TECHGEEK.com.au Redesign

TECHGEEK.com.au – a technology blog based in Australia, and which I also own – introduced dubbed “Lights 2″. The new design is HTML5 and CSS3 coded, and was developed with flexibility in mind. This meant that each component was seen to be a block which can be coded in or out whenever necessary. This was evident during the site’s CES coverage, where the live video feed replaced the top featured posts on the home page. Before, a simple redirect to an actual page was necessary.

The design’s flexibility can also be found in the site’s individual sections. TECHGEEK.com.au’s sections include Gadgetlyst, Pwnage and Cupertino Loop – all three integral to the brand with their own separate designs. This design saw each brand utilising the core template but all had their own slight changes in colour – and on what is presented.

Lights 2 also introduced a brand new policy, as I have stated in the introductory post to the design.

TECHGEEK.com.au will only be supporting the latest and the first-previous versions of all major browsers. This means, for Internet Explorer users, we’re stopping support for IE7 and IE6. All users should upgrade to the next version of their browser, because our site will now break any other browser outside what we have mentioned. I understand it may be a pain for some, but because HTML5 is supported in the latest browsers, we’ve had to make this decision.

The design is part of a new series of changes before TECHGEEK.com.au reaches its fifth birthday.