with a custom Lighttpd configuration to speed up things. We’ve made an extensive post on setting up and tuning this here.
If you want to know more about Your Neighbours and what we do, please read our introduction post. Also, we’d love to hear your opinions on the website so feel free to leave a comment or get in touch with us.
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Loving the minimalist approach. I like how you plan to re-design certain posts, but not go overkill due to time constraints. Good oversight.
Also, nice use of the konami code. Comic Sans FTL.
Excellent work.
Really like what you’ve done with the place.
Loving the Konami Code usage
Saw your site linked at Smashing Magazine.
I really nice design.
One glaring error: it should be “a neighbour’s noisy party” and not “a neighbours’ noisy party” since neighbour is singular in the quote. I wouldn’t have bothered with a grammatical error but it was writ in big words on the home.
Thanks Herb, we’ll look into this. Also, we’re revising our website as we speak, so watch this space… We’ll change some things to improve the website.